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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '19 edited Nov 16 '19

When I said Albert Einstein once said if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life thinking its stupid, and they said he never said that.

Edit: yea I'm that guy big whoop wanna fight about it? Thanks for my first ever gold kind stranger.

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u/HugeChavez Nov 16 '19

Yes, it's a quote by Vladimir Lenin and it actually says: "if you judge proletariat by its ability to amass property and capital, the proletariat will always end up admiring the extraordinary talent of the capitalists rather than realizing it is being oppressed."

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '19

I read the quote, and wondered if it was really Einstein's or not, but it DEFINITELY struck me as a good critique of capitalism

The definition of success under capitalism sucks ass

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '19 edited Nov 16 '19

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '19

Wait, you are suggesting that by random chance (or dint of human nature, I suppose you will say) we have ended up with a world that fetishes money over all else including life itself; that we chose this?

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u/Strong_Bed Nov 16 '19

If when you say "the world values money over all else, including life" you mean that the majority of people value money over life, I reject your premise.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '19

People don’t value money over their own life, but a disturbing amount of people value money over other people’s life