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ive been watching a lot of destiny debates with lefties lately. and my fav part is when, at the beginning, he says "i dont have any principled attachment to capitalism" and then someone's like "we should take resources from rich ppl" and he says "so you wanna steal? that's wrong"
it's very understandable, but the mistake people keep making is thinking that destiny's pragmatic "it just works best" defense of capitalism is the one that really matters, and that if you defeated that, he'd be a socialist. no, he has a moral commitment to capitalism.
ive seen like nine responses saying "umm destiny thinks taxes are good." Sure, but that doesn't make him comfortable morally with the notion of seizing the vast amount of the means of production from the bourgeois. and he's expressed this many times.
the way yall are acting, you think literally every liberal is de facto morally fine with socialism. which, umm. no that's actually not true.
ok this is the clip im thinking of. make of it what you will, but when i hear it, I hear someone starting with a pragmatic defense of capitalism, and moving to a moral one with his treatment of the notion of taking houses. it's about an hour into his noncompete debate
i dont know how ELSE I could see this, besides him considering the notion that taking these houses from the people who own them is wrong on the face of it. i did watch this debate in an insomniac daze tho, so there may be some strange context im not picking up here.
i kinda forgot the whole clipping destiny franchise is about dunks. look, the moral objection to capitalism is really the only one that matters anyway. we're not living in a society that seems primed for some juicy revolution. changes, if they happen, will prob be incremental.
the question, at least to me, is, what's the goal? in a conversation between worker and boss, where do you land? who should have more power, and why should they have it?
destiny WILL say "i dont have a problem with the notion of socialism, in the long term. im not attached to capitalism." and here, im just saying, maybe his relationship to the idea of giving workers more power is more complicated than he lets on.
anyway, i get overly wordy after 5. seeya lol
Ok waking up, I am right. Like come on gang, destiny clearly is viscerally repulsed by the notion of taking those houses. the way he says “what, are you gonna steal them?” In such a scandalized way?
I’m right, it’s the destiny fans who are wrong. thank you thank you.
I’m right, it’s the destiny fans who are wrong. thank you thank you.
