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[–]ctvzbuxr 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Capitalism is not a system. Capitalism is the result of people engaging in vuluntary interactions. What we have today is not capitalism, but a system built in it's very essence on state coercion. We live in socialism, that is why the remnants of the market are seemingly (but not actually) failing.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Shhh. Don't wake them up. They still believe in the American Dream.

And they can't see that communism and capitalism are just totalitarianism and inverted-totalitarianism.

[–]ctvzbuxr 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah that's... not what I said at all.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I know. I was being silly. And expanding.

But I really liked what you said!

I'd go farther to say today we have extremist capitalism, aka exploitationism, including vulture capitalism, disaster capitalism (for natural and engineered events), surveillance capitalism, economic warfare, military profiteering, and a death culture. The entire military and capitalist bailouts exist from socialist coercion.