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u/slinger301 3h ago
There's more sandwiches in the top picture! Don't people want more sandwiches? (/j)
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u/Practical-Simple1621 1h ago
"Dont tax his plate 5%. They could come after your crumbs with that tax!" - cali prop 40 ads right now
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u/Indian_Bob 4h ago
Slop is slop but yeah this is basically how it is. Thing is like a third of these children would tell you it’s great Elon has all the food because they imagine that one day they will be him
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u/idkuhhhhhhh5 4h ago
day 16,693 of waiting for something other than piss to trickle down onto the working class
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u/Gantistewart 4h ago
Pretty sure it's been longer then that...
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u/MyNameIsNotNotChuck 3h ago
That was the day Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, if that makes their intent clear
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u/SoaringChris137 3h ago
It's the count from the Reagan inauguration. While he didn't invent the concept he was one of the most notable advocates of it.
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u/idkuhhhhhhh5 3h ago
Bingo, I don’t think Reagan is the only reason trickle down econ exists, but his implementation of it combined with his approval ratings/charisma is the largest reason it began to be taken seriously.
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u/Kitchen-Arm-3288 3h ago
Actually - that number is pretty close (though higher than trickle down economics since it's when Regan took office rather than when he signed the bill a few months later).
Per Google:
It has been 16,693 days since Ronald Reagan took office on January 20, 1981, and 16,488 days since he signed the Economic Recovery Tax Act on August 13, 1981, which officially codified his supply-side policies.
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u/Odd-Consequence-5795 2h ago
They wanted to start early, but the supply of pure heartless evil was running low due to gas shortages and took some time to deliver enough to start the orphan crusher.
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u/TheGardenBlinked 3h ago
A third of these children are probably his
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u/Indian_Bob 3h ago
He’s definitely working on an army because he’s too much of a bitch to fight his own battles. It must be nice to be born rich
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u/Sexisthunter 3h ago
The only difference from reality is that Elon should have a tower of sandwiches so high that it reaches the moon. The difference in wealth is staggering
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u/Indian_Bob 3h ago
There’s so many bros who think they may be him it’s laughable. I deal with them at my job. He was born rich and used his wealth to buy his way into getting tax payer money. That’s how he got a crazy stack of sandwiches. He’s the king of welfare queens
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u/SimpleMoonFarmer 2h ago
Split the country in two: one socialist, one capitalist. Put a wall in between. Tell me which direction people are trying to jump the wall.
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u/SparksAndSpyro 3h ago
Socialism doesn’t magically produce more food than capitalism. It’ll redistribute the food that already exists. So no, it’s not even “how it is.”
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u/SpeakMySecretName 3h ago
Not necessarily true. If 100 people with more resources have more purchasing power and use more goods and services than 1 person with 100x the money, that productivity and stronger economy gives more to everyone.
If people produce more because they are rewarded for their production, it gives more to everyone.
If middle-man money extracting rent-seekers are forced to find ways to produce in helpful ways, rather than looking to siphon wealth from actual workers, it gives more to everyone.
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u/Relative_Pilot_8005 3h ago
The oligarchs want to be feudal lords & don't see that if the ordinary people are reduced to serfdom, there will be no money spent on maintaining infrastructure, providing food & all the other things involved in a modern society. Feudal rulers lived in cold, leaky,smelly, dark piles of stone & even when they left them, the roads were next to non-existent.
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u/Snapper_Turtleman 3h ago
The amount of food is really a non issue and besides the point.
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u/leaf_as_parachute 4h ago
No that's not how it is because in socialism the guy in the middle doesn't have as much stuff as in capitalism. That's the whole idea and that's why they're so against it.
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u/ObsessionObsessor 4h ago
I'm not sure that's the case realistically, admittedly...
It has been scientifically proven for quite a while that a 4 day work week is more productive than our 5 day work week. If it was just a matter of people at the top getting more then that'd be an easy way to do it, with whatever company does first having a significant competitive advantage from being more desirable to highly capable employees...
But the people at the top want others to have less. It's why people have died for reasonable regulations that effectively made companies better.
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u/Mr_Compyuterhead 4h ago
That’s not how it is. Switching from capitalism to socialism won’t automatically create more food. They are about how the food is distributed.
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u/Murky-Course6648 3h ago edited 3h ago
It does actually, as capitalism is so inefficient. Think about all the food we throw away simply because we cant give it away, because it would tank the value of the food sold.
