I find annoying that they take “X is related to something” as a proof that “X does not actually exist”. I’ll try to explain by a parody:
“Doctors sometimes tell you that you have a broken leg. But why is that a problem? Legs naturally come with different shapes and different conditions. It’s just that capitalism requires you to work, and that sometimes involves walking to places, and a broken leg decreases your productivity. If we could for a moment abandon the mindset of capitalism and productivity, we could easily realize that there is simply no such thing as a broken leg.”
But people would care about broken legs even without capitalism, because broken legs hurt, and because people who have broken legs often wish they could walk and run, even for reasons unrelated to productivity.
Basically, most of their arguments feel like this to me, except instead of a broken leg, insert autism or schizophrenia or Down syndrome or whatever. It is completely irrelevant what the condition does to the person and everyone around them. No no no, you are just brainwashed by capitalism to believe that <insert symptom> is a problem.
I find annoying that they take “X is related to something” as a proof that “X does not actually exist”. I’ll try to explain by a parody:
“Doctors sometimes tell you that you have a broken leg. But why is that a problem? Legs naturally come with different shapes and different conditions. It’s just that capitalism requires you to work, and that sometimes involves walking to places, and a broken leg decreases your productivity. If we could for a moment abandon the mindset of capitalism and productivity, we could easily realize that there is simply no such thing as a broken leg.”
But people would care about broken legs even without capitalism, because broken legs hurt, and because people who have broken legs often wish they could walk and run, even for reasons unrelated to productivity.
Basically, most of their arguments feel like this to me, except instead of a broken leg, insert autism or schizophrenia or Down syndrome or whatever. It is completely irrelevant what the condition does to the person and everyone around them. No no no, you are just brainwashed by capitalism to believe that <insert symptom> is a problem.