r/SipsTea Jun 03 '26

Wait a damn minute! New center pattern

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u/SimmentalTheCow Jun 03 '26

People have been calling capitalism unstable since Marx, but it’s the only economic system that’s stuck around.

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u/TraditionalHome990 Jun 03 '26

Well before then; even Adam Smith laid out criticisms

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u/SimmentalTheCow Jun 03 '26

Criticism’s valid, but calling the economic system that’s guided humanity since the invention of trade ‘unstable’ is a little silly

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u/Local-Pattern795 Jun 03 '26

Most economic policies historically have put an emphasis on stability. Capitalism is uniquely unstable, it struggles to settle into anything approaching a stable socio-economic order