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> I don't like capitalism much at all Say people who: - Are typing on computers that would not exist without capitalism - Using an an internet that would
by robomartin 3y ago
> I don't like capitalism much at all
Say people who:
- Are typing on computers that would not exist without capitalism
- Using an an internet that would not exist without capitalism
- Using phones that would not exist without capitalism
- Wearing clothes that would not exist without capitalism
- Living in homes that would not exist without capitalism
- Using furniture that would not exist without capitalism
- Enjoying entertainment that would not exist without capitalism
- Buying food that would not exist without capitalism
- Benefiting from medicine that would not exist without capitalism
- Living lives that would not exist without capitalism
- etc.
It's always interesting that those who despise capitalism never pull-up anchor and move to where they might be able to enjoy something in the range between socialist utopia and flat-out communism. Weird how that NEVER happens and how the vast majority of people actually yearn to live in places where capitalism has managed to --yes, imperfectly so-- raise more people out of poverty than any other system in the history of humanity.
No? Well, then, be an example and get rid of all the things you benefit from that came as a result of dirty-filthy capitalism. Be a role model for others. There's a huge difference between talking about virtue and having it. It's easy to not like capitalism while using your laptop while sipping a latte at Starbucks.
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y agoThis is just total bullshit. You seem to believe that innovation, and perhaps even production, requires a system in which the investment of capital in a limited liability enterprise is disproportionately the beneficiary of profit compared to the investment of labor or IP (that's all the capitalism consists of). The things you list above are the product of science, art, curiosity, imagination, ambition, empathy, and hope. All of which can exist (and flourish) without or without capitalism. Perhaps you make the mistake of thinking that capitalism somehow means "free markets" or "entrepeneurial culture". It does not. Those ideas are orthogonal to it, and can exist with it or without it. They can exist with or without worked-owned co-operatives. They can exist with or without state owned enterprises. They can exist with or without publicly traded shared-based ownership.
- robomartin 3y agoPainting fantasies does not magically make them reality. Be careful, your indoctrination is showing.
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y agoThe fantasies are your conflation of all human progress with "capitalism".
- JohnBooty 3y agoQuiet a few fallacies on display here. I don't even know where to start. - You can dislike capitalism but currently have insurmountable obstacles preventing you from moving somewhere else - You can dislike capitalism but accept that it is currently something like the least-bad economic system - You can like capitalism in general but criticize it and recognize its inherent flaws - You can like capitalism in general and criticize a particular implementation of it Well, then, be an example and get rid of all the things you benefit from that came as a result of dirty-filthy capitalism Oh my god.