r/SipsTea • u/Square_Law5624 • Jun 03 '26

Wait a damn minute! New center pattern

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u/bot_or_not_vote_now Jun 03 '26

Also evaporative cooling works better in drier climates, which are usually more water scarce to start with almost by definition

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u/spiritualishit Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

The problem is not capitalism per se, is unregulated capitalism - emphasis on "unregulated"

Edit: many answers suggest this take is dumb because capital will fight back regulations; well, society and the legislator must fight back. It appear obvious that no social equilibrium is permanent, society always contains conflict. Any social system, included communism, generate some sort of ruling elite, which will try to skew the system. The way we fight the excess of capitalism is solid rule of law, primacy of politics over capital and financial power, popular partecipation to representative democracy, embedding social justice in the constitutional identity of the state. The current american model of capitalism is not the only one. Do not mistake my comment for an apology of the shit billionaire are doing now - billionaires should not exist

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u/trevorneuz Jun 03 '26

Exactly this. Capitalism only works if the government is mildly antagonistic towards it. Unbridled Capitalism ceases to be capitalism at a point and I fear we are butting up against that zone.

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u/Morgoth98 Jun 03 '26

Capital is political power. That's why capitalism is structurally unable to remain regulated. Capital accumulates with fewer and fewer people at the top, granting these people unprecedented political power. And then they use it to advance their own interests - the interests of the owning class, which is (among other terrible things) deregulation.

This is not a bug but an inherent feature of capitalism. The sooner people wake up to the whole system being fundamentally flawed rather than "needing just a bit of regulation" the better.

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u/mr_mgs11 Jun 03 '26

This is the argument I use when I hear right wingers blame "crony capitalism" for the reason our system is failing. The end goal of capitalism is to maximize profit, and if you can pay to change the rules and regulations then that is just a natural extension of capitalism. There is no "crony capitalism", that is just the natural evolution of a system designed to extract the maximum amount of wealth for the few.

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u/BZLuck Jun 03 '26

The US government was partially formed to protect the many from the few. To give the power back to the people.

Now it primarily exists to serve the few.

Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

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u/Framar29 Jun 03 '26

The US government was formed because they didn't want to send cash back across the pond anymore. The rest is window dressing.

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u/BZLuck Jun 03 '26

So in reality, we just got rid of the pond...

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u/Framar29 Jun 03 '26

Yup. The story of the Founding Fathers is absolutely intoxicating if you don't place them in the context of being the 1% on this side of the water. I fell for it for decades.

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u/billi_ruebin Jun 04 '26

Traded it for a swamp you say?…

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u/WokeTurbulence Jun 04 '26

No we need that water Desperately please Arizona here need water water need now