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Papa Marx every time a liberal realizes capitalism is the problem. (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by yogthos@lemmygrad.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[+] Cleverdawny@lemm.ee -7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Capitalism is the worst way to run an economy. Except, of course, all other ways which have been tried.

[–] underwire212@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Slavery is one of the worst forms of economic oppression. Except, of course, all other times we tried running the economy without slavery.”

[–] Cleverdawny@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"it's slavery when I work for money" ok clown

[–] underwire212@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wasn’t equating slavery with capitalism here. I was comparing your reasoning with the reasoning of those who argued for the status quo during times of slavery.

[–] Cleverdawny@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Except that at those times, you could absolutely compare slave economies to non slave economies, and the non slave economies were healthier

It's why during the civil war, the north was so much more powerful than the south

Turns out that if you stifle the potential of half your population, lock them in bondage, and assign a significant portion of the rest to watching them, it's not very efficient. It's better to just pay people, even discarding the abominable immorality of slavery and focusing on just economic efficiencies.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 2 years ago

One has to be embarrassingly ignorant to believe that.