• Saint_La_Croix_Crosse@midwest.social
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    6 hours ago

    Capitalism is pay for play. Literally, if you have enough money to invest in capital, you don’t have to work and should continue getting wealthier by already having money. Capitalism and markets are not synonymous.

    Liberalism and capitalism is pro-oligarchy. By having money and capital, you get to decide how labor is allocated, what society produces, and the ability to discipline the populace through capital strikes, if not much more direct methods like lobbying.

    Liberalism is not anti-oligarch, they would just prefer the paperwork is filled out properly, so it is technically lobbying and not bribery. Elon Musk was an oligarch LONG BEFORE DOGE, and liberals loved him before he was vocally pro-Trump. Liberals loved him because he became the wealthiest man on earth by his “innovation”, and only hated him, not because of his weird unhinged bullshit which existed long before, but only after that unhinged weirdness was pro-Trump.