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All modern societies implement brutal exercises in primitive accumulation. Capitalist nations just exported their brutality to the 3rd world. Was that noble of them? I'm not seeing your point. (See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_accumulation_of_ca...)

"Impermanence" is not a religious concept, but the vagaries in these platitudes are. Nobody in a capitalist society can rationalize layoffs. The best we can do is rationalize not thinking about them, which is the purpose actually served by the platitudes. Religion does the same.

An actually scientific perspective would be far more useful and actionable. There is a good book on this topic: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Engels_...



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