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[-] Triumph@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

No, that's a free market, as I explained before you stopped reading.

You're the only one talking about profit. I never have. Oh wait, I bet you don't understand what profit is, either. That's wealth gained above and beyond the value of the labor input, because the consumer price is higher than it needs to be and/or labor is being undercompensated for their work. Profit is what the ownership class takes from labor without adding any real value. Yes, that's capitalism. Profit isn't "I have this thing which is a manifestation of my labor, and I will exchange it with you fairly for something you have which is a manifestation of your labor. We might even use an agreed-upon third carrier of value (currency) to make our exchange simpler and fairer, and make it so that lots of things are readily exchanged between all sorts of people. That makes the fair distribution of wealth more efficient (ideally).

This will all make more sense when you're out of your mom's basement.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This will all make more sense when you're out of your mom's basement.

Gotta be one of my favorite attempts at an insult because you better be right or else it just doesn't hit at all.

Sorry bud. Better luck next time.

[-] DaleGribble88@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

I'm not sure about your living situation, but after reading that back and forth, I gotta say, you haven't metaphorically left your mom's basement. Capitalism has a specific meaning, and capitalism is when markets exists is not it.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)
[-] DaleGribble88@programming.dev 1 points 5 hours ago

Whatever makes you feel big, buddy

[-] Folstar@lemmus.org 4 points 2 days ago

The US government had several programs to buy farming surpluses, ensuring the farmers were adequately paid and food was not wasted, before the corporate farms lobbied them out of existence. You're talking down to someone while not seeing the connection in your own statement between profit and cost.

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