• TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Capitalism is why. There was a market for moonshine and high profit margins for the risk.

    Money is usually the motivation

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      2 months ago

      Seems a bit reductive. Everything boils down to money if you’re content to look no higher up the hierarchy of needs.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Capitalism isn’t market forces existing at all.

      Capitalism is directing and manipulating those forces towards accumulation and endless growth, following an ethos of “more is more and more is inherently good”

      I suspect that there would be a shitload more anticapitalist people in the world if everyone was aware that markets and capitalism aren’t synonyms…

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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      2 months ago

      Capitalism is not equal to smuggling or free markets. Capitalism means the private ownership of the means of production, and a market economy is possible under other systems.