• DancingBear@midwest.social
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    1 month ago

    i hate it when I hear people making the claim that it is capitalism that has helped so many people in the world with better quality of life and more opportunities and better outcomes, etc.

    Capitalism is a fucking disease that we need to rid ourselves of, it is worse than Ebola the way it infects our minds with the dumbest shit.

    You know what has made lives better for billions of people? The washing machine and the cotton gin and fucking electricity.

    Capitalism has fought against progress every step of the way.

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      1 month ago

      Capitalism puts greed at the wheel and, naturally, inventions products are churned out, some really useful, some terrible. To make it work, you need to regulate hard to keep the greed from taking over the innovation.

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      Capitalism that is bounded by strong regulations that are consistently and fairly enforced by government (the people) entities isn’t that bad.

      It’s when those regulations get watered down or just removed in the name of “freedom” that we get what we have now.

    • SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works
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      Propaganda conflates industrialization with capitalism continually, obscuring the possibility of any other economic system.