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BRUH EARLY STAGE CAPITALISM WAS SNAKE OIL, SLAVE TRADE, WORK HOUSES AND CHILDREN IN SALT MINES, WTF DO YOU MEEEEAN?!

And it always has been, we just moved those things to the brown countries and they're coming home now! Fuck you!

Ahem. I'm fine.

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[–] TinyMoose@hexbear.net 21 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

My favorite is "we haven't had REAL capitalism for x years, it's all crony corporatism now". I actually got one of those comments this very week. LOL. Tell me you know absolutely NOTHING about anything in one sentence, plz.

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 12 points 20 hours ago

The only thing that means is that the person is a Keynesian liberal or a straight up fascist who thinks that the companies are woke now

[–] PunkMonk@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

This video lives rent free in my head ngl

Paraphrasing but Barry's economics basically argues:

THIS ISN'T CAPITALISM IT IS SOMETHING ADAM SMITH WARNED AGAINST AND WE DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND IT ENOUGH TO GIVE IT A NAME YET. - It's so infuriating someone can see the world in such a delusional and idiotic way and then spread that slop online to minimal criticism.

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 2 points 17 hours ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: