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[โ€“] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I would - but what children?
All have already been sacrificed to "the economy and profits", we are waiting for people to be born to immediately sacrifice them bcs we are so much indebted to the great "the economy and profits".

All hail "the economy and profits", may it's economy enslave us, and it's profits get redistributed away from us.

[โ€“] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

For the last couple centuries, Moloch has largely been a metaphor for "the economy and profits".

Here's an example from 1927