I wonder why religious conservatives are mostly synonymous with capitalism supporters ? I mean arent most religions inherently socialistic ? What makes conservatives support capitalism , despite not being among the rich?

  • kibiz0rEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Basically… because of slavery.

    If you take a look at an indigenous population and decide that both:

    1. They are lazy, because their labor only produces subsistence and isn’t captured as surplus value stored in currency
    2. Their laziness is a moral failing which will doom them to eternal suffering

    …then you have now put yourself in a mental model where you have a moral duty to force that person to work for (your) profit instead of subsistence, in order to save their soul.

    If you have a whole country that thinks this way, they will try to enslave the whole world and feel good about doing so.

    So in a Darwinian way, that mentality is the most “fit”. It’s very uhhh “successful”. And so it propagates.