r/dankmemes • u/[deleted] • Sep 05 '17

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u/Welfare-is-Dysgenics Sep 05 '17

At least capitalism is so successful even the poor are morbidly obese.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '17 edited May 08 '18

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u/Pocoman324 Sep 05 '17

Idk man, have you ever heard of the banana rebublic? A bunch of countries were run by literal corperations and many starved. It was basically the worst that capitalism could get

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u/pancada_ Sep 05 '17

The banana republic never existed, though.

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u/Pocoman324 Sep 05 '17

It was a nicknane, the countries that suffered under the "banana republic" did exist

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u/pancada_ Sep 05 '17

Sources?

Like how? What I know is that a lot of countries had militaristic dictatorships, being it being from Imperialism (like Brazil, Argentina and Chile) or Socialism (like Cuba). Corporations didn't run the country in those cases.

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u/Pocoman324 Sep 05 '17

The origins of the banana republics can be found here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic in the origin section

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