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Capitalism ends up acting as an excuse for people. An end to capitalism doesn't make college easier or remove all of life's problems.
I don't think you give capitalism enough credit. Especially using college as your example.
Depends on what parts of college you're referring to. Most of the people here who have been complaining about college tend to focus more on being forced to fit into a collegiate system while living on campus and being unable to. That isn't capitalism causing failure.
I think a strong factor that shaped the problems you describe are a result of capitalist need to make a profit on colleges, as well as the type of education system with standards that were set by lobbyists wanting to create productive workers that will advance capital. I think socialist college would look very different and be a lot less dehumanizing
I think it works both ways. Capitalism is absolutely responsible for virtually all facets of life being awful.
But it’s also used as an excuse that reaffirms hopeless narratives and prevents people from doing helpful things too. You yourself said social groups are not good because capitalism has ruined those too.
I can assure you that if we stay inside and don’t meet anybody there will be 0 resistance.
I don't think you responded to the right comment.
Looking back at the post, I definitely made some poor word choices. I do think social groups are good, but they don't change the fundamentally isolating aspects of our modern society like cars. They're also not a solution when a person doesn't have time for them which is mostly a problem of capitalism.
I want the hopeful narrative that society will be better when we have a successful socialist revolution, we just need to get people on board.