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ziq OP wrote

People aren't inherently anything. Humanity is not good or bad. Every person is an individual, each with different experiences, motivations, traumas. Communism expects everyone to be altruistic. Capitalism expects everyone to act out of greed and self preservation. Neither is true because both are ideologically driven worldviews that attempt to define human nature in order to instruct people how to behave. People are greedy, people are generous, people are kind, people are mean-spirited. Every person in the world is all of these things and more. People are not defined by one single personality trait their entire lives.

Essentially, it's a bad-faith head game, and, to be transparent, I think it's primarily a head game of the privileged.

What better way to engage in bad faith headgames than to accuse me of being privileged for not seeing the world in black and white as you do? For seeing suffering in the world and wanting to understand it, instead of just handwaving it away by yearning for wishful utopian ideologies designed to energize European factory workers from the 1800s?

What it comes down to is that task leadership does not threaten personal autonomy.

The steel mill threatens personal autonomy by poisoning the environment that its inhabitants depend on to survive. By forcing everyone in the area into lifelong servitude in the mill because it becomes the only way to survive, even as it slowly kills its workers and their families.

Again, though, needing to eat with other people to ensure that everyone can eat is not an attack on personal autonomy.

I'm not sure how I said anything resembling that. What are you even responding to?

If I wanted to valorize selfishness, I read Ayn Fucking Rand.

How am I valorizing selfishness by acknowledging that people can be selfish?

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