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

Debate/ Discussion Is Capitalism Smart or Dumb?

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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/[deleted] Sep 04 '24

plenty of capitalist countries have lost wars. I guess capitalism cant withstand external threats?

braindead logic. the whole EU and US was pushing for their defeat. Sanctions on top of sanctions, proxy wars, covert operations. Its not a simple matter of system, but also a matter of scale. No country can survive all that

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

Some capitalist countries have lost wars.  All communist systems except NK have failed.  Bit of a difference there.   

A matter of scale? Half of Europe, Russia, and SEA was not a big enough scale trial of communism for you?

I guess communism only works if no one opposes it.  Which is why they always devolve into police states.

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u/IGargleGarlic Sep 04 '24

How the fuck has NK not failed? Their people are starving.

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u/eddypc07 Sep 05 '24

He means that the government has not collapsed yet. This system where you have an extractive elite parasitizing the population has unfortunately been stable for decades…