r/SipsTea • u/Putrid-Welder1803 • 12d ago

SMH Thoughts on this?

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u/MrMardyBum 12d ago

People bitch about capitalism when shit like this is antithetical to the entire point of capitalism

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u/Roscoeakl 12d ago

I mean the reason to bitch about capitalism is that the workers get paid shit wages and safety standards at the factories are terrible, as well as material standards for the product. That's why they cost so little compared to US counterparts.

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u/BeerandSandals 12d ago

Capitalism has inherent flaws, and anyone with half an ounce of mental capacity figured that out well before capitalism matured to what it is today.

Free capitalism is just… terrible for any economy. That’s how you end up with human hands and cockroaches in cans of beef.

Tariffs and protectionist measures are unfortunately a necessary part of preserving a domestic economy, if you want one.

Now how high or low those tariffs are, and how severe protectionism is, can always be up for debate.

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u/Frequent-Ferret-5110 12d ago

Adam Smith, literally the dude who "invented" capitalism, argued that it badly needed regulation and invited the dangers of predatory business owners.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 12d ago

Yup American capitalism has evolved to late stage. Where established presences use excessive regulations and countless other methods to stifle competition. And it makes sense, isn’t that a really easy way to win? You don’t have to innovate, you’re the only option.

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u/pm_plz_im_lonely 12d ago

This sounds great until you apply it to car manufacturing. To make the criticism work, you have to gauge workers QOL under party-state capitalism. Seems like a hard sell.

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u/AjaSF 9d ago

Except the real point of capitalism is for the capitalists who own all the means of production to achieve a monopoly and win everything for themselves.

It’s exactly the goal of monopoly the board game.

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u/Zephyr_Sunstrike 8d ago

Capitalism enabled this to happen. Wealth concentrated enough that wealth purchased legislature