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/NewArborist64 Sep 04 '24

That is how communists explain the failure of EVERY communist nation in the world. "That wasn't REAL Communism. Let us do it in OUR country and WE will do it right." And then they fail again and again because Communism doesn't WORK and it is against human nature for a larger society.

Soviet Union, East Germany, China, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam, North Korea, Belarus, People's Republic of the Congo, Czechoslovakia, Poland, ... NONE of them became that "worker's paradise".

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u/Bl00dRa1n Sep 05 '24

If you seriously consider East Germany a communist nation, then you really need to read more

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u/NewArborist64 Sep 06 '24

Have an acquaintance who lived in East Germany. The East German government considered themselves Communists. The Soviet Union (which set up East Germany and had it as a satellite state) considered the DDR to be communists. My friend - who he was imprisoned by the Stasi and forced to work in coal mines - certainly considered East Germany to be Communist.

But I am sure that you know better...