Graham Priest
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first heard Mar 2020
last heard Mar 2020
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And uh they can be used and abused in the process, you know, exploited, made redundant, given false desires.
Because, you know, if if you're selling something you want people to buy it, so you use this kind of advertising which induces in people
all these kind of illusory desires that if they buy a new pair of shoes or whatever, they're going to be fulfilled or happy, you know, just complete bullshit.
Then have a think about what capitalism has done to the third world and all the sort of people that have been destroyed in South America because of the exploitation of American capitalist countries.
Think about the way that capitalism is driven by a constant requirement for growth.
Growth and we know what happens when economies go into recession, it has very serious effects.
Um capitalism is predicated on constant growth, and you know what is constant growth doing to our environment at the moment?
Um well a lot of people are already suffering from this, but hey, as sure as hell, in the next fifty years, unless something fairly miraculous happens, a lot more people are
Going to suffer.
You know, a lot of the world's coastal area, including South Manhattan, is going to be underwater.
We're going to see mass migration.
We know what problems migration causes.
So, you know, if you start to think about the effects of capitalism, the litany of its disastrous consequences is pretty obvious.
Okay, and I I haven't tried to be systematic about this.
This is just a kind of smorgasbord of some of the immediate things that will come to you.
So it seems to me that there is no Buddhist who could be content with a capitalist system.
It just screws people over too much.
We shouldn't have an economic system whose main aim is the production of wealth, not the happiness of people.
I mean
The point of capitalism is the use of people for the production of wealth, whereas any rational person should think that the point of wealth is the happiness of people.
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