cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/leftymemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com/p/1650861/pluralism-go-brrr
capitalism has so many flaws ... for example the power imbalance with very rich people. we use it because we dont have a better system and thats it IMHO.
Do think who is we in this context.
No better system for the rich? Yes.
But you and me are not rich. So how could there be no better system when we can see universal healthcare in countries like Cuba under a blockade and no universal healthcare in the US. Or we can compare home ownership between China and the west.
Additionally capitalism in not one thing. The Nordic countries are capitalist and provide much better quality of life for their citizens than the USA or eastern Europe.
I am simplifying it, because capitalism will eventually always lead to austerity, division and hatered. But hopefully if you start thinking in more nuanced way you can see that too.
A principled democratic government limited by checks and balances brings peace, stability, and true representation of the people.
A well regulated capitalist system that's managed by the previously described government bring wealth, innovation, and higher standards of living.
They are both important, and things we should strive for. However, we currently have neither.
Capitalism is meant to prevent the government from controlling all the money and resources and ruling over the people with an iron fist
But when you don't apply laws and limitations to it, the ultra-rich become the iron fist
EDIT: Oh, wow I just noticed this is a dbzer0 user posting here and cross-posting to dbzer0. I thought I heard some stuff about that one so I went and read its description: "Communities about Anarchism, Generative AI, Copylefts, Neurodivergence, Filesharing, and Free Software. (And Math!)"
You should probably just go back to your cave. Why are you even here? Go be ashamed of yourselves, your anarchism and your generative AI. Lemmy World should cut ties with this one.
Ah yes, the evergreen "comment on the headline, never read the article" energy, for a whole instance. You probably don't have a clue what you think you're taking issue with.
Got any dork-ass ignorant takes about other leftist instances? I have a funny feeling ya juuuuust might!
The USA is a corporate welfare state, I wish it was capitalist at this point, that would be an immense improvement.
Corporate welfare IS an inevitable consequence of capitalism.
Capitalism is an ideology that venerates the accumulation of capital over everything else.
Nothing helps with capital accumulation like under-regulated and over-advantaged corporations.
To be fair, what we're doing now isn't capitalism, it's corporatocracy. It's the end stage of capitalism, the part of the Monopoly game where one guy has all the properties except the dude with the railroads, and the rest of us are hoping to land on Free Parking.
You shop from a handful of large conglomerates and they're fixing the prices.
There's no (beneficial) innovation. There's no competition. We're essentially in a truck system going into debt trying to survive from the company store.
free parking
That's the tile where nothing happens?
Normally Free Parking is a square where nothing happens, much like landing on GO or Jail. Some households have a rule where they get a bonus for landing on Free Parking, such as all the taxes paid (like Luxury Tax), but officially, it's just a blank square.
The board game, like the kleptoctacy, was house ruled to death.
Hmmm, true. Isn't it less fun when the game just ends abruptly because someone rolled into free parking? Unless it's endgame like the other person described but I don't imagine that lasting long enough to get too boring. IDK, I don't have friends to play monopoly. This is opposed to other house rules that, could sometimes make the game more fun. Like "you can stack plus cards" in uno makes the game play more like those funny internet videos about it.
History of Monopoly is fascinating:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Monopoly
It began as:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord's_Game
The Landlord's Game is a board game patented in 1904 by Elizabeth Magie as U.S. patent 748,626. A realty and taxation game intended to educate users about Georgism, it is the inspiration for the 1935 board game Monopoly.
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just to be a pedantic ass: the “end stage” of capitalism is still capitalism. it’s like the end stage of cancer is still called cancer; we need to continue to reference the fact that capitalism is destroying all it touches.
new phrases or labels only cleave attention spans in a world already designed (by capitalism) to have no focus.
It's like the terrible "it's not technically pedophilia, it's..." arguments
what we're doing now isn't capitalism, it's corporatocracy.
Capitalism is an ideology that favors the accumulation of capital over all else and, corporations being the most effective vehicle for doing so, corporatocracy is an inevitable component of it.
It's the end stage of capitalism, the part of the Monopoly game where one guy has all the properties except the dude with the railroads, and the rest of us are hoping to land on Free Parking.
AKA the goal of capitalism.
Monopoly was originally called The Landlord's Game, and was created by a Georgist as a critique of and warning against the inevitable consequences of capitalism and rent seeking as well as an education tool about Georgism.
It even had a cooperative game mode where the goal was to beat the bank by engaging in the kind of mutually beneficial trade that's antithetical to capitalism.
That Parker Brothers (now Hasbro) took it and turned it into a popular CELEBRATION of rent seeking is exactly the kind of bullshit Elizabeth Magie was trying to warn people about.
There's no (beneficial) innovation. There's no competition.
And that's a natural consequence of capitalism.
Contrary to the pro-capitalism gaslighting, capitalism is NOT about improving conditions for the many via healthy competition. It's about increasing the wealth of the privileged few by eliminating competition.
You mean Monopoly was plagiarised by Darrow from Magie's game.
Sounds like good old capitalism to me.
The end stage of capitalism is imperialism
Exactly what's written on the bible
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