• uralsolo [he/him]
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        191 year ago

        That is how capitalism works.

        Yes. And it is deeply unfair in how it rewards entrenched wealth rather than giving everyone equal opportunities. That’s why socialists are opposed to it.

          • ElHexo [comrade/them]
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            231 year ago

            I didn’t come from entrenched wealth

            Other than not being born in the slums of an exploited country, right?

          • uralsolo [he/him]
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            201 year ago

            I’ve worked hard for what I have too. That doesn’t stop me from looking around, seeing that there are billions of people on this planet who work way harder than I do for way less than I have, and saying “this system should be changed.”

            idk what communist countries you’ve been to, but if you compare for example the average Cuban’s quality of life to that of the average person on any other Caribbean island, capitalism doesn’t come out looking too hot. Most post Soviet countries are still poorer today than they were in 1989, almost everyone who has been lifted out of poverty in the past generation is Chinese, and there are literally hundreds of capitalist countries that have been doing capitalism for a hundred years or more that have remained the poorest countries in the world regardless.

            The objective reality is that communism is leaps and bounds better at organizing society than capitalism can ever be, full stop.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        151 year ago

        This is ironically a poor sales pitch, unless you believe that networking, marketing, and familial wealth should be what orders society.

        And I never said that 250k was all they had, and in fact being able to throw that much money at something is going to be less and less of a concern the more money you have, though I don’t think his family was “poor as hell” to start with. Unfortunately for this point, their finances at the time are not publicized that I can find.

          • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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            261 year ago

            It’s all part of how society works.

            I said should, not does.

            But he didn’t steal profits.

            Back then, he used a considerable amount of money to run at a loss. Nowadays, he does steal a remarkable level of profits in the unpaid wages of the employees who keep winding up in the news for being forced to piss in bottles or drive to work in a hurricane.