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Vampire capitalism. They want civilization to break down so they can offer a solution for profit. The enemies of all people and life on the planet are a tiny gr
by cantrecallmypwd 2y ago
Vampire capitalism. They want civilization to break down so they can offer a solution for profit. The enemies of all people and life on the planet are a tiny group of oligarchs and their supplicants.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y agoNot unlike the manga Berserk
- CamperBob2 2y agoThis isn't capitalism, any more than arson, burglary, or extortion is capitalism. Get some new material.
- tigerBL00D 2y agoTo be fair, we don't yet know how capitalism ends.
- CamperBob2 2y agoWe know how everything else does, though.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoHeat death of the universe?
- Nevermark 2y agoI agree, given the right definition of “capitalism”. Unfortunately “capitalism” has two quite different meanings. Which are rarely clarified in use. Capitalism with a big C, a too common overarching ideology, gets bent to mean whatever the greedy, unethical and rich want it to mean so they can get more money. But small c capitalism, evolving from both practical and ethical foundations, is a system so useful it has multiplied the benefits of civilization. But it is just one such system. It can’t do everything, it needs other independent systems (justice, dispute resolution, rules of clarity, risk & trust limiting systems, for starters) to work, and extending it to places it doesn’t work causes great harm. (Like when perversely applied to those enabling systems, in big C form, as is happening now.)
- roughly 2y ago> any more than arson, burglary, or extortion is capitalism Indeed.
- GuinansEyebrows 2y agoHah. I’ve been hearing this No-True-Scotsman for Capitalism for decades now. It’s what we’ve got and is widely understood as capitalism. I won’t repeat your last sentence but the sentiment is similar.
- CamperBob2 2y agoIt's no different from what apologists for Communism and any number of other -isms will tell you. "B...b...but it's never really been tried." Capitalists are as entitled to that excuse as anyone else. It's almost as if no economic, social, or political system known to mankind will stand up for long under a determined onslaught of corruption.
- GuinansEyebrows 2y agoI'm not sure "well THEY do it so I want to do it too" is the strongest argument.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoIt's malicious rent seeking. Is that capitalism? Once you run out of easy problems to solve, you create problems for yourself to solve.