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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe definition of capitalism in today's world. All for me. Fuck everyone else.
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The definition of capitalism in today's world. All for me. Fuck everyone else. (Original Post)
Cyrano
Jan 2020
OP
So many Americans IMO are slow learners and seem to revel in being brainwashed and
RKP5637
Jan 2020
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RKP5637
(67,111 posts)1. Capitalism is an obsolete egregious methodology for the 21st century. n/t
Cyrano
(15,043 posts)2. There are those who will fight to the death for it,
even though they are its victims. The word was made into the equivalent of Democracy, God, America in the 20th century. The vast majority of Americans never got the fact that it was holding them down and, in many cases, destroying them.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)4. So many Americans IMO are slow learners and seem to revel in being brainwashed and
taken for suckers. Even the incredible imbalance of wealth in the US does not seem to phase many.
rampartc
(5,420 posts)3. keynes' definition still applies
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. " j m keynes
Arthur_Frain
(1,854 posts)5. Pretty sure that was the definition all along.
nt
MurrayDelph
(5,299 posts)6. I thought that
was Libertarianism.
SWBTATTReg
(22,144 posts)7. That's why I call it predatory capitalism...it's gotten worse w/ the aid and complicity of the...
republicans and the 1%ers over the last 30-40 years...
GeorgeGist
(25,322 posts)8. It isn't capitalism if ...
you don't take more than you give. The difference is P R O F I T !
VOX
(22,976 posts)9. Because privatizing everything in sight is GOOD FOR AMERICA!
Still waiting for those beneficent mega-corporations to solve the homelessness crisis, give billions to support public education, and take care of the healthcare problems that plague the country.
But their adolescent Ayn-Randian bullshit approach only continues to make things worse. (Except for corporations obscene profit.)