Can I Be Anti-Capitalist and Keep My iPhone?




The City of God Podcast show

Summary: <p>“It’s easy to denounce the system but it’s harder to recognize that you’re a part of it.”<span id="more-746"></span></p> <p>A poll released by Harvard found that 51% of young adults do not support capitalism. Here’s a serious question for anti-capitalist millenials to think through: Do they have iPhones? Do they like craft coffee? Do they wear New Balance shoes? It is one thing to say that you’re anti-capitalist but it’s another thing to live an anti-capitalist life.</p> <p>If you hold to a binary understanding of gender that is tagged in the public square as right-wing. In a similar fashion, to simply recognize that market exchange happens is to be tagged as right-wing. The free market is not idealogical, though many millennials don’t understand that.</p> <p>When it comes to giving up your iPhone or giving up the foodie delights, which are driven by market exchange, that can be a bridge too far for some. It’s easy to denounce the system but it’s harder to recognize that you’re a part of it.</p> <p><a href="http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-kids-are-all-red-1792631732">The Kids are All Red</a> by Emma Roller</p>