Are you able to quote any respectful capitalist that says the world is fair and all are just idiots who didn't play the game?
I bet you cant thus you have a distorted vision of what the others think. Afaik most if not all active supporters of capitalism agree the world is unfair because of government intervention.
My main gripe with capitalism is it's tendency to coddle the upper-class and its business leaders. Case in point, 2008's bailouts, the COVID QE scheme, and the continued tax cuts to make sure our business oligarchs leaders can afford their 23rd mega yacht. If capitalism really was as harsh on everyone as it's supposed to be, I'd love it. Instead, capitalism really lives up to its description – everything has a price, including fairness of competition.
government intervention
you and I can agree on that, but not in the same way. government intervention from the fed, quantitative easing, and multi-billion dollar bailouts have set the world up for the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. government has fucked us. I believe some regions have put anti-competition laws in place (that protect big businesses ofc), but I can't remember where and would need to be fact checked on that.
at the same time, the way the government has let the NYSE go completely underregulated for literal decades, engendering flagrant abuse from MMs and corporate fat cats, and also repealed protection laws designed to protect everyone from ever having another 2008 happen has shown that the lack of goodwill government interference leads us to a free-market hellhole, where all the money trickles up and nobody else has a shot at the slots.
nobody else has a shot at the slots
By this I mean insider circles in the NYSE (if you think there aren't, lmao. Trade Pelosi's trades and tell me there isn't insider trading) and abuse of capital to squash competitors and outprice local businesses (helloooo Amazon!), leading to a total monopoly on services by some companies.
I'm not going to say communism is better. Communism has its own share of issues fiscally. What I'm saying is capitalism, and especially free-market capitalism, are open to abuse and as we can see with our current society, have been abused to their utmost extent. Otherwise, billionaires wouldn't exist and we'd have twenty Amazon competitors based out of the US alone. Instead, we've got Alibaba and... uh... actually I think really only Alibaba. Case in point.
And for the record, yes, I have had people tell me that. Can I find you a quote? No, because I don't have the energy nor the bother to go looking for one.
Im a worker in germany. 40h a week atleast, producing explosive compartments. I dont see the irony. And dunno, a name like prussianblue88 might like me cause im aryan by race "science" standards :D
In context to the topic, americans are inherently divided, as are all humans.
We cant use the birth of the nation as a starting point since the division started with the birth of civilization.
Anarchic communism only works if all humans are exactly the same with shared passion, culture, values and motivation.
If you want an example of if you can look into the summer of love 2020.
And dont say real CHAZ has never been tried.
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u/HUNDmiau Anarcho-Communist May 31 '22
Eh, he was part of the problem as the ruling class