this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2025
75 points (84.4% liked)

Memes

46717 readers
2406 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (11 children)

@yogthos

The funny part is the capitalist are just as fond of centralized command and control economies as they said they never were.

And the capitalist well they’re giving the whole system very bad name at the moment much more than say in the last 10 years.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Exactly, capitalism ends up being just a handful of monopolies owned by the oligarchs as opposed to state owned companies owned by the public.

[–] GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai 5 points 3 days ago (9 children)

@yogthos

At best you can say if you have a system of profits and markets that that system is exquisitely fragile and soon becomes something entirely different.

These simple observations are why I relentlessly mock mainstream economics, particularly neoliberal ideas.

Uncle Milty Mr. free market fundamentalist himself, was paid to say things that like monopoly are just fine,

..

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 days ago

We had oligarch Peter Thiel express this publicly too in a recent speech, "competition is for losers, our goals are monopolies".

load more comments (8 replies)
load more comments (8 replies)
load more comments (8 replies)