capitalism

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  • monoboy3

    I hear prices for medical goods are rising tenfold as different states try to outbid each other for limited supplier contracts. What the actual fuck.

    https://www.businessinsider.com/…

    • Disaster capitalism in its purest form.monoboy
    • I love when America pulls together as a nation in a crisis.PhanLo
    • Murica that's why.utopian
    • If u dont raise prices with demand u get super hoarders unless u limit and ration. Limit and ration doesn't encourage more suppliers to come into the market
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    • Place though so u will have limited production. A higher price premium drives competition and new production into the sector though. U might not like the price
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    • Increase but don't neglect what it's does to provide. Think ying to telecoms price gateways that spurred invention, competition and drove costs down.
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    • The alternative is forcing firms and haggling on price. For sure they will come in over budget and slow to produce when no one wants to make them
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    • Since their is no incentive. Capitalism 101
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  • sted2

    Money printer goes brrr

  • utopian1

    The everyday price for for can of Lysol spray is about $5- each.

    eBay sellers are selling the same can between $45 to $75 per can plus $8- for delivery.

    https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?…

    #Murica that why

    • Who cares. Let price discovery work. I think there target is like a 10k purse. So fools with plenty of money and no brains
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    • Don't u remember PS4 ni tendo switch and every type of thing sold in demand. Stocks Bitcoin etc. Tell u what I bet price discovery shows its real price
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    • And price discovery has little to do with country... Can have to do with rules though. U see price discovery on every country
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    • Think of the Norwegian butter crisis. Shit was smuggled like gold and sold to who could afford it. A gov failing
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    • The thing is bitching and moaning without understanding reasons or cause and effects does nothing. Well except get group think amongst other lazy emo ppl
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    • https://www.ebay.co.…sted
    • And maybe that is the point. It's human to be a part of something for most or that same group think. It's comfort and security
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    • But u should, not that u will, tigers do t change stripes. Exactly the consequences of what u are chasing and its real effects
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  • NBQ000

    Hedge funder Bill Ackman: I made $2.6 billion off coronavirus market crash: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bil…

    • #Winning
      #MAGA For Life
      #USA#1
      utopian
  • Beeswax0

    Socialism is reloading. teeheee

    There's no way out of this economic turmoil other than the governments stepping in and start nationalizations and giving paychecks to the masses.
    Free market rules will still reign for a while for certain sectors like internet companies but mass production can't continue under private ownerships. They are all fucked.

    • Now it's time to introduce universal income and get robots off their asses to do the work for usNBQ00
    • the robots are already doing it nbq. we need to start clawing back the profits made from automation... where do you think bezos and gates made their billions?kingsteven
    • Because rolling back profits creates productivity how?.... This is perfect example why I don't think u understand shit about capitalism or economics
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    • Or u do. It prefer the equality that only death is the true master of
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    • Stepping in and start nationalizing? You want trump to assign bureaucratic tool to run a company that he has no experience in?hotroddy
  • whatthefunk21

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    • This dude, albeit little is fantastic.ideaist
    • The current system died in 2008. Control of the media kept the zombie going. 2020 may have just crushed the brain stem.monoboy
    • Close the tax havens and start again.monoboy
    • Bring back socially democracy and responsible capitalism.monoboy
    • Nepotistic neo-liberal corporatism needs to go.monoboy
    • Or summit...monoboy
  • utopian3

    • But Jeff Bezos wants the public to bail out Amazon employees.NBQ00
    • Imagine how much is sitting in offshore bank accounts, trust funds and shell companies.monoboy
    • But no. 'That's my money, that I made on your labour, nurtured by the state system, that I don't pay a penny towards.'monoboy
    • So what you say. Well, if they want those advantages to stick around, they should consider emptying those deep pockets.monoboy
    • But they won't, because their 'competitors' will jump on the opportunity to fuck them over.monoboy
    • Sharks.monoboy
    • Just like Goldman Sachs did in 2008.monoboy
    • I am anti monster business, but this idea that they don't pay anything is so miscontrued. I own a business and just like myself, amazon pays payroll taxes fortoemaas
  • utopian0

  • PhanLo3

  • whatthefunk3

    • Ask deathboy, he is our very own special kind of Rhodes Scholar.utopian
    • Sure I'll take it. First the question is a false premise. Whole go is to push false narratives. Why do I know?
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    • Capitalism defined by free trading value for value has never nor would it need a bail out by it's nature
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    • If something is unnecessary for public spending than it largely is. Not capitalism that says bail something out. That is socialism
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    • Something that can only be enacted by a gov official. Gov can't control free markets at all. They can only impose controls
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    • So yea love logically u can see the post is emo trigger bait for your own leanings for social fame
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    • Hope u learned something utopian. Don't want me to start charging for your lessons
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    • Take a break son, you sound like you need it.monoboy
  • i_monk-1

    The Coronavirus Pandemic Demonstrates the Failures of Capitalism

    https://www.teenvogue.com/story/…

    • lol Teen Vogue
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    • what's wrong with teen Vogue?utopian
    • nb doesn't know about Teen Voguei_monk
    • the coronavirus demonstrates failure of the Chinese communist party to provide food for their people: https://www.youtube.…hotroddy
    • WTF Hotroddy does a "VOX video" have to do with TeenVogue? Get a grip pal...Has your sense of teen fashion evaporated? Is your soul dead? Are you ginger?utopian
    • I'm sorry Utopian, I'll renew my teen vogue subscription to reignite my teen passion..:)hotroddy
    • I was as surpised as you to see a news source here that doesn't have tin hat/cryptocurrency/r... wing origins.webazoot
    • "Are you ginger?" LOLMaaku
  • Morning_star-3

    It seems to be the prevailing opinion that capitalism is evil and should be eradicated like smallpox? Including those humans that have a personal wealth greater than... (make up your own arbitrary value here)...hung from the nearest lamp post.

    Does anyone at all have any workable solutions that excludes a capitalist solution in some form or other? (Note the word 'workable')

    • yeah, give up identities.uan
    • Capitalism, Socialism and Communism all have their strengths and weaknesses. It's funny how most people do not realize how intermingled they really are.utopian
    • https://i.pinimg.com…Bluejam
    • It's the prevailing opinion of loudmouths, maybe. But not the general prevailing opinion.
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    • I hear you @Utopian and @NB, loud and clear.
      @Bluejam: Bueller!
      Morning_star
    • it worked for france. Liberté, égalité, fraternité!Gnash
    • it's simple. Complete free market, unless it's about affordable healthcare, affordable education & support of low income to eradicate inequality.Beeswax
    • Maybe we could nationalise healthcare, utilities, domestic travel and let the free market take care of everything else.monoboy
  • utopian0

    Displaced homeless seek shelter at Cashman Field in Las Vegas. Homeless people self isolating in a Vegas car park. Isn't Vegas full of hotels? With nobody in them?

    https://www.reviewjournal.com/lo…

    • Do u have a couch or empty space for a homeless? Be the change u preach brother!
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    • U preach and I'll go hang with the family u miss so much while trying to avoid the news... Maybe share some saliva as well
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    • https://media.tenor.…
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    • How many times did your mom drop you on your head as a child?utopian
    • Remember kids, you can't want a better future if you're whiter than white and don't participate in the corporatist system.monoboy
    • Only those that live in self-sufficient eco communes can pass judgement on such things.monoboy
    • *not (first post)monoboy
    • Until then, you can keep paying your tax for big corporate bailouts whilst the system crumbles underneath your feet.monoboy
  • shapesalad0

    • sorry... just discovered this Al Murray chap.shapesalad
    • He’s good.MrT
  • doggydoggdog3

    • Don’t worry. Those sorry Republican cunts will all send their checks back, because they don’t accept handouts.monospaced
    • Yeah but, no incentive not to be poor, starving helps people climb the ladder, etc.PhanLo
    • IF I received a check, I would donate it immediately. I said this before it was even a reality. I don’t qualify but I also don’t need it.monospaced
    • I see a bunch of people online talking about the check like it’s a bonus, picking out TVs and stuff. It’s sickening.monospaced
    • If you make more than $99,000, you don't get anything.doggydoggdog
    • ^ which makes no sense, income is relative to your cost of living. $99k in SF is not the same $99k in Biluxy. They should modulate that shit.zarkonite
    • ^ that's true but if you make more than $99,000 anywhere, you're fine. And if you need $1200 more, you need to adjust your lifestyledoggydoggdog
  • utopian4

    A Capitalism Classic Story

  • whatthefunk4

  • colin_s3

    on twitter it seems there are some long-standing bank of america clients who are small business owners getting rejected for federal loans because they don't have a bank of america business credit card (required for getting the emergency funding).

    lol

    • Capitalism Fuck Yeah!utopian
    • ^ more like hastily implemented government program fuck yeah!zarkonite
    • See utopian another example of why I think u are a troll account
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  • NBQ000

    Look at this gringo

  • PhanLo0

    • And if u love them all set a time to huddle together and starve
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    • Curious how u think stocks,capital and commerce have nothing to do with what u take for granted
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    • Perhaps u want to be lucky to eat meat protein once a week and a good day is one u didn't Rob someone
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    • You'll be able to get Soylent Green on your wee island man, don't worry about it.PhanLo
    • I wonder if the suicide rate will be higher than the 45k.year than it normally is.toemaas