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we had a good run (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Capitalism's natural and unavoidable end stage.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I like to blame capitalism for everything, too, but this has nothing to do with capitalism. Just the US Democracy not being a Democracy

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Ah yes the world richest man and a billionaire president have no financial motives for overthrowing the US gov. Definitely not the fault of the greedy capitalist system

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, but a functioning democratic system does not allow that.

Any power tripping person could overthrow a country for different reasons (like Hitler for example)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Capitalism encourages the break down of the democratic system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Unbridled capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

No, just capitalism is correct. Unbridled or not, the profit incentive and private ownership over the means of production, both of which are intrinsic to a capitalist economic structure, still exist and contribute to systemic oppression.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

By world richest man you mean Putin or Bin Salman?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Pick one it’ll probably be correct anyway

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Capitalism worsens the principal agent problem of representative democracy because it's trivial to bribe representatives, especially now.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

The richest people being the oligarchs has nothing to do with capitalism?