I’m Chinese. Farmers under communist China illegally reintroduced capitalist mechanisms like market incentives to survive. It was so successful it was adopted by the whole country. It was called 包产到户, look it up. Capitalism was how my people got out of famines.
Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Capitalism have many benefits that comes naturally from the system, it just needs some restraints, socialism has good intentions, but it erases the benefits of capitalism while offering none in their places.
Bawbawian on
what if I told you what your experiencing right now isn’t actual capitalism it’s Reaganomics on steroids.
I have no interest in a system in which people can’t start small businesses.
we could literally regulate ourselves out of this problem if the left could bother voting ever.
DJK695 on
What’s crazy is if you say anything about taxing the rich on TikTok – those posts will be flooded with people glazing billionaires. I don’t make the posts but see them often.
To0zday on
Dumb
themonkeysknow on
“The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”
DsgtCleary on
That’s crazy, my fridge doesn’t look like that
Buddha-Embryo on
The world we live in: “Better for a tiny fraction to have more than they could need if they lived a thousand lives rather than all having enough to survive.
If that sounds so irrational that is actually *insane*, that is because it is.
Safe-Split3620 on
ngl true, it’s like fascism thrives in chaos. no system is immune to its toxic influence tbh
Thetman38 on
It’s not about capitalist vs socialist, it’s about priorities. Socialism when you directly feed the hungry, capitalism even you subsidize corporations
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That figure seems frighteningly low.
I’m Chinese. Farmers under communist China illegally reintroduced capitalist mechanisms like market incentives to survive. It was so successful it was adopted by the whole country. It was called 包产到户, look it up. Capitalism was how my people got out of famines.
Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Capitalism have many benefits that comes naturally from the system, it just needs some restraints, socialism has good intentions, but it erases the benefits of capitalism while offering none in their places.
what if I told you what your experiencing right now isn’t actual capitalism it’s Reaganomics on steroids.
I have no interest in a system in which people can’t start small businesses.
we could literally regulate ourselves out of this problem if the left could bother voting ever.
What’s crazy is if you say anything about taxing the rich on TikTok – those posts will be flooded with people glazing billionaires. I don’t make the posts but see them often.
Dumb
“The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”
That’s crazy, my fridge doesn’t look like that
The world we live in: “Better for a tiny fraction to have more than they could need if they lived a thousand lives rather than all having enough to survive.
If that sounds so irrational that is actually *insane*, that is because it is.
ngl true, it’s like fascism thrives in chaos. no system is immune to its toxic influence tbh
It’s not about capitalist vs socialist, it’s about priorities. Socialism when you directly feed the hungry, capitalism even you subsidize corporations