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PieceOfParchment7 44 points ago +45 / -1

If you play a guitar on a corner, should you get the money that people put in your cup?

If your answer is yes, then you agree with capitalism.

If your answer is no, you are a fucking idiot.

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Fake_Snooze 9 points ago +9 / -0

So which banks are we moving to?

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ALargeRock 26 points ago +27 / -1

Credit unions. Keep local.

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Newuser9 6 points ago +7 / -1

Crypto or cash

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DrCowboyPresident 31 points ago +32 / -1

The 'Late Stage Capitalism' people may have a point.

The money grubbers have metastasized, and the world is turning into total Corporate rule.

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Lepreco-Inc 8 points ago +8 / -0

And late stage capitalism proposes to just officially make the corporate entities they complain about, part of the govt and take more power from the individual.

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ProudWhiteMan 5 points ago +5 / -0

Corporations are people so I wouldn't be surprised that they start pushing for companies to have voting rights by how many people they employ. I think today there was a post with a washington compost article citing "the elites should have more voice in the democratic process"

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1776er 7 points ago +9 / -2

It's not late stage capitalism, it's crony capitalism. This is not what capitalism has to turn into, we have just allowed business and government to get too cozy

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FLmanTampa64 3 points ago +3 / -0

Crony capitalism, which over time transforms to a corporatist economic/political system. We used to call that fascism, but it usually goes by the name of 'equity' of late.

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randomusers239874 -1 points ago +2 / -3

Capitalism includes in the ability to choose who you do business with, no crony capitalism needed. Technically, if you want to force the bank to do business with individuals, you'd want national socialism.

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ProudWhiteMan 2 points ago +2 / -0

Corporate oligarchy, big tech has hijacked the government. Capitalism will still exist underneath it since we won't go back to bartering any time soon

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the-new-style 1 point ago +1 / -0

"Late Stage Capitalism" is when the marginal value of labour falls to zero.

Marx thought this would be in late 19th Century Britain and Germany, as the industrial powerhouses of the world. Over 100 years later and the economies of every country in the world are still growing.

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Julius_Severus 11 points ago +11 / -0

However you want to phrase it, allowing people who hate you to all but operate a banking and media cartel in your nation is a really bad idea

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1776er -8 points ago +1 / -9

It's so funny that Jews get kicked out of every industry, so they make two their own and now everybody is bitching about it. Start your own banks and media companies then, nobody is making you use Jewish services. Go find a bank that isn't run by Jews and use its services, except it'll probably be bankrupt within the year

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Julius_Severus 3 points ago +5 / -2

"Jews get kicked out of every industry"

If you got kicked out of one bar I might believe you when you claim the bouncer was irrationally prejudiced against you

If you get kicked out of +100 bars clearly the problem is your behavior

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buckfoomers -4 points ago +7 / -11

And yet people here will still rabidly defend it. It's funny.

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Populist_Leader 13 points ago +14 / -1

It’s the same as how people still defend communism. Both present an ideal to certain people, but in practice are very easily corruptible.

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NotAPuma 18 points ago +20 / -2

Except Capitalism can and will usually work out. Communism NEVER works out.

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Populist_Leader 6 points ago +6 / -0

When your government makes backdoor deals with the corporations to regulate the economy in a way that hurts the competition, you have reached the state of corrupted capitalism.

As economies and societies scale up, they become increasingly prone to centralization, manipulation, and corruption. Our rights are being stