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[โ€“] kariboka@ursal.zone 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@grue @SamDuede except Orwell was wildly imagining that under communism. The reality is this shit is happening because of free capitalism.

[โ€“] tryptaminev@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago

Orwell was never refering to the economics in 1984. It was a dystopia of an autocratic government in an ever autocratic world, that fully infected and controlled every aspect of everyones life. Whether that is for capitalism, or communism wasn't part of it.

Also free capitalism is an oxymoron. Capitalism is inherently unfree and the less regulated it gets, the more imprisoning it becomes to the normal people.