Seems like a lazy answer. We don’t have actual evidence of bribery, and communist societies have also tended to be corrupt. The “price” might not be in non-existent money, but until we live in a post-scarcity society, there will always be stuff someone wants and doesn’t have.
Similarly this seems like it would explain literally any bad judgement ever. In that sense it’s a non-answer, similar to the non-answer of the religious - “god did it.” An answer that explains everything explains nothing.
In this particular case, a judge with fascist tendencies would, surely, be minded to hoard the power they do have, rather than abdicate it, even to a body that, for the time being, agrees with them. Right? That was exactly the thing which I said was bizarre. So in order for your elaboration to elaborate, you need to be able to say why it’s the bigoted tendency which wins over the fascist tendency.
This opinion is unsustainable, and I don’t know how you acquired it.
Remember that your point is that people would not be susceptible to bribery without capitalism. You think you couldn’t bribe someone with a bunch of cows in the first century? You think no-one had a lack of entertainment they could be bribed with?
When capitalism , everyone has a price
Seems like a lazy answer. We don’t have actual evidence of bribery, and communist societies have also tended to be corrupt. The “price” might not be in non-existent money, but until we live in a post-scarcity society, there will always be stuff someone wants and doesn’t have.
Okay, lemme elaborate then:
When racist, sexist, ageist, ableist, bigoted, fascist, everyone is a target.
Similarly this seems like it would explain literally any bad judgement ever. In that sense it’s a non-answer, similar to the non-answer of the religious - “god did it.” An answer that explains everything explains nothing.
In this particular case, a judge with fascist tendencies would, surely, be minded to hoard the power they do have, rather than abdicate it, even to a body that, for the time being, agrees with them. Right? That was exactly the thing which I said was bizarre. So in order for your elaboration to elaborate, you need to be able to say why it’s the bigoted tendency which wins over the fascist tendency.
Scarcity is the result of capitalism exploiting the planet and all its inhabitants
So there was no scarcity before the invention of capitalism? Not of any single thing?
Had capitalism never been instituted broadly, no person would want anything they didn’t have?
uh huh.
Nope,not at a global level and not because of a bunch of greedy idiots
This opinion is unsustainable, and I don’t know how you acquired it.
Remember that your point is that people would not be susceptible to bribery without capitalism. You think you couldn’t bribe someone with a bunch of cows in the first century? You think no-one had a lack of entertainment they could be bribed with?