▲ 1150 ▼ After donating $1m to Trump and axing DEI, Target CEO watches his salary get chopped in half by tariffs and angry shoppers (sinhalaguide.com) submitted 1 year ago by Merlu@lemmy.ml to c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world 156 comments fedilink hide all child comments Karma is a removed!
[+] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago Wall mart killed your community. We used to have walkable neighborhoods, instead we've salted the earth with parking lots and bigbox stores permalink fedilink source parent [–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 child) Capitalism is. The whole point of it is that more gets more, until everything is Monopoly. It's literally the point of the board game to show the absurdity. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) I don't think it's capitalism. It's the checks and balances associated with said capitalism. The government that is supposed to regulate it, does not. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago Capitalism is of course alot of things in practice, but you have to regulate it extremly hard to not get to late stage capitalism at some point. Socialistic capitalism is the closest thing we got in the real world, and is funnily enough also the countries with best living standards and reported happiness. permalink fedilink source parent [–] gradual@lemmings.world -2 points 1 year ago No it's not. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago Wall mart killed your community. We used to have walkable neighborhoods, instead we've salted the earth with parking lots and bigbox stores permalink fedilink source parent
[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 child) Capitalism is. The whole point of it is that more gets more, until everything is Monopoly. It's literally the point of the board game to show the absurdity. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) I don't think it's capitalism. It's the checks and balances associated with said capitalism. The government that is supposed to regulate it, does not. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago Capitalism is of course alot of things in practice, but you have to regulate it extremly hard to not get to late stage capitalism at some point. Socialistic capitalism is the closest thing we got in the real world, and is funnily enough also the countries with best living standards and reported happiness. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) I don't think it's capitalism. It's the checks and balances associated with said capitalism. The government that is supposed to regulate it, does not. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago Capitalism is of course alot of things in practice, but you have to regulate it extremly hard to not get to late stage capitalism at some point. Socialistic capitalism is the closest thing we got in the real world, and is funnily enough also the countries with best living standards and reported happiness. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago Capitalism is of course alot of things in practice, but you have to regulate it extremly hard to not get to late stage capitalism at some point. Socialistic capitalism is the closest thing we got in the real world, and is funnily enough also the countries with best living standards and reported happiness. permalink fedilink source parent