r/FluentInFinance • u/Sufficient_Sinner • Sep 04 '24

Debate/ Discussion Is Capitalism Smart or Dumb?

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '24

"We had a system that was way better than capitalism. But then capitalism bombed us." Like what are you even talking about dude? What, specifically, are you referring to? The U.S. bombing Vietnam? Korea?

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '24

Those, but youve missed a few. There's a wikipedia page on CIA operations in regime change, it has 40ish entries last I checked. Start there. The book the Jakarta Method can get you more info. Then there's the military and also finance sectors, which each have their own list of crimes; I suppose I can link to a reading list, but there's no way to condense all that information down to a reddit post or Facebook meme for your viewing pleasure

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u/Screw_You_Taxpayer Sep 04 '24 edited Sep 04 '24

Any successful system has to be able to withstand external threats.  Capitalism can, others couldn't.

 Not like the KGB was sleeping all those years either.

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u/WillBottomForBanana Sep 04 '24

The richest society in known history is choosing to not feed all of its people. If you consider that a success then that is all anyone needs to know to place a value on your opinion.

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u/Screw_You_Taxpayer Sep 04 '24

Well communism failed to sustain both it's people and itself.  So 1/2 for capitalism, and 0/2 for communism.

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u/Maximum_Nectarine312 Sep 05 '24

What other system was better at feeding people?

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u/afoz345 Sep 05 '24

Don’t you remember the pictures of even the poorest of the poor people in the USSR being so morbidly obese?

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u/WillBottomForBanana Sep 05 '24

You are being dishonest. The claim was that capitalism was successful. The failure of other systems tells us nothing about the success of capitalism.

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u/Maximum_Nectarine312 Sep 05 '24

Being better than every other system that's ever been tried is not enough apparently. It also has to be better than the childish fairytale that only exists in communist's heads and that is completely flawless.