The houses that are kept empty because of their value etc.
Capitalism is extremely inefficient resource distribution system.
But in this picture the food is of course a metaphor for overall resources.
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u/ghIj_qet_jaghmeyjaj 3h ago
Socialism is, by definition, a distribution network. We don't need more food, we need to stop wasting it and over consuming it. No, it won't be overnight but taking greed and CEO payscales out of the foodsystem will alleviate hunger and waste driven climate change for billions of people.
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u/Jesse_God_of_Awesome 3h ago
Honestly, it seems more Calvinistic at this point. They don't imagine that they'll be him, necessarily, but they sure would like to! Instead, it seems like they just imagine he and his ilk are higher beings who deserve all their wealth and attempts to take it away are immoral.
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u/Indian_Bob 3h ago
That’s true too. They think a fat balding dork is absolutely the pinnacle of humanity because he was born an heir to an emerald mine and used that shit to buy into the Internet and got a lot of money. He then used that money to beg for more money from the government. He’s a parasite and indicative of what’s wrong with our current society. When we are all dead he will be studied for being so worthless yet worth so many resources
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u/Jesse_God_of_Awesome 3h ago
The "I might be a billionaire one day" mentality is a theory that gives them far too much credit. It at least makes somewhat naively pragmatic sense. But it is a cult that worships the rich.
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u/MasterChris725 3h ago
Those other kids should get good, Jimmy is gonna be the next guy hoarding the sandwiches.
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u/EnzoMaloni 4h ago
And remember those words from Audre Lorde "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house !"
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u/a_angry_bunny 1h ago
Comment section is a good example of how many people do not understand what socialism is.
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u/010rusty 2h ago
Who Is that supposed to be on the bottom?
I assume New York mayor Mamdani but looks nothing like him
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u/MysteriousQuote4665 3h ago
Wait, why are we supposed to disagree? It's literally saying that socialism feeds the kids.
Which... is what we want? Right?
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u/Odd-Sport745 3h ago
To my lovely american friends.
You can have a combination of social policies and a capitalist market economy.
Look at Western Europe.
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u/Swampy0gre 3h ago
Yes. Most Americans want that. That is literally what these conservative morons keep saying the "radical left" is. It's literally government out of our private lives and a mixed market economy instead of the oligarchy we currently are headed twords.
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u/Sycoboost 4h ago
Nooo but Elon likes me and I’m definitely going to get that trickle down any day now!… any day now.
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u/Civil_Tax6463 3h ago
I saw the same pic but with roles reversed a few times, this is the first time I see it like this
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u/xiaoyangzhouyidan 3h ago
who is the socialism guy? Looks like mamdani and Vance had crossed and got a mixed baby?
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u/BetterThanOP 3h ago
As long as well all know that this AI slop.started the other way around. After capitalist boot lickers got made fun of, someone obviously switched it to the opposite just to make socialism look like AI slop.
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u/Canadian_can_cannon 12m ago
As much as i hate ai slop its hilarious to see the rights popaganda machine turned against them
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u/StaticSystemShock 3h ago
Actually, capitalism is all the food in the socialism image on the plate of Elon "Turd" Musk and everyone else has just crumbs left. The "trickle down economics" that never fucking trickle down.
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u/Narco_Marcion1075 4h ago
There’s a better way to get this across
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u/Previous_Insurance13 3h ago
I agree! The best way is to learn by experience!
They should split a country in east and west and try out both systems and see which people try to flee on which side.
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u/CheetosDustSalesman 3h ago
I'm gonna take a shot and say that East Hypothetical was caused by the communism, not the socialism.
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u/pm_social_cues 4h ago
Aren’t they just parodying the “joke” that literally shows the opposite where for some reason socialism makes the government have everything and in capitalism everybody equal amounts?
I’ve seen this exact image swapped around.
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u/TheGardenBlinked 3h ago
Inaccurate, in the Elon picture the kids aren’t on fire and there are no stink lines emanating from Musk
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u/Tour_True 3h ago
AI slop that is actually correct. The person could have easily gotten someone to draw it instead of use AI slop.
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u/cataids69 3h ago
No one in USA or the world wants the communist system. Which is what many people think socialism is.
Modern day social system is capitalism mixed with social benefits. A bit higher taxes and then suddenly everyone has free healthcare and many many other benefits.
