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A Sociology Student on Why Capitalism Feels Wrong

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0:00A: Of, uh, of, uh, oh God, um, so I think one of the other biggest ones would probably be like the globalization of capitalism.

0:16B: Let’s wait a second.

0:19A: Probably be the globalization of capitalism. It, uh, I’ve been mentioning these like power structures Mm-hmm. And capitalism, when it’s spread around the world like this, starts to incentivize people to make money instead of being kind of more human, I think. Mm-hmm. So for example, I’m a sociology student, so I study this kind of stuff a lot. And --

0:42B: A man with some context.

0:44A: And so you, you put these people in these situations where they have to compete with each other. Well, I don’t think humans are meant to be on this planet to compete with each other, you know?

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