Flippanarchy

You don't get it bro. Capitalism is awesome, because i'm above in the social hierarchy! Under socialism i would just be a normal peasant.

... What do you mean, it's unfair for everyone else? Fuck'em. ~~/s poes law n shit~~

I have had conversations with my semi wealthy friends about this crap many times over the years.

The best was when I told one of them once that one of the possible solutions to wealth inequality was in instituting a maximum wealth while also providing minimum wealth through a universal income.

His counter argument to that was it would remove all the incentive for everyone to want to amass a fortune for themselves. He argued that if someone limited his wealth, he would no longer be motivated to want to do more ..... but he countered that by trying to convince me that it wasn't all about the money. He said that everyone should be free to get as much money as they want without limits because that is what drives human progress. As well as the usual argument that if you gave free money to people, then they would be less likely to want to do anything for themselves, for others or for society.

All coming from a individual with about a million dollars worth of wealth. Perfectly comfortable for themselves but can't stand to see others with any support because he never got any .... except for his semi wealthy parents who gave him a great start in life.

It's funny because it's true.

people around here like to blame the nebulous concept of "capitalism" for all the world's problems instead of focusing on the actual causes of those problems: billionaires and corporations using their massive wealth to stiffle competition, bribe governments, harm those beneath them for their own entertainment, and otherwise inflate their own wealth even further. What part of this is unique to capitalism? Furthermore, what aspects of communism that are actually beneficial to the common man are exclusive to communism, and couldn't be implemented in to a capitalist system through changes in poliicy?

governments and economies are machines that require frequent cleaning and maintenance. Any government, lacking sufficient care, will decay into fascism. Look at the us currently.

Your listening to a recycle bin? Why a recycle bin?

clears throat

Markets are not evil in and of themselves.

Concentrated capital and poor market controls lead to unfair outcomes.

Markets can be an efficient way of distributing goods, even under socialist structures.

I like to link to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crony_capitalism because without the people who abuse the system, it would be a lot better. We need to close these loopholes, but of course rich people have the money to keep them open or find new ones.

Removing loopholes that the cronies exploit and removing tax havens, etc (other tax loopholes) would (in my opinion) make leave us in a much better state that we currently are in.

We hate crony capitalism not just capitalism on its own I believe.

Edit: hope this isnt recycled

Nah. I even googled it:

Capitalism is an economic system characterized by private ownership of the means of production, where goods and services are produced and distributed based on market competition and profit motives

As such, I have no problems with capitalism. But with sick fucks who think they absolutely need another golden car and a yacht at a price of ruines lives (human and not human alike) - those must be brought to extinction, preferably fast

there's positives from it and negatives. stuff like large wealth inequalities can be easily fixed with progressive tax rates. it all depends on how its done

oh hey i use that same image for my catch-all hiphop playlist!

i love it, but the folks i send it to seem not to enjoy aesop rock and danny brown in such close proximity 😕

I've never seen anyone on lemmy actually defend capitalism.