- 🆂🆃🅰🅽🅻🅴🆈 🅿🅰🅸🅽 ( @Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English15•6 days ago
Shareholders Uber Alles
- I Cast Fist ( @ICastFist@programming.dev ) English9•5 days ago
Don’t forget depression, anxiety and thought crime caused by social media addiction
- HopFlop ( @HopFlop@discuss.tchncs.de ) English3•5 days ago
All communist social-media addicts are always hsppy for the rest of their lives, of course! The addiction can’t be the issue, it has to be capitalism!
- Cowbee ( @Cowbee@lemmy.ml ) English3•5 days ago
Hey, I became a lot more hopeful for the future after reading Marx. Capitalism does indeed suck, but it’s unsustainable.
- frezik ( @frezik@midwest.social ) English2•4 days ago
The problem Marx didn’t foresee is that capitalism can sustain itself until it destroys us all. In Nazi Germany, this left the country a bombed out pile of rubble. In modern times, it’s global warming.
- Cowbee ( @Cowbee@lemmy.ml ) English2•4 days ago
Marx definitely foresaw that possibility, his conclusions are more that if there aren’t grand wars or famines eliminating everyone, Capitalism itself cannot last forever, which is far more comforting than assuming socialism can vibe itself into existence.
- MacN'Cheezus ( @MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ) English1•5 days ago
Lemmy is made by actual communists, so let’s not pretend communism would somehow fix that.
- YeetPics ( @YeetPics@mander.xyz ) English2•4 days ago
Yea, these are the real communists, not like all those other communists, with their fake communism.
- MacN'Cheezus ( @MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ) English1•4 days ago
Well, if you ask any communist, they’ll tell you that real communism has never been tried, which implies that all other communists are fake.
- barkingspiders ( @barkingspiders@infosec.pub ) English7•6 days ago
preach it fam
- CableMonster ( @CableMonster@lemmy.ml ) English6•6 days ago
The US has the largest government in the history of the world, it is not remotely pure capitalist.
- Cowbee ( @Cowbee@lemmy.ml ) English22•6 days ago
It’s absolutely Capitalist and additonally Imperialist. Having a government doesn’t mean it isn’t Capitalist, especially if the bourgeoisie controls the state, rather than the proletariat.
- zbyte64 ( @zbyte64@awful.systems ) English14•6 days ago
Who do you think the US government works for?
- CableMonster ( @CableMonster@lemmy.ml ) English2•6 days ago
Many of them work for the rich, some of them have integrity, but most are just in it for their own power and benefit.
- The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) English8•5 days ago
Power and benefit, also sometimes referred to with the term “capital”
- CableMonster ( @CableMonster@lemmy.ml ) English1•5 days ago
Not really, its more control of people. The ability to feel power over a domain.
- The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) English3•5 days ago
Which is a form of capital. Our politicians use that power for monetary profit. That shits just intrinsic to building an entire system with capitalism at it’s heart like we been doing since the late 60s
- CableMonster ( @CableMonster@lemmy.ml ) English1•5 days ago
You are shoehorning the word capitalism in there.
- Facebones ( @Facebones@reddthat.com ) English6•5 days ago
- YeetPics ( @YeetPics@mander.xyz ) English5•4 days ago
Is anyone on Lemmy worried about socialism?
Who is this for?
- imPastaSyndrome ( @imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee ) English5•6 days ago
Well as long as we’ll have guns then things can be turned around…
- Oisteink ( @Oisteink@feddit.nl ) English9•6 days ago
It can be done with guns or it can be done without. Can is the magic word here, and guns are optional.
- Crikeste ( @Crikeste@lemm.ee ) English3•6 days ago
You’re gonna need a nuke, big guy. You aren’t taking on the American military with your lil pea shooter.
- octopus_ink ( @octopus_ink@lemmy.ml ) English5•5 days ago
Fuckin’ A right.
- anarchotaoist ( @anarchotaoist@links.hackliberty.org ) English3•5 days ago
So “Capitalism” ( by which you mean crony Corps in league with government - a socialist system) took away socialist ‘benefits’ - huh. Are you sure you are looking at the right end if the stick?
- fossphi ( @fossphi@lemm.ee ) English3•4 days ago
Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?
- BruceTwarzen ( @BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee ) English2•6 days ago
Som… the american dream.
- Vilian ( @Vilian@lemmy.ca ) English2•5 days ago
in USA*
- CurlyWurlies4All ( @CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net ) English6•5 days ago
In most places under the American empire’s control to varying degrees.*
- Vilian ( @Vilian@lemmy.ca ) English1•3 days ago
so only usa?, look at europe, even in brazil we have so much shit but nothing like that, and we are usa garden
- HopFlop ( @HopFlop@discuss.tchncs.de ) English1•5 days ago
At least if you lived in a socialist place before that naturally left you so helpless that you now wish for the heavy restrictions to be back because you rely on them.
“At least the walls of the prison kept me warm”…
- Cowbee ( @Cowbee@lemmy.ml ) English3•4 days ago
What?
- partizan ( @partizan@lemm.ee ) English2•6 days ago
I dont think the FED + state which printed 70% of USD money supplies during covid years has anything to do with capitalism and free market… They are anti free market and capitalism if anything…
- Cowbee ( @Cowbee@lemmy.ml ) English5•6 days ago
It’s simple, a State in Capitalist society serves the interests of the Bourgeoisie and defends Capitalism.
Capitalism naturally destroys free markets.
- The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) English2•5 days ago
People miss that Adam Smith in his writing was arguing in favor of small enterprise and in favor of the government busting up monopolies
- Cowbee ( @Cowbee@lemmy.ml ) English1•5 days ago
Yep, then Ricardo and later Marx built up on his theory.
- rah ( @rah@feddit.uk ) English2•6 days ago
Looks Pension and savings look like they’re all there. Looks Still employed. Looks Still have free health care. Looks Still seem to be churning out graduates with pace. Looks No debt.
🤷♂️
- Crikeste ( @Crikeste@lemm.ee ) English17•6 days ago
You don’t have free healthcare, unless you don’t live in America. And if that’s the case, your comment means nothing.
- Schwim Dandy ( @schwim@lemm.ee ) English2•6 days ago
And if that’s the case, your comment means nothing.
That’s not very socialist of you.
- rah ( @rah@feddit.uk ) English1•6 days ago
your comment means nothing.
WTF?!
- Wes4Humanity ( @Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee ) English16•6 days ago
Where’s do you live that you have a pension and free healthcare?
- Luke ( @lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml ) English13•6 days ago
The golden palace in their mind.
- zephorah ( @zephorah@lemm.ee ) English12•6 days ago
Skinny tails on bell curves always exist.