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Repost because @[email protected]'s original post got removed from [email protected] for dunking outside the dunk tank

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[–] CorruptBuddha 1 points 2 years ago (17 children)

You can but it's exceedingly unlikely because your own material interest is tied to these things:

People are more complicated then that, you really think this is an accurate point of view?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (14 children)

You ever seen someone get evicted, or get evicted yourself?

That's a landlord showing you how much humanity corroded by those material intersests.

It kills people.

[–] CorruptBuddha 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (13 children)

Two issues I have with what you're saying, this is a generalization being used to judge an individual, and materialism isn't incompatible with being left leaning. Do you not have possessions or income?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Around these parts, when you see the word "materialism", it's being used in the philosophical sense, rather than the common usage.

Materialism is a set of related theories which hold that all entities and processes are composed of – or are reducible to – matter, material forces or physical processes. All events and facts are explainable, actually or in principle, in terms of body, material objects or dynamic material changes or movements. In general, the metaphysical theory of materialism entails the denial of the reality of spiritual beings, consciousness and mental or psychic states or processes, as ontologically distinct from, or independent of, material changes or processes.

Taken from the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/materialism/v-1

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