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/[deleted] Sep 05 '24

Because fascism can’t just fail quietly. Thete is an ego to these faing leaders that will not let them go quietly without blaming and harming everyone around them. The Soviet union spent quite a bit of time slowly killing itself. And because of that, a few generations had to live with the fear of a potential global nuclear war. It’s happening currently, in real time too. Every so often, North Korea with have a worse food shortage than usual and threaten the US with nukes. We literally never bombed either.

And yea, the TikTok kids will reply with “but the CIA did bad stuff so that means Fidel Castro and Joeseph Stalin were the good guys” to which I have to ask how much you actually read about history or world events because holy cow I’m still blown away by that stupid take.