• @gibmiser@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      371 year ago

      What free market? All I have ever known is corporate socialism. Subsidize business with taxpayer dollars. Regulatory capture to prevent competitors from entering the market.

      • @Facebones@reddthat.com
        link
        fedilink
        231 year ago

        Somehow it’s not socialist when you prop up corporate entities with billion dollar handouts a few times a decade everytime they fuck up but a single mom getting $100 only usable for food because she was let go from her job of 5 years with 10 minutes notice is a communist plot single handedly destroying America.

      • m-p{3}
        link
        fedilink
        151 year ago

        The profits are privatized, and the bailouts are socialized.

      • @AngryMulbear@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        -171 year ago

        Hence why our economy is going to shit.

        We need to eliminate the corruption and return to free market principles, not add even more buerocracy that only benefits the Oligarchs.

    • Inevitable Waffles [Ohio]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      131 year ago

      You see all these people out here suffering and still say this? Where in the world can I get what you are taking because I’d love to be able to tune out everything that hard.

    • Izzy
      link
      fedilink
      121 year ago

      It’s the best at creating rampant consumerism and waste in the name of fake numbers going up at the cost of human happiness and fulfillment.

      • @AngryMulbear@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        -71 year ago

        Nope, that would be your government interfering in the free market by issuing inflationary fiat currency.

        Inflation drives a spend it or lose it mentality. Crony capitalists love that shit.

      • @AngryMulbear@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        -151 year ago

        If you have a better system for the future, let’s hear it.

        And no, a reboot of communism doesn’t count. Fresh ideas please.

        • @Facebones@reddthat.com
          link
          fedilink
          15
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          “If you have a better system let’s hear it”

          any suggestion other than the current system

          “No NO NOOOOO! IT’S NOT CRONY CAPITALISM! WAHHHH!”

            • @tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              link
              fedilink
              8
              edit-2
              1 year ago

              Just one example, Democratic Confederalism. There are endless possibilities, even within the scope of ‘communism’. To think free-market capitalism is the best that can be come up with is a severe underestimation of the powers of human ingenuity.

                • That is one of my biggest gripes with political discourse of all varieties, lack of creativity. I admit don’t know enough about the ‘democratic confederalism’ to fully support it, but from what I’ve heard it is compelling, it just comes to mind when I think of the question of capitalism vs communism.

        • @Custoslibera@lemmy.worldOP
          link
          fedilink
          111 year ago

          I’d be interested to hear what you think communism is but I digress.

          My better system starts with providing universal healthcare, education and housing.

          That’s it. I want people to not go bankrupt for going to the hospital, not take out huge loans for university education and not have to pay exorbitant housing costs.

          If you think this is fairy land dreams you have no comprehension of how much money is currently being redirected from these very things into the hands of capitalists so they can have a bigger yacht.

    • @rockSlayer@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      81 year ago

      What makes you say that? As a random example, leaded gasoline existed for 50 years longer than it should have. We’ve known lead was toxic since the Roman empire, and the only reason it was invented was to increase profits.

      • @Deftdrummer@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        11 year ago

        Romans died from lead in the aqueducts by the tens of thousands in Pompeii so saying they “knew” is misrepresentative to say the least. They didn’t know why. Do you really need hyperbole to make your point?

        • @rockSlayer@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          11 year ago

          Before modern germ theory, we thought nightshade killed us because it unbalanced our humors. The why isn’t important, it’s the understanding of toxicity.