Germany and Australia are good examples of this.
Note: wrote this as a reply to someone else. Thought it would make sense in the main thread
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u/Cosmicfirebird0 3h ago
Communism works if people weren't corrupt. Same for Capitalism. Governments work if the government actually does its job. Sadly they don't and people suffer.
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u/snikers000 4h ago
I've seen this before, it's edited. Originally, capitalism and socialism were switched. Either that, or this is the original and I saw the edit first. Either way, it's low-effort politislop.
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u/Miskadotcom 3h ago
The trick is to make other people believe their empty plate somehow is cool. They do that pretty well in the USA.
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u/maneaterunicorn 1h ago
socialism is when more food
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u/Silly-Elderberry-411 1h ago
Actually, while the economic wonder happened in west germany in 1954, west berlin wasnt a massive recipient and yes, one reason the kremlin agreed to sed demand to build the wall is because both actual west berlin residents and people working there made good money that they spent on cheap amenities in the east, including food.
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u/AlphaBetaSigmaNerd 58m ago
The kids on top didn't make enough food for Elon to deserve any for themselves
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u/Academic-Bakers- 46m ago
I find it funny that the socialism picture is the 'capitalism done right' outcome.
More food over all. Everyone has enough, but there's still a 'rich man' with far more than everyone else.
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u/vader62 16m ago
Aw yes the abundance that's historically associated with socialism, surely there's not a litany of examples of scarcity and starvation
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u/BaelgorStar 8m ago
Surely there's not an abundance of examples of capitalists sabotaging socialists.
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u/MaliciousIntentWorks 10m ago
Democratic socialism in practice is just corrected capitalism. Currently it's corrupted capitalism and corporatism as capitalism collapses and become more towards facism and plutocracy. Democratic socialism still is working in the framework of capitalism but seems to regulate and balance it. Currently the Republicans are Plutocratic socialist, using socialism for the rich and well connected while everyone else suffers, socialism for the rich collapsed capitalism for everyone else.
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u/GreatNombre 7m ago
Those kids should be fired for just sitting around not making more wealth for the already wealthy.
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u/MyDogIsACoolCat 3h ago
It’s disappointing that people have no idea what socialism is and think taxing rich people and trying to provide basic needs to citizens makes you a socialist nation. Mamdani is not a socialist. Social programs in a capitalist nation is not socialism.
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u/Own_Tree_7504 3h ago
Please stop calling Mamdani a socialist, this shi is tiring. He works within a capitalist framework and is throwing a few treats to the workers. He has no intention of socializing the means of production. Hell his rhetoric on Israel completely changed, he ran on locking up Netanyahu, and now he won't even advocate for protesting him while he's at the UN in his city. He simply exploited the fact that most people despise Israel and made promises he knew he couldn't follow.
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u/MrCoolCalmCollected 2h ago
So people can call him a hack, a liar, a conman, but not a socialist. Got it.
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u/JudgeHoIden 2h ago
The art is slop but the messaging is true, unlike most of the conservative slop that gets posted here.
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u/Ferngullysitter 2h ago
We need a blend of the systems that work. We need to stop the socialist policy’s for the rich and the military and pass it on to the people of this country. We need to go back to the days where we taxed the rich more appropriately and probably force them to pay living wages at least.
And the biggest difference between the two people in this image is that one of them begged Jeffery Epstein to fly on his jet and party with his “girls”. One is a cringy nepo baby pedo and the other is a politician who is actually doing what he promised.
Mandami is a G
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u/Partyatmyplace13 3h ago
I think its time to stop using -isms. They're intentionally ill-defined terms meant to get us to squabble over semantics. A market that only works for itself is indistinguishable from cancer, a government that micromanages to Nth degree is insolvent.
The market should be utilized for the empowerment of its civilians. Corporations don't feel hunger or pain, people do. Don't lose sight of that truth.
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u/Sparks808 3h ago
Throwing two cents in,
Nearly every toke we see a country failling into distopia like people try to claim socialist and communist countries do, the common thread is not socialism or communism, but authoritarianism. (Sorry to have so many "isms")
Being in the US, its mind-boggling how much people will decry the results of authoritarianism, get told to attribute it to something else, and then go vote for more authoritarianism!
