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minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoFor all the bitching about capitalism, which basically every country on Earth uses for an economic system, we’re missing 3 key things. We can have unions under capitalism. We can break, or prevent, monopolies under capitalism. Our governments can protect us under capitalism. Everything works fucking great with those 3 ingredients. Imagine that.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoThat’s rather my point! What are we to replace a free market with? Everyone screams SOCIALISM, but no one seems to agree on what that actually means. Shall we do the literal, textbook definition? State ownership of the means of production? That’s been a complete failure. What we need is a capitalist economic system, reigned in by: Unions, to protect the workers Breaking and disallowing monopolies, so they never get so large as to control the government Democratic governments who protect us, voted in by an educated electorate But I repeat myself. I guess the Nordic countries, and most of Europe, who act exactly as I outlined, are failures.
minus-squarejjjalljs@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·3 months agoA free market isn’t really the same as “the owners keep the profits”.
minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoThey’re just throwing out ideological phrases from their indoctrination. Nothing coherent.
minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·3 months ago free market Imagine believing in this nonsense. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion I guess the Nordic countries, and most of Europe, who act exactly as I outlined, Not even close to “exact”. You forgot the centuries of violence, colonialism, imperialism, racism, etc.
minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·3 months agoThese are all laughable but the last one is especially wrong: Our governments can protect us under capitalism against us. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion
For all the bitching about capitalism, which basically every country on Earth uses for an economic system, we’re missing 3 key things.
Everything works fucking great with those 3 ingredients. Imagine that.
As opposed to…
That’s rather my point! What are we to replace a free market with? Everyone screams SOCIALISM, but no one seems to agree on what that actually means.
Shall we do the literal, textbook definition? State ownership of the means of production? That’s been a complete failure.
What we need is a capitalist economic system, reigned in by:
But I repeat myself. I guess the Nordic countries, and most of Europe, who act exactly as I outlined, are failures.
A free market isn’t really the same as “the owners keep the profits”.
They’re just throwing out ideological phrases from their indoctrination. Nothing coherent.
Imagine believing in this nonsense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion
Not even close to “exact”. You forgot the centuries of violence, colonialism, imperialism, racism, etc.
These are all laughable but the last one is especially wrong:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion