Elmer Fudd Explains Capitalism.

[Yavin4]

It's such an old, quaint notion. It'll make you cry over lost innocence.

[Pharaoh]

1. It might work

If it was regulated. But what we have now is,...................

[zeemike]

12. I'll finish that for you.

Terminal Capitalism.

And the question asked was "where does it end?"...and the delusional say never.
But anything that must continue to grow will consume itself in the terminal stage.

[cprise]

19. The term used by intellectuals is Late Capitalism

which is like another way of saying it has become 'terminal' or has expired.

[delrem]

2. That's the way *I* do it, and I'm not a capitalist.

I'm an independent contractor, beholden to nobody but my customer base and line of material supply, and my product depends essentially on reinvesting "profits" into physical/material improvements so that not only do I maintain a status quo, but I improve on it so my situation is better. So my business can provide for me in my "declining years".

This cartoon isn't addressing the kind of shit that's being going down in 21st C. capitalism, where $trillions$ are being sucked out of entire countries/continents and the people are being trodden down under one pair of giant boots.

[SoapBox]

3. WHAT was that word?

Rumpledumple?

Rumpledimple?

Rumplestiltskin!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. Sylvester was soooo disappointed.

[SoapBox]

7. ...

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. These days the DO keep the profit.

[LostOne4Ever]

6. Ahhh so you were watching cartoon network today too!

Gotta love those classic looney tunes!

[Turbineguy]

8. That goes back to the philosophy

that corporations existed to make life better for everybody. Management's task was to organize production.

Quaint.

[Larry Ogg]

9. It's maybe a good explanation as to how corporations were sold to the working class.

But it doesn't, for obvious reasons, address the underlying corruption of a corporate management which bribes, and then extorts, the political system into removing any form of citizen oversight; effectively putting corporations and corporate managers above law.

Which in turn, alows corporations and corporate managers the opportunity to commit the biggest acts of legalized imbezalment, and inviormentle destruction (etc...) in all of human history.

Adding: Putting horns on Elmer Fudds head and a pitchfork in his hand might have painted a more truthful picture as to the true character of corporations.

[SoapBox]

13. Well...he did have a crown, like any king...or dictator.

Maybe he was really just a Jamie Dimon type or some "hedge fund / wall streeter" masquerading as an elf.

[Larry Ogg]

15. In myths and fairy tales you have royal blood and kings...

In science and sociology you have genetic psychopathy and CEO's.

If you were to study the character traits of royal families, Jamie Dimon, most politicians, confirmed and convicted psychopaths, you might not find any differences, other then they are radically different from the honest people they gracefully deceive, which is most of the population.

But yes it is funny, the cartoon puts a crown on the corporate caricature, and psychologist describe the character traits of a corporations as being that of a psychopath.

So when the SCOTUS said corporations are people it becomes obvious that the majority of the Worlds population would be better served if these kind of people were not allowed to play King of the hill any longer, but rather, eliminated from the gene pool altogether.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

10. Yeah, the Utopian version of capitalism...

In the real world, it works a little differently

[onwardsand upwards]

11. A cute little propaganda piece

It's fun to spot the holes in the argument.

Why, exactly, would the firm pay workers higher wages? It doesn't really follow, but it sounds so nice.

What happens to the workers when they get replaced by those nice, shiny, new machines?

[SnowCritter]

16. Back when this cartoon was made

the marginal tax rates for companies and individuals was quite high. So, the easiest way to avoid paying taxes was to reduce your profits.

Remember, Profit = Revenues - Expenses.

So, by purchasing new machinery and paying your employees well, you would reduce your profits. These days, with marginal tax rates some of the lowest ever, there is no incentive to pay employees well (there is always an incentive to maintain and/or upgrade equipment).

[onwardsand upwards]

17. A nice try, but ...

... remember that the aim of the corporate game is to maximize after-tax profits, not to minimize tax payments.

To maximize after-tax profits, with a proportional profit tax, you don't want to reduce profits -- you want to increase them. This would mean (for example) paying your employees less (if you can get away with it).

[eggplant]

14. One of my favorites.

[valerief]

18. He puts his pwofit back into the business? He hasn't done that for 40 years! nt