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Capitalism suffers from the same problem as communism, its either everything is capitalism or nothing is capitalism. The frequent pattern is if it is good, its

• 9rx 1y ago
  That makes sense. Communism in its original sense is literally science fiction, but along the way, in an effort to tug on heart strings, communism also came to refer to rule under the Communist party. Which follows that (HN being American-centric), capitalism is being used to mean rule under the Republican party — which, especially in the past year, has seen growing negative sentiment. Another commenter basically said the same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44651323 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44651323 But I maintain that is still a product of lower quality comments. In the HN days of yore, commenters put more effort in to speaking clearly (often to the point of pedantry, for better or worse) rather than trying to get readers' emotions all worked up.