• z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    I don’t know. I’m pretty sure the porn industry is pretty capitalist… sometimes to a horrific degree. Porn addicts not being as productive or prolific as they could be is just…the cost of doing business?

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      7 days ago

      It’s a problem for employers who want productive workers. The whole reason capitalists and imperialists care about mental health is that it impacts worker productivity, making them have lower quality laborers. Porn addiction has the added con of redirecting the sex drive away from having kids, who are future workers, soldiers and baby makers.

      Pleasure without procreation creates dysfunction according to the worldview of exploitative ideologies, which is why conservative forces have long sought to discourage sex that isn’t making babies. They only value the machinery of reproduction in society, ignoring any value in sexual activity that they don’t intuitively understand. They hate gays because they think we never have kids, and they hate masterbation because it removes sexual frustration that they exploit to fuel their power.

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        7 days ago

        Totally, but Capitalisn works both ways. If you make money from exploiting others/the planet, you are technically winning at Capitalism. It may not be a smart long lasting strategy at winning (as you point out). Capitalism only cares about controlling people in that it generates revenue. The time period for how long it produces revenue is up to the particular Capitalist, and what you’re describing is a discrepancy on how far out one should look. And yeah, Fascists have a lot longer view of things, which is why you’re seeing them trying to ensure the replenishment of their ranks with fresh bodies, by sacrificing a the very lucrative Porn industry.

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          7 days ago

          It’s more the imperialists and conservatives in general who care so much. Many capitalists also value imperial prestige, even if it fell out of fashion recently. Government elites from China to Saudi Arabia feel similarly