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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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Maybe this makes me a bad anarchist, but it truly feels like capitalists are monsters that can't be rehabilitated. Like I really want to believe that everyone can be rehabilitated with enough help, but can we really rehabilitate the few thousand people who are like Epstein in finite time?
I mean I think you make a good critique here.
Even if we can't, should we not try? It's only, as you say, a few thousand. We can spare the resources to keep them locked up/under house arrest/whatever for the rest of their natural lives if we must.
If we must execute people to heal the wounds inflicted by their sheer callousness, then so be it. But I don't really accept the argument that anyone is "irredeemable" without even trying.
Of course we should try, that why I said it feels like capitalists can't be rehabilitated, not that they definitely cannot be rehabilitated and we shouldn't even try.
Yes I'm definitely biased to predict that almost all of the capitalists wouldn't succeed in even attempting to rehabilitate themselves, but I'm absolutely not willing to close the door for rehabilitation either.
Ah ok. That's not how I understood your comment initially, but that's reasonable.