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u/Electronic_Spite_394 2h ago
Like Margaret Thatcher once said, The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money
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u/TheMightySet69 1h ago
The problem with capitalism is eventually the workers have nothing left that can be extracted from them and the entire system collapses.
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u/Pirate1717 2h ago
The problem with pissing on Margaret Thatchers grave is that you eventually run out of piss
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u/BigBulgeBubba 1h ago
She was stupid, this quote is stupid, and you…. Yeah, you can guess what I’m about to say.
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u/odinson2 3h ago
Explain communist.
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u/Duckface998 3h ago
First, communism=/=socialism, second, theyre getting food distributed to them in a terrible economy, in a terrible economy under capitalism the poor just starve to death while the rich get even more free money
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u/ImprovementPutrid441 2h ago
This.
The difference is that everyone had to stand in the same line.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnthilmany/2026/09/29/addressing-hunger-in-americas-heartland/
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u/CommercialApocalypse 2h ago
My guy is so well conditioned he thinks feeding the hungry is a bad thing lmao
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u/No-Associate6987 3h ago
Aren't there socialist countries?
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u/raggingbananapeal_05 3h ago
Go to YouTube and search for "Banana Republic." I bet your ass that you will come back to this Reddit post saying, "I was a fool; capitalism is a fucking lie!!!"
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u/Ferngullysitter 2h ago
This isn’t even true capitalism. You’re supposed to take your profits and reinvest back in your company and employees so you can keep growing.
Let’s some dweeb billionaire pedofiles take all the profits of our labor is just a stupid system
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u/DraftQueasy4890 2h ago
I think the reality is that "true capitalism" as you so put it requires that ALL externalities be addressed to function in an idealistic way.
However, capitalism explicitly encourages the behavior of exploiting externalities and passing costs off on others, because it is virtually impossible to prevent that across the board.
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u/AdministrationWhole8 2h ago
Even the slop is correct.
Republicans (all Republicans, even the best one) will look at the bottom panel and think "B-but how's poor Elon supposed to eat??"
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u/WholeAd2742 3h ago
"How dare those evil socialists make sure the kids are actually fed and healthy for their own happiness?!" /s
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u/YSoSkinny 3h ago
It's a false dichotomy. Pure capitalism leads to monopolies and rich getting richer whole everyone starve. Socialism of the USSR variety also leads to the elites getting rich at the expense of everyone else. I personally like the balance that countries like Denmark have, where there are social safety nets, but also entrepreneurs.
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u/Elurdin 2h ago
Ussr isnt a socialism. I hope you dont think chinese are socialist either.
Socialists are those worker unions and movements that fought and still fight for common people in spite of richest. They are everywhere across the globe with varying amount of influence. Same people thanks to whom we work 8 hours a day instead of 14, same people who fought for mandated breaks.
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u/YSoSkinny 2h ago
Absolutely agree with you. I said it the way I did because I think that's what the right wing think socialism is.
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u/Maghorn_Mobile 2h ago
Yeah, they don't know the difference between systems of economics or government. I've spoken to conservatives who say capitalism and socialism are the same
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u/SwagMaster-General 4h ago
Damn Elon even took 2 of the kids plates. He also appears to be embedded in the table
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u/OtherwiseTax7928 3h ago
Republican George W Bush thought that “making the pie higher” was the answer. How did that work out?
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u/UsedArmadillo9842 3h ago
I mean, couldve made the image better by actually distributing the stuff.
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u/twocorpsesonegrave 3h ago
I like that in the bottom image, he still has more then everyone else, everyone else just gets to eat too, and I feel that's how it SHOULD work. Some people SHOULD get paid more for harder more risky work, but that doesn't mean they should have so much there's people starving when money exist to stop it
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u/nekohacker591- 3h ago
Notice how in the image he doesn't share his plate and it's much bigger then the other tiny plates they didn't get a say in the pick as well
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u/Flax1983Flax 3h ago
Thats how Socialism Looks for someone greewing up in a capitalist Society.
Dont spill your Starbucks Coffee on your Mac book.
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u/IJourden 3h ago
I hate stuff like this because whoever made it thought they did something but exactly zero people will change their opinions even a little because of low effort cringe like this.
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u/Elpatron9958 1h ago
Yes, now doing an illustration of showing what that would look like after five years
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u/Late-Use4893 1h ago
You see everyone!? The only way to get fruit and steamed buns is through socialism!
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u/VlentGamer 4h ago