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We’ve never tried pure capitalism so we shouldn’t knock it until we’ve given it a fair shake.

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I mean, with legal political corruption, and everything being private down to healthcare and prisons, I guess US is pretty much on it.

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We totally did try pure capitalism. It mostly led to naked children in coal mines (because their clothes would get stuck on the sides of the super narrow mining shafts, you see) and pepper with iron fillings (because scrap iron was cheaper than actual pepper). Also a lot of other horrifying stuff, but those two have always stuck out to me.

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Blood iron levels plummeted after that pepper stopped being fortified and if the children don’t like their jobs or how they are treated they can find new ones.

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truth is they yearn for the mines

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There’s good money to be had shucking oysters.

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Funny because it you talk to libertarians, we’ve never had a pure capitalist society. You probably just don’t realize how similar they all are to the people who claim we’ve never tried our Communism.

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they all are to the people who claim we’ve never tried our Communism.

When you dont know the difference between socialism and communism

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10 points

I hear Walter White brews some pretty pure capitalism. Maybe we should try his stuff.

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Check Argentina if you want to see what happens when you want to try “pure” capitalism lol Also not like there’s been a shitton of books written describing in detail it’s contradictions, which apparently you choose to ignore and espouse liberal ideology instead

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Argentina hasn’t had anything resembling a free market economy in the past hundred years, but the 8 months of austerity to fix that shit sandwich is the best example of ‘pure capitalism’ you can come up with?

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I specifically used that example because Javier Milei espouses the same nonsense as OP I replied to did. The ideology is very similar, and you can see how it materializes lol

Why so hostile? Name a different example and fuck off?

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5 points

I just spat out my drink.

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4 points

Lmaoooooo

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3 points

Man, that was an easy bait wasn’t it.

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A seventeen minute video is too long.

Can you summarize it into a snappy and humoros sentence or two?

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Anarcho-Capitalism?

More like Anarcho-CRAPitalism!

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I saw this video like 3 years ago and somehow I’ve instinctively knew I was about to see it again before I clicked the link.

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I don’t automatically recognize posters on Lemmy but when I do, its SatansMaggotyCumFart.

Which makes me ask, how do you identify politically?

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I’m pretty open about my politics so if you’ve seen my postings you should have a pretty good idea.

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Fair enough, I figured I’d ask, in case you wanted to declare a specific position. I know most people don’t like being put in boxes.

I guess I’ll look through some posts and speculate from there.

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Capitalism has a strong state because with it is more competitive than capitalism without state intervention, and it also needs more protection from revolution than it used to.

Literally just have an understanding of history and your meme ideology will be a thing of your past that is a little embarrassing

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Oh I don’t get embarrassed easily.

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