I’m doubling down on the point made by the previous comment: Capitalism as a system enables that aggregation of power.
I’m not sure what you mean by “advance”. If you mean self-improvement or improving living conditions, that doesn’t have to come with a detriment to others. We can lift each other up. Life isn’t a zero-sum game, if technological advancement is focused on increasing our productivity in order to generate overall prosperity and leisure to pursue fulfilment rather than maximising unsustainable profit and pushing most of us to pursue subsistence while a few become ever more obscenely powerful.
If you mean advancement in a hierarchy of power, then that’s exactly the issue I’m criticising: self-interest instead of solidarity, sabotaging quality of life by pushing us into a rat race of having to do better than others.
I’m doubling down on the point made by the previous comment: Capitalism as a system enables that aggregation of power.
I’m not sure what you mean by “advance”. If you mean self-improvement or improving living conditions, that doesn’t have to come with a detriment to others. We can lift each other up. Life isn’t a zero-sum game, if technological advancement is focused on increasing our productivity in order to generate overall prosperity and leisure to pursue fulfilment rather than maximising unsustainable profit and pushing most of us to pursue subsistence while a few become ever more obscenely powerful.
If you mean advancement in a hierarchy of power, then that’s exactly the issue I’m criticising: self-interest instead of solidarity, sabotaging quality of life by pushing us into a rat race of having to do better than others.