• SethW@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Even if we acknowledge capitalism is responsible for the rising tide of the last 100+ years (and even that is highly situational), it’s obviously not working anymore and without a way to externalize the costs of capitalism to people and places that “dont matter” those tools meant to externalize damage are now pointed inwards and the rewards fail to trickle down. now we’re all losing more than we put in, with that surplus value going only to the owners.

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        2 months ago

        pretty funny how nearly all pro-capitalist notion comes down to “I’m privileged enough to be happy with the status quo”

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          2 months ago

          Considering communism was voted out in fair elections here and noone wants it back, your argument is invalid.

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            2 months ago

            Is the communism that you voted out the Marxist-Leninist, “people’s revolution turned authoritarian state” kind? I’d get rid of that shit, too.

            There are lots of other stands of anti-capitalism (eg, democratic socialism, anarchism) that are probably worth exploring. Even if we stick with capitalism but soften it with socialist policies, that’s still way better than the minimally regulated capitalism we have in the US.

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              2 months ago

              Haven’t seen any proposal that would reconcile incentives of large number of egoistic actors. This sort of thing simply doesn’t exist.