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> society often feels taken advantage of by people with vast well-stocked fortunes. Given that the rich will survive this with a dent to their fortunes, while

> society often feels taken advantage of by people with vast well-stocked fortunes. Given that the rich will survive this with a dent to their fortunes, while everyone else is risking losing their house, jobs, health, and even lives, this isn’t a feeling, but the reality. If the outcome of this pandemic is Capitalism devolving into greater wealth concentration and inequality, and the consequence of that concentration is ever increasing precarity and material harm for everyone else, it is terribly ill suited for this and all other crises.

saas_sam 7y ago
Yours is a grossly ignorant comment. This crisis was started and worsened by the Chinese Communist Party who used their one-party, autocratic power to jail doctors and journalists who were trying to help early on. Every supply-and-demand crisis in history that was managed by a non-capitalist regime such as in the USSR and Venezuela was worsened by many orders of magnitude. I'm talking about people starving in the streets while warehouses full of pork, milk, and grain rotted due to an inability to centrally manage supply chains. I'm talking about once-productive farms shutting down once the "evil greedy farmers" were run out of the country and the farms turned over to "the People" -- go read about what happened to these farms and the people who depended on them. I know it's fashionable to rail against The Man and watch your Reddit Gold™ roll in, but I really wish you'd press pause on that until becoming a smidge better educated on the subject.
- danharaj 7y ago
  It is always remarkable when capitalist cheerleaders fly into a fit of incoherent rage over reasonable criticism of their favored system. You don't get enough out of capitalism to lick the boot that hard, buddy.
  - saas_sam 7y ago
    Hmm, one side of this argument appears to come prepared with facts and examples while the other side only has name-calling and insults. While I would never dream to try and change your mind, friend, I very much appreciate that you outed yourself for me so other readers are led to the correct conclusion.
    - danharaj 7y ago
      I'm not arguing with you, I didn't say "You're wrong because you're malding", I just said "you're malding".
    - chillwaves 7y ago
      > I know it's fashionable to rail against The Man and watch your Reddit Gold™ roll in, but I really wish you'd press pause on that until becoming a smidge better educated on the subject. Clearly throwing insults exposes a weak hand.
      - saas_sam 7y ago
        OK you got me, but my point is that's ALL the other guy had. ;-)

saas_sam 7y ago

Yours is a grossly ignorant comment. This crisis was started and worsened by the Chinese Communist Party who used their one-party, autocratic power to jail doctors and journalists who were trying to help early on. Every supply-and-demand crisis in history that was managed by a non-capitalist regime such as in the USSR and Venezuela was worsened by many orders of magnitude. I'm talking about people starving in the streets while warehouses full of pork, milk, and grain rotted due to an inability to centrally manage supply chains. I'm talking about once-productive farms shutting down once the "evil greedy farmers" were run out of the country and the farms turned over to "the People" -- go read about what happened to these farms and the people who depended on them. I know it's fashionable to rail against The Man and watch your Reddit Gold™ roll in, but I really wish you'd press pause on that until becoming a smidge better educated on the subject.

danharaj 7y ago
It is always remarkable when capitalist cheerleaders fly into a fit of incoherent rage over reasonable criticism of their favored system. You don't get enough out of capitalism to lick the boot that hard, buddy.
- saas_sam 7y ago
  Hmm, one side of this argument appears to come prepared with facts and examples while the other side only has name-calling and insults. While I would never dream to try and change your mind, friend, I very much appreciate that you outed yourself for me so other readers are led to the correct conclusion.
  - danharaj 7y ago
    I'm not arguing with you, I didn't say "You're wrong because you're malding", I just said "you're malding".
  - chillwaves 7y ago
    > I know it's fashionable to rail against The Man and watch your Reddit Gold™ roll in, but I really wish you'd press pause on that until becoming a smidge better educated on the subject. Clearly throwing insults exposes a weak hand.
    - saas_sam 7y ago
      OK you got me, but my point is that's ALL the other guy had. ;-)