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There is also the thing that American corps like to do: sell out and buy out the politicians so they can use public funds to campaign against subsidies, educati
by barkingcat 5y ago
There is also the thing that American corps like to do: sell out and buy out the politicians so they can use public funds to campaign against subsidies, education, and all possible methods to regain the capabilities that they sold out to begin with.
It's like American capitalism wants itself to fail. It's pretty much self sabotage at this point.
- nopenopenopeno 5y agoThe tendency to destroy itself is both the good and the bad part of capitalism. Karl Marx was pretty sober about this. He always argued capitalism is a necessary stage but externalities would bottom out and the system would inevitably destroy itself.
- rbanffy 5y agoThe interesting part is that government subsidies like pretty much every responsible government does (China AND the US obviously included) help delay the predicted collapse of capitalism. What is food stamps for Walmart and Amazon workers if not an unaccounted for government subsidy?
- nopenopenopeno 5y agoBy that logic, if we truly hated capitalism we could just set off the nukes and never have to worry about stupid capitalism ever again.