basquebromance
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Even more than an economic system, capitalism is a psychological instrument for manipulating and exploiting gullible, credulous, suggestible human beings. It’s about “pressing your buttons”, about working out what makes you tick in order to sell you more stuff. It’s about operant conditioning to control your behaviour. Where religion wants to control you by making you fear God, capitalism wants to control you by making you desire to be treated like a God... while you have the money to buy things.
Capitalism’s task isn’t to make you a perfect person, but merely a perfect consumer.
Capitalism’s task isn’t to make you a perfect person, but merely a perfect consumer.