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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Just wow.

Also dudes talking about the market, which isn't the same as capitalism afaik.

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[-] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago

If you ask ten Americans to explain capitalism, nine will simply describe a market economy

[-] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago

capitalism when market

socialism when state

socialism-is-when

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

And then eight of those nine will just describe commerce.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

It's true. Friend of mine has a politics degree from a world renowned university and still insists that capitalism existed in antiquity because people exchanged goods for currency.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Graebers “Debt” does a great job of deconstructing this. Econ 101 really creates so many brainworms.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

This much better describes gift economies and pre-capitalist societies than it does capitalist ones, where the person giving you a haircut has to pay rent for the chair to a capitalist who doesn't have to do any labor at all.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

their life is better because they have the money they wanted

wanted

food cost mony

voluntary exchange

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

It's not coercion because you can voluntarily choose to starve instead

(This is what liberals actually believe)

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

radical freedom!

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

giving money to someone occasionally for a service is not the same as employing them on a daily basis to extract profit from their labor

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah but, what if you paid someone to hire them to cut your hair?

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Capitalism was invented in 130,000 BC checkmate commies

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

If you have a Flowbee you can cut your own hair.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It certainly does suck!

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Emoji name :rick-pain:

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

The testimonials are everything I hoped for.

Hello, Hope that you are doing excellent, just thought you might appreciate this note here. I purchased this Flowbee I know definitely more than 20 years ago..maybe 25! I used this here the other day and finished my haircut and then usually after every use I turn it on and spray the blades into the unit with some WD-40. When I went to turn it on to do this…….nothing…….it finally gave out and would not turn back on…..is there a lifetime guarantee on these for replacement?? ~~~~~~just joking~~~~~~ With the quality the way it is with most products these days this unit is an ICON…………Needless to say I will be purchasing a new one! Hope it lasts al long as this one did…………….Not Sure but maybe the lubrication after each use prolonged the life. I can only imagine how much money I have save with haircuts!!….and the thing I have always like the best…. is that I cut my hair how.. I.. want it to be and able to be consistent with the spacers each time. Can I get free shipping on the new one for being such a loyal user??….Never know till you ask……………………. Feel free to use this testimonial. SCOTT

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Why...do...boomers...type...like...this?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The music in the marketing video is just incredible, reminds me of totally different sorts of movies circa 80s - 90s.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I always though that this was a Wayne's World original joke. TIL, it existed before Wayne's World did.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You can cut your hair with just a bathroom mirror and a dull set of scissors if you're serious about it.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Capitalism is when something other than the government does stuff."

MFW communists are all ancaps because they want a stateless society but don't just want to return to monke. MFW this means I'm an ancap. MFW I have no face.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

okay but what about the untold amount of emiseration in exchange for that luxury

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

if your argument can be thoroughly rebuked by just pointing a finger towards slavery you shouldn't post it

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