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In reply to the discussion: You know what, f*ck Capitalism... [View all]pnwmom
(108,977 posts)48. Good post. Thanks!
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How many of them rely on a vast underclass of poor laborers to sustain their economies?
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#5
Not to mention dirt cheap energy, which allowed mass production for decades on end.
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#7
Its not just history either, think of what you are talking about as the macro-scale of what...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#14
Japan doesn't rely on a vast underclass of poor laborers to sustain their economy.
betsuni
Mar 2019
#30
What you are saying is that Japan doesn't consume products produced elsewhere in the world...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#58
Here's an example: Reuters: Subaru Success Fueled By Marginalized Foreign Workers
SaintLouisBlues
Mar 2019
#38
A socialist country would assign you a job (or a bread ration if you were more unfortunate).
riverine
Mar 2019
#16
Again with the repeats, and how many impoverished people have to suffer for those economies to be...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#20
So the typical Swede - with their Free Market Capitalist economy is what we need to
riverine
Mar 2019
#22
A typical Swede owes much of their current lifestyle due to the exploitation...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#24
Ha! Humanist_Activist was forced to admit that the Nordic model of capitalism is superior to
riverine
Mar 2019
#35
Never said that, insaid their high standard of living comes at the expense of the working class....
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#42
Socialism has even less success in having produced countries with lifestyles like a typical Swede.nt
pnwmom
Mar 2019
#47
You can't give a single example of an actual country. Maybe it's because it doesn't account
pnwmom
Mar 2019
#68
You do realize that's not the only model that exists or can exist, right?
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#55
That's not the only type of socialism that exists, you really have a lot to learn...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#64
Not necessarily, in its more extreme form, the state is dissolved, a lot of people like being on...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#77
Shit, I didn't even get into the illegal shit, like some of the practices at Wal-Mart I observed...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#19
Powerful post. You've really underscored what's wrong with our system and the mentality
jcmaine72
Mar 2019
#25
Bullshit. Elements of both capitalism and socialism are necesarry, it isn't either or. As for
still_one
Mar 2019
#26
less unions, they can screw the workers. ooh, reaganism was such a DEAL i tells yah.
pansypoo53219
Mar 2019
#29
Let's not even get into it's ageism or how it treats the long-term unemployed.
HughBeaumont
Mar 2019
#37
All of our problems are really one problem. The world has a billionaire problem.
rwsanders
Mar 2019
#51
While I agree that wealth inequities are a huge problem, they are a symptom of how....
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#57
Capitalism doesn't have to operate that way. The Nordic countries practice regulated capitalism
pnwmom
Mar 2019
#69
Can they operate that way without exploiting millions of people in the 3rd world for cheap labor? nt
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#72
Yes, thanks to the advent of robotics. But you still haven't given a single example
pnwmom
Mar 2019
#73
because there is none yet, and actually, that brings up another point, if automation displaces...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#74
They would be fine in a system with regulated capitalism, like in the Nordic countries. n/t
pnwmom
Mar 2019
#76
Because their capitalistic system can already adjust to changes in the work force,
pnwmom
Mar 2019
#79
But it adjusts by finding another population or resource to exploit, but what happens when that...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#85
How would your one-world fantasy socialism work? We saw how the largest socialistic
pnwmom
Mar 2019
#86
Given the history of capitalism, that has yet to be demonstrated. N/T
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#87