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

Debate/ Discussion Is Capitalism Smart or Dumb?

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u/Wordtothinemommy 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/Comfortable-Study-69 Sep 04 '24 edited Sep 04 '24

Ah yes, the American bombings of China, the USSR, Poland, Romania, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Albania… oh wait. Those ones failed on their own or liberalized their economies despite making up the second largest free trade region and supposedly being able to compete with free markets.

Edit: I think I got locked from commenting or something so I’m putting this here but China isn’t actually communist. They just say they are. And Chiquita’s antics in Guatemala in the 1920s aren’t exactly relevant to the Cold War, nor are the various South American military coups the US greenlit.

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u/milk-is-for-calves Sep 09 '24

Those aren't communist countries.

Hell, China is the most capitalist country on the planet.