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      What free market? All I have ever known is corporate socialism. Subsidize business with taxpayer dollars. Regulatory capture to prevent competitors from entering the market.

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        Somehow it’s not socialist when you prop up corporate entities with billion dollar handouts a few times a decade everytime they fuck up but a single mom getting $100 only usable for food because she was let go from her job of 5 years with 10 minutes notice is a communist plot single handedly destroying America.

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          Communist governments do the exact same thing, except if you talk about it they send you straight to the gulag.

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            Lmfao imagine simping so hard you believe nobody goes to jail in the name of capitalism in the land of the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world.

            Or gets taken out.

            Or has their government interfered with or overthrown.

            Nope capitalism is love and freedom 💖 UwU 💖

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            Delete your account and leave society, you’re not welcome ANYWHERE.

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        Hence why our economy is going to shit.

        We need to eliminate the corruption and return to free market principles, not add even more buerocracy that only benefits the Oligarchs.

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      You see all these people out here suffering and still say this? Where in the world can I get what you are taking because I’d love to be able to tune out everything that hard.

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        It’s not that capitalism doesn’t have flaws. It’s that all the other systems so far have had worse and bigger flaws. Regulated capitalism with welfare is the least bad system by a wide margin.

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          This guy gets it.

          The governments job should be to act as referee, ensuring fair and orderly markets. Nothing more, nothing less.

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      It’s the best at creating rampant consumerism and waste in the name of fake numbers going up at the cost of human happiness and fulfillment.

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        Nope, that would be your government interfering in the free market by issuing inflationary fiat currency.

        Inflation drives a spend it or lose it mentality. Crony capitalists love that shit.

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        If you have a better system for the future, let’s hear it.

        And no, a reboot of communism doesn’t count. Fresh ideas please.

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          “If you have a better system let’s hear it”

          any suggestion other than the current system

          “No NO NOOOOO! IT’S NOT CRONY CAPITALISM! WAHHHH!”

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              Just one example, Democratic Confederalism. There are endless possibilities, even within the scope of ‘communism’. To think free-market capitalism is the best that can be come up with is a severe underestimation of the powers of human ingenuity.

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                Finally someone willing to think outside the box! Thanks for posting, this looks like a good read.

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                  That is one of my biggest gripes with political discourse of all varieties, lack of creativity. I admit don’t know enough about the ‘democratic confederalism’ to fully support it, but from what I’ve heard it is compelling, it just comes to mind when I think of the question of capitalism vs communism.

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              Communism hasn’t ever even been implemented, except in small communes.

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          I’d be interested to hear what you think communism is but I digress.

          My better system starts with providing universal healthcare, education and housing.

          That’s it. I want people to not go bankrupt for going to the hospital, not take out huge loans for university education and not have to pay exorbitant housing costs.

          If you think this is fairy land dreams you have no comprehension of how much money is currently being redirected from these very things into the hands of capitalists so they can have a bigger yacht.

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      What makes you say that? As a random example, leaded gasoline existed for 50 years longer than it should have. We’ve known lead was toxic since the Roman empire, and the only reason it was invented was to increase profits.

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        Pretty much the whole world used leaded gasoline and capitalist countries were the first to phase it out. US phased it out relatively early compared to others, Japan was afaik the first to outright ban it in 86. My ex-eastern bloc country only fully banned it in 2002.

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          I recall a significant event that happened to the Eastern bloc not long after countries started banning leaded gas, could it be that the collapse of an entire political system prevented those countries from handling that?

          What does the usage have to do with it? It was invented strictly for profit, and as such, leaded gas was the only thing being manufactured. Cars had to be specifically tuned to use it.

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        Romans died from lead in the aqueducts by the tens of thousands in Pompeii so saying they “knew” is misrepresentative to say the least. They didn’t know why. Do you really need hyperbole to make your point?

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          Before modern germ theory, we thought nightshade killed us because it unbalanced our humors. The why isn’t important, it’s the understanding of toxicity.