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How capitalism messes up our brains
In-built in the system is the deliberate playing on our fears and insecurity. No wonder we’re left feeling so miserable and conflicted, writes JOHN GREEN

LIVING for so long in a capitalist society, most of us grow up blissfully unaware of how the system distorts our thinking, our behaviour and our general view of life. 

We think that what we experience daily is “normal” but it’s not. 

We have internalised a (im)morality and a set of principles that should be alien to us.

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