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Why is individualism a bad thing? (hexbear.net)
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Everytime I here individualism brought up by someone from Hexbear or Lemmygrad, it gets talked about as if it's categorically bad and wrong. Why is that?

This goes against everything I've learned in the states, where we consider individualism a necessary part of being a responsible and moral person, whereas collectivism strips us of our humanity and turns us into subhuman insectoid creatures incapable of thought.

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[–] flan@hexbear.net 20 points 5 months ago

Cui bono? Who benefits from the myth of individualism? We are not really individuals existing in a vacuum, we live together with billions of other humans on this planet. Are you able to choose to pay your landlord? Are you able to choose not to work for your boss? Sure you can choose not to pay a landlord or not work for a boss, but you have to pay some landlord and work for some boss because that's how capitalism works. Your individual responsibility, it turns out, is everybody's responsibility. Except the capital holders. What happens if we suddenly realize we are a collective?