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- imbecile-1
- Humanity is such a beautiful thing.utopian
- Nope. Blatantly untrue.Morning_star
- How is this not true? Serious questionnb
- africa has received billions of aid (ie. free food, aka socialism) for last 50 years and they still can't feed themselves.hotroddy
- and capitalism is the incentive for farmers to product for people who don't produce food.hotroddy
- there's a reason why farmers have highest suicide rates. having a blue hair and a nose ring and bitching about sexual identity is a luxury farmers don't havehotroddy
- Selling food isn't capitalism. Owning someone else's farm, and so the profit of that sold food, is capitalism.i_monk
- Subsidies in the developed world have kept African farmers for competing on the world market, while simultaneously farmland there is dedicated to exporti_monk
- instead of the domestic market.i_monk
- hotdoddy doesnt care if dictators throw humans out of helicopters but is bitching about people who are sensitve about sexual id.neverscared
- it's a bit more complex than the image or the comments, but ok.maikel
- So... Morningstar is Hotroddy.
Case closed...hydro74 - like twin brothers....neverscared
- Hey so nobody has explained how the sentences in the image are untruenb
- @nb, ‘Under capitalism’ food is produced to meet demand. The market sets the price and profit or loss is the result.
‘When it’s not profitable to feed...Morning_star - ... people’ is an absurd statement. It assumes that the market is not free. If the market is not free, by definition, it isn’t capitalism.
‘Even when labour...Morning_star - ... has conquered scarcity’ is an equally absurd statement. Scarcity is a feature of resource supply and controlled by price. Labour cannot control scarcity. ...Morning_star
- ... Controlling resource is one way of using scarcity but in a free market this is controlled by demand. If the price is too high we are free to find another...Morning_star
- ... supplier.
What tarnishes capitalism is the same thing that tarnishes communism. The corruption that manifests due to capitalism, or communism for that...Morning_star - ... matter, is entirely human and usually in the form of greed.Morning_star
- Oh ok so we don’t live under capitalism and no one ever has. Got it.nb
- No, you haven't 'got it'. At what point did i say we don't live in societies that use free market capitalist systems?Morning_star
- A few notes back, “If the market is not free, by definition, it isn’t capitalism.”nb
- 'If'... and in the previous sentence it clarifies the 'assumption' of the meme. The meme states that the market isn't free, not me.Morning_star
- utopian2
- I’m not sure you chaps know how Capitalism works. All ‘Supply’ does not create a market.Morning_star
- That's a ridiculous meme. Profit margins have not increased in commercial re, which is on the brink of disaster currently.formed
- Renters don't dictate the rent they'll pay, they go where they can afford.i_monk
- grafician-3
"Global debt has reached $315 trillion, according to data from the Institute of International Finance."
- NBQ001
People like to look for patterns. Let's see if history repeats.
- “Past performance is not indicative of future performance”grafician
- Well, let's see.NBQ00
- throw some more circles in there!sarahfailin
- PhanLo2
- This is feudalism. You own nothing and pay a tithe to your landlords.PhanLo
- https://www.penguin.…palimpsest
- Freedom from worldly possessionsnb
- PhanLo2
- Theil + Musk is fucking terrifying.formed
- WIld that Vance is now the VP. I'll bet he's shitting himself that Kamala is running.formed
- No small coincidence that Musk is funding Trump.formed
- CIA data + X data + Tesla data + Starlink + fucking rockets + more money than nations = the true Bond villainsformed
- utopian4
Judge finds Google maintains illegal monopoly over online search
https://thehill.com/video/judge-…- That's just his opinion, though. I don't see any ruling. Arguably, they are less monopolistic now compared to any other year. Facebook, on the other hand...formed
- imbecile1
we're so poor, there's nearly 14 trillion dollars on ths list
https://www.forbes.com/billionai…- Not clicking that link.
Dont need to be more depressed than we already are.Continuity - just imagine 2,500 people you'll never meet, all with an average net worth of 5.6 billion dollars, eachimbecile
- Not clicking that link.
