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* all the years capitalism has existed. This is bog-standard capitalist formula. Profit over people. Worker and customer and public alike.
by flandish 2y ago
* all the years capitalism has existed. This is bog-standard capitalist formula. Profit over people. Worker and customer and public alike.
- whythre 2y agoAs opposed to the other big economic system, the one that always seem to involve a lot of camps and mass graves.
- aaomidi 2y agoPretending that capitalism doesn’t kill people doesn’t really help move the conversation. There’s also more options than Soviet Union’s state capitalism and US’ “market” capitalism.
- piva00 2y agoCapitalism has its own ways to kill people as well, just with some extra layers to blame the victims.
- readthenotes1 2y agoAnd government run monopolies don't? E.g., https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_accidents_and_incidents https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_accidents_and_incid...
- piva00 2y agoDid I say that?
- flandish 2y agoWhat other system? Capitalism has camps and mass graves. The other system has never been implemented. You know this.
- TheLoafOfBread 2y agoAs somebody from Eastern Block, it is not much worse. Government will forcibly create monopoly businesses, they have no reason to improve their products and to top it off, you can't create competing business, because government does not allow that. Just look what was the result after 1989 - companies who could compete with western ones, because government did not required innovation last 40 years and 5 year plans were solved by throwing more people at the problem or outright lying. Result was that products were often obsolete long before manufacturing even started, what was made were poor quality (i.e. we called it finish it at home) and much more expensive than in the rotten West.