Monetizing everything is inherent in capitalism, though. It’s why the auto companies bought up streetcar lines and tore them out to make people more dependent on cars. Capitalism is not responsible for all mental health problems, but there is a clear incentive to promote it so that the capitalist class can sell services, and it wouldn’t be out of the question to over-diagnose or even help create the conditions to gain more customers.
Monetizing everything is inherent in capitalism, though
nah. there’s “limited capitalism” where only parts of society are monetized, like heavy industries. it’s neoliberalism that monetizes everything. this means that if you want childcare, you pay for it. in earlier decades/centuries, that was done by the wife / community.
So? How is monetizing everything worse than being a tenant farmer whose lord squeezes everything possible from their serfs. There’s nothing unique to capitalism about the poor being exploited.
Monetizing everything is inherent in capitalism, though. It’s why the auto companies bought up streetcar lines and tore them out to make people more dependent on cars. Capitalism is not responsible for all mental health problems, but there is a clear incentive to promote it so that the capitalist class can sell services, and it wouldn’t be out of the question to over-diagnose or even help create the conditions to gain more customers.
Fo example, weight loss drugs
nah. there’s “limited capitalism” where only parts of society are monetized, like heavy industries. it’s neoliberalism that monetizes everything. this means that if you want childcare, you pay for it. in earlier decades/centuries, that was done by the wife / community.
Sure, but the longer the game goes, the more likely capital concentration will lead to what we have now.
So? How is monetizing everything worse than being a tenant farmer whose lord squeezes everything possible from their serfs. There’s nothing unique to capitalism about the poor being exploited.
Nobody said feudalism is better, in fact my post was saying the opposite and using that to make the point that we can still improve things.