Only Capitalists Have an Abortion.
Your choice if that’s okay. But it’s true.
Capitalism has a clear PR problem. Since it has brought prosperity to modern societies, they now have enough free time to drag it through the mud. You just have to open any magazine or visit a university toilet — and there it is, denounced in red letters: Down with capitalism! The criticism of free trade is selling well. But how fundamentally do these brave rebels really reject the system? Let me put it this way: only capitalists have an abortion.
It’s true that there are some flaws in the property and money system today. For example, do these tiny water bottles for $5 really have to exist if you can now get drinking water from the tap? Should the small apartment in the center of Berlin be this expensive? Don’t simple employees earn far too little?
What one forgets with all these burning questions, however: You get drinking water from the tap, you don’t have to live in Berlin and you don’t have to work as an employee. And you don’t have to live in Berlin-Mitte — you shouldn’t, honestly.
We often understand Capitalism as a system that unfairly distributes an existing limited amount of resources. In fact, it is a system that makes resources available, circulates and produces them. In capitalism there will always be the poor, but they will be rich, compared to the poor who were poor before.
The indignant look at the wealthier for a criticism of capitalism is greed, not despair. It can only come from those who feel entitled to more. »Justice, that’s only when no one has more than me!« It would be much more noble to worry about the poor, but this also is a profitable niche and the intentions become ambiguous once again.
The fact is, you are welcome to flee to a remote forest if you do not want to participate, or to a socialist country if you think the world owes you something. Most do it the other way around, however — and only the well-rooted socialist can completely ignore why.
Now one thing is strange: it is precisely these capitalism critics who often have strange ideas about what ›rights they have over their own body‹. Suddenly the growing baby in her womb is her ›property‹ and the fingers of government should just not reach for it.
Indeed, we can separate the question of whether the state still has the say here from the question whether you consider abortion moral.
But those who have an abortion, even those who use contraception, reveal something about themselves that they might not like. Somebody has to first produce the condom, which you then buy voluntarily.
Unless you are extremely desperate, you will probably see a doctor for an abortion. Oh no, that means that you value competence! In addition, in most cases, the motivation is self-interest. God forbid one acts selfishly! Ultimately, having a child slows your career and comes at high costs. Lord, money rules your world!
Very mean, I know. But capitalism is nothing else. Quality or competence is rewarded, the participants cooperate out of self-interest, and the individual decides how much they want to be content with. Only capitalists have an abortion.
Of course, not all capitalists do, because you can appreciate a system without completely dissolving yourself in it. But the decision to have an abortion is always materialistic to some extent. The decision not to have an abortion is anti-materialistic (unless you’re chasing child support).
Sex without the goal of procreation is for pleasure. There is no right to have sex. So if you want to take the risk of conception, you have to recognize that it is a risk you agree to. No one should be obliged to wash the stains from your sheet any more than you deserve to have the consequences of your actions capped off with pliers.
You should be free to form your opinion about abortion or use contraception if you can. But it will be your admission to capitalism. If that’s OK…
It’s libertarian.
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