I think you know why. Is this a real question or are you just fishing?
this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2024
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Lack of successful alternatives? It's easy to find flaws with capitalism but every other system has its share of problems too.
Socialism is the successful successor to Capitalism. Socialism isn't an idea you implement, but a consequence of markets coalescing into monopolist syndicates that make themselves ripe for public ownership and planning.
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Brainwashed since birth. GI Joe had the American Express slogan in an episode ("never leave home without it."). Alvin and the Chipmunks had a story about the Berlin Wall propagandizing communism. All the bad guys in Cobra have accents.
This shit is vile and it was on my morning cartoons.
Living in denial is easy to continue doing and widely encouraged, while being very hard to overcome.
Often because they're profiting from it themselves.
Because communism β utopia. I only hate on shitty billionaires and ones that used shady methods to amass their wealth.
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I donβt think someone is inherently a bad person just by having a lot of money. Itβs what they do with the money that counts. And even bad people deserve human rights such as not being cannibalized.
As for capitalism, it seems that most problems that are commonly attributed to it are actually just a matter of bad regulation. For example, intellectual property is precisely the opposite of capitalism β the government artificially prevents a market from being free by granting a legally enforced monopoly.
Interesting question. I don't think I've ever defended either. I've also only lived in capitalist countries, so I have no personal experience with other economic systems.