Capitalism is good when I, a mediocre white person, can make enough money to flip real estate on the side and make at least $350k per year and pay little to no capital gains tax and then buy a used snowmobile dealership

Capitalism is crony capitalism when there's a big financial and real estate sector run by billionaires who make it hard for me, a mediocre white person, to flip real estate on the side and also I have to pay capital gains tax meaning I am precarious in my position as a snowmobile dealership owner

real capitalism has never been tried

Seems like our modern-day problems are never problems with capitalism itself, but problems in the past were problems with socialism.

look! I made a meme where an interplanetary fascist mass murderer says the thing I believe to be true!

economically illiterate

CHUDs “fucking love economics” the same way they accuse the left of “fucking loving science”.

Everyone’s an anti-intellectual until it’s time to disregard economics.

From Wikipedia: "The initial use of the term "capitalism" in its modern sense is attributed to Louis Blanc in 1850 ... and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in 1861". Two socialists, not describing an ideal, but rather describing reality (or, in other words, capitalism just is crony state capitlism).

You can have laissez-faire free market capitalism for about 30 minutes before the big capitalists establish a state.

Liberals who think like this imply they do not comprehend the centrality of contract, property, corporate, copyright and patent laws to a capitalist society or that these concepts are so hopelessly abstract in their head that it might as well have the same relevance as mentioning bowling or botany

Just wtf do they think a state is? These people have no idea what capitalism is

if you remove all the onerous regulations around child slavery, landlordism, privately owned security services, human trafficking, heavy arms manufacturing, human experimentation, organ harvest, and sexual exploitation... crony corporatism will cease to exist and the bright, radiant future of market fundamentalism will emerge.

They're just too philosophically illiterate to understand how things develop and change over time.

Capitalism? Like the drug dealer?

He's right that most people don't hate capitalism (even though they should).

They hate the effects that capitalism has on their lives and have no coherent model to explain it.

Ok ok but what if everyone owned capital rather than just a few people. Like some sort of law that enforces fair ownership. Maybe seize the means of production in some sort of redistribution scheme.

People can't recognize the difference between capitalism and commerce. You don't need to completely end private property and free enterprise in order to end capitalism. Hell, even the Soviet Union at times found keeping some small private businesses around made a lot of sense.

I don't want a world where people can't work for themselves, provide services directly to others, etc. Every restaurant and bar doesn't need to be run by a central planning committee. But giant conglomerates that control the employment of tens of thousands? Maybe that's the kind of thing the private market shouldn't be running. We can let people operate their own modest independent businesses without also letting Walmart exist. We can let people earn enough modest profit from the fruits of their labor to make starting new businesses worthwhile, without also allowing people to hoard such vast fortunes that they become geopolitically dangerous. We can have commerce without capitalism. I want a world where people can work for themselves without having to work for someone else or for the government. That doesn't mean I want a world where you can become a billionaire by playing labor arbitrage with the hard work of thousands of other human beings. We can let people own their own homes without also allowing industrial-scale landlording.

Commerce and capitalism are not the same thing. We can have commerce without capitalism. Commerce existed long, long before capitalism, and it will exist long after capitalism has been relegated to the history books.

i would love to see this guy try to explain it

I hate more the term "late stage capitalism". Late stage implying that the "normal" capitalism is totally acceptable.

I've never seen this show, is that really a line?

in this caption we are meant to agree with the guy who in the show tries to enslave the entire planet

Turns out libs are projecting when they say "Oh, communists just say that the USSR/China/etc. 'weren't real communism.'"

If only good, selfless people become our overlords via accumulating all capital, it will all work out completely and utterly fine. What? What do you mean people die and are replaced by their failchildren?

Even the very most charitable way to think about it breaks down after one generation. You buffoons. You idiots.