No one has tried pure capitalism before so this argument isn’t in good faith.
I really think sarcasm needs to be properly marked in text formats.
Reverse italics would work so well.
However I feel like to be truly good sarcasm, it needs to fly over someone’s head.
Sarcasm doesn’t need to decieve, it needs to make a point IMO.
Making it obvious with a /s or similar takes a away from that I feel
You don’t have faith in the audience’s intelligence?
The question you should be asking is does the audience have enough faith in some random commenter’s intelligence.
Even though the view you expressed is a joke, there are people whose real life politics are a joke.
They have a point though.
There are some cogent points in there, but the author fails to realize that the problem with capitalism is the capitalists themselves. The issues they complain about are the inevitable consequence of allowing capitalists to own the means of production rather than the people. Capitalists care less about being patriotic and doing good deeds than they do about their capital holdings, and an investment in corruption and cronyism is one of the safest bets capitalists with sufficient power can make.
Poe’s Law exists for a reason. One person’s sarcasm could just as easily be another’s genuine take.
Poe’s Law isn’t even codified in most countries.
I do, generally, but I also know that people may not get it not through lack of intelligence, but through neurodivergence. At the bare minimum, if someone asks for clarification it should be given.
At the bare minimum, if someone asks for clarification it should be given
How far are you supposed to take the clarification?
Enough that the other party can understand.
Does this apply to authors and artists too?
Should all metaphors have an explanation?
There’s a pretty big difference between literature and art, and online comments.
Who in the 30% gang here woop woop
Good analogy, as long as that candy jar is the only food available.
And the previous candy jar that this replaced had even more death in it.
False, the gap between rich and poor has never been bigger in all of human history.
Based on what? Pure dollar signs? I would absolutely not want to convert to a fiefdom style monarchy, slave state, or aggregaryen commune because my quality of life would go down in all three. I might have a larger percent of the overall Total money but that doesn’t matter if money stops mattering.
You can’t even defend the system based on It’s own merit. You can only declare other, select systems, to be worse. Try and defend capitalism on it’s own merit. Dont claim things from the passage of time or things that could easily have happened under any economic system like “medicine existing.”
Yes, the death there was represented by the wage theft of the ruling capitalist oligarchs.
Of course, the only options are to be ruled over by capitalist oligarchs or be in a slave state/no technology or literal kings instead of metaphorical ones. Nice one!
I might have a larger percent of the overall Total money but that doesn’t matter if money stops mattering
You pretending to be a billionaire? Also, I’m not sure the argument you’re making because it seems to argue my point better than it does yours.
I said that it’s better than what came before you said that was false with nothing to back that up. Now you write t a whole dissertation about me instead of the topic
I see that having to back things up only extends to me and not you.
You’re the one that made it off topic though. You’re the one with the ad hominins. If you want to go back on topic you’ll have to start. I’m not going to sit here and be berated by someone who doesn’t want to actually discuss history.
Like we have a choice with society. I love calling peers bootlickers because they are trying to survive and possibly having more success than you.
Hate the game not the player. What’s the economic equivalent of an incel?
Chud
Don’t hate the player hate the game
People can hate both. For example, we can hate both Musk for being a democracy hating piece of shit AND the system that enabled him and his like to buy an election. Using a blanket term like that catches all within said game, just to be clear
See and I disagree. Musk is a piece of shit yes but he’s merely playing the game better for a large variety of reasons.
My point being, the game is not the problem. The problem is assholes. This happens in capitalism. It happens in communism. It happens everywhere. The problem is not the system the problem is assholes.
Adam Smith would be rolling in his grave if he saw what became of capitalism.
Hell yeah dude, you’re 12
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Learn what fascism actually is. It’s not just a synonym for “thing I don’t like”
Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian political ideology emphasizing extreme nationalism, a strong central state, militarism, and the subordination of individual rights to the nation’s perceived unity and strength, often led by a dictator. It emerged in early 20th-century Europe.
Sorry that you can’t make communism and fascism interchangeable.
Life is good. Life isn’t about getting more of what you want. Its about wanting more of what you have.
Start a gratitude journal and rework your brain.
Patrick Bateman shit
