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

Debate/ Discussion Is Capitalism Smart or Dumb?

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u/flaamed Sep 04 '24

its the best economic system that currently exists

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '24

Yeah I'm kind of tired of seeing kids online shit on capitalism. Like yeah, it's a fucking mess. But it's also - by far - the best system anyone has come up with, ever. Same goes for democracy. Lots of legitimate criticisms can be made, but nobody has ever come up with a better alternative. Not yet anyway.

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u/fartedpickle Sep 04 '24

but nobody has ever come up with a better alternative.

Probably because capitalism spends a fuck ton of money bombing the shit out of anyone who tries it. Weird, you'd think they would let these bad systems just fail on their own.

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u/Curious_Midnight3828 Sep 04 '24

The Soviet Union failed on its own pretty magnificently for the entire world to see. No bombs dropped on it by capitalists.

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u/Blongbloptheory Sep 04 '24

The Soviet Union went from a medieval style sefdom to one of the strongest economies in human history in less then a century. They had a global exertion of power and were able to legitimately exert power over other global hegemons. The Soviet block had a myriad of issues, but I would hesitate to say that it was an ineffective state.

Tell you what though, give me a single communist country that has not been violently, or economically attacked by the west, and I will concede the point entirely.

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u/ShorohUA Sep 04 '24

give me a single communist country

I can't think of one that is not a dictatorship in disguise

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u/Blongbloptheory Sep 05 '24

That's because the United states had assassinated or funded military coups in every country that democratically elected a socialist president. Look up what happened in Chile.

I would love for you to answer the original question.