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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Perfect. Did the creator CC it? Is there an SVG?

Love the hue of yellow. Looks like old man's piss.

edit: at least I found the original on xcancel

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

That image still doesn’t seem to be a vector.

I love this, so I took a moment and recreated it as a vector image. Here it is if anyone wants it for printing or whatever. I squared the edges so it's more versatile, too. (Sorry for the google links, I know it's ironic and not ideal. The preview looks weird, but the file will download fine.)

Capitalism_Flag.svg

[–] Fabian@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think it should be purple. Historically, that was the color of the royalty and the wealthy

[–] eureka@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago

Yellow/Gold is historically the colour representing liberalism (as in capitalism), which has a solid history of ending royal monarchies.

[–] mittyta@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Does yellow say something?

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It represents trickle-down.

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Golden Shower of wealth if you will.

[–] Thassodar@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A bukkake of freedom and choices.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have no words for how much I hate this

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

That's one of the reasons I hate it so much lol

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

If your bukkake is that color, you should seek medical assistance.

[–] skye@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

I suppose it's meant to represent the colour of gold

[–] RidderSport@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

The combination of yellow white and black is the colour scheme of the Russian Empire

[–] Arondeus@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Hmm. This is a good start. I feel like it needs to better express the feeling of being a squishy human, being ground up in the relentless and uncompromising gears of the machine. Maybe throw some gears lubricated with blood on that badboy...

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

capitalism crush

capitalism crush with blood

.XCF

License? Not sure the pictogram is licensed, the rest is just a yellow background … I have no personal stakes here.

PS: meanwhile someone found the SVG, MIT license.

[–] Arondeus@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Wow. This is awesome! Nice work.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Adding a second “dollar sign” with a hand getting crushed works I think.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Very nice, I think I might make a sticker of this. If you don’t mind.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Go for it! Not sure the pictogram is licensed, the rest is just a yellow background ... I have no personal stakes here.

There's a version with blood further up.

[–] Wildfire0Straggler3@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

Trump's gold card...

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Honestly I think the flag of USA kinda represents capitalism itself. Or the dollar sign

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago

It's because Capitalism is the nonexistent boogeyman used by eastern dictatorships to describe nations they didn't like. If you get into what different people think capitalism is then you end up with a no true scottsman problem, if the definition is to broad then it also describes the "communisms" but if it's too narrow then there are much better terms to use for each hyper specific case such as Liberalism, Libertarianism, Market System, Oligopoly, Plutocracy, or Laissez Faire Capitalism.