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ultralaser · 1 year ago

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# [me from former socialist Yugoslavia: bro do you really thing communism is the only answer anyone can accept?] # I don't hate american communists in theory # it's in the 'family' of political stances where I can mostly assume people have good intentions # but some of them... do not want to address historical horrors caused by that system

companies really have got to be okay with stagnant profits. what is wrong with earning the same amount every year? why does it always have to be more? it’s not sustainable. there are only so many people on the planet you can profit from 😭

#capitalism #midcentury #the gilded age #stakeholder capitalism #the new robber barons #not getting involved in pro or anti communism debate #except to say the usa today has more in common with the ussr in 1989 than the usa in 1969 #and the boomer economy was a blip between the horrors of the great depression and the horrors of today #but we can build that again #okay one bit about communism i think the ideology itself is sound but also deeply idealisitic about human nature #and a lot of erstwhile communists are essentially just left libertarians who seem deeply naive about how easy it is to corrupt a govt #but tbh this is true of any govt capitalist communist mercantile or otherwise #democracy is also a good idea that trump has proven depends deeply on everyone playing by the rules #and even so we had to fight a whole civil war already and a lot of ppl never got over that #bc america is super racist #so is europe!#5+8$#this is why dem socialism breaks down as soon as the canadian govt interacts w first nations or any european govt sees a boat of refugees #and you end up as australia smugly lecturing americans about civic investment or etc ehile literally building a giant catapult for migrants #anywuas good thing climate change usnt real and we arent about to face mass human migration and resource wars

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