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"I am a shitty human being therefore being shitty must be human nature."

Top logic there lmao. Fucking darwin awards material.

This kind of thinking is what you get when people are unnaturally alienated from the rest of their species by capitalism. They aren't a part of anything greater. Only themselves matter. This is why you see this rabid selfishness where even parents sell the next generation for a quick buck. It's species suicide by greed and It's really sad to see. Hopefully, it can be stopped before it offs the entire species or humans will be a footnote reading "Extinct: Too stupid to work together to ensure the continuation of their species."

From what i can find, this person posts on Ancap, lives in San Fransisco, and is a senior software engineer. Also got scammed by an obvious mlm scheme. Into the he goes.

For example for a software developer - a Senior SWE in the USA can make 150k-500k depending on location and company.

I am a little tired of EXAMPLE JOB being "software developer" when discussing economic conditions. How about "lumberyard worker", or "salad guy at the restaurant" instead for truly assessing how affordable housing should be?

totally agree, not only are some of these salaries only for crazy places like California, but it feels very dehumanizing to people of other careers.

I prefer them when they're mask-off like this. It reminds me we're right about them, and it gives insights into certain things I didn't even think of. I had never considered that their "it's human nature" argument was copium for the moral guilt.

"because of human nature"

Looks like someone tried to respond, and the mods removed the response but left murk's comment up. Fascism is civil enough to stay though.

This freak belongs in an unethical zoo. One where I can throw things at the animals until they do tricks. I would make this one do tricks for me until it dies.

: "Humans are evil by nature..."

: "That's true, so we should suppress our vices, right?"

: "Therefore we should all embrace our evil nature because like....nothing matters man! Let's all go extinct because YOLO!"

: "Sorry, just embracing my human nature."

This is a perfect example of zen fascism as Matt describes it.

The funny thing is that reddit neo liberals are probably mostly in heaps of debt and have negative net worth.

It's human nature to seize upon a unique socioeconomic circumstance of the last century to justify a human nature argument for being a myopic sociopath shithead. I hope you can see that and my giant brain isn't getting in the way.

is too good for this guy

People like this guy is the reason gulags were invented. It's the humane and sensible solution.

I'll leave it to you to decide whether I think of cold war propaganda gulags or actually existing gulags.

We all know what he REALLY means is that HE'S allowed to be a shitty person to enrich himself, but if someone else enriches themselves at HIS expense, then that's an injustice that needs to be stopped.

“We all know we’d exploit someone given the chance”

Honestly this is not even remotely approaching the true perils of neoliberalism. The poster is just evil, but a true believer of neoliberalism is so much more.

The true disciple of neoliberalism believes that free market is above sanctity and it must be protected at all cost, with the involvement of the state apparatus, even if it means that millions of people will die and even more impoverished in the process, because ultimately the free market is the only way that can bring about an optimized prosperity to the world’s population.

Note the difference from Austrian school libertarians, who believe that the state/government should stay out of interfering with the free market. Chicago school neoclassicals believe that the state should be fully involved in protecting the free market, with military, economic and financial warfares, and propping up anti-labor policies around the world to ensure that the sanctity of the free market is well protected.

I mean "the world is going to burn because it's full of stupid selfish assholes like me" is the most honest thing I've ever seen a neoliberal say to their credit

I’m a neoliberal, I’ll kidnap a thousand children before I let this company die

I'd say this is far from human nature

(source: i'm a human)

There should be a system where if you post sociopathic shit like this on the Internet, you should have a big buzzer sound off in your computer and the Halo multiplayer announcer voice should announce that you've lost social credit