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> The beauty of capitalism is that we used to have horses and shoes only, then black cars became an option, and now you can buy any color you like. I'm pretty
by kelnos 2y ago
> The beauty of capitalism is that we used to have horses and shoes only, then black cars became an option, and now you can buy any color you like.
I'm pretty sure it's at best wildly misleading to argue that the reason cars were invented is "capitalism".
- FredPret 2y ago[flagged]
- talldayo 2y agoHN is incorrigable. Life is not a bipolar axis of capitalism and communism like a 60s propaganda film. Since the beginning of the United States, taxes and regulation have been used to protect the market from abuse and harm. You are privately allowed free enterprise, but said free enterprise does not protect you when you break the law. If you sell an illegal firearm to someone, the legal nature of the transaction doesn't cover for the fact that you're violating export restrictions and municipal law. It's the basic communitive property. You can jeer when the FTC throws your favorite corporation a yellow-card, but what else are you going to do? Europe's not going to stop, Apple hasn't payed taxes to half their jurisdictions in God knows how long. Japan doesn't care since Apple schemes ways to avoid their hardware duty. Your broader point can be whatever you make it, but the world doesn't owe you shit if you deliberately organize a criminal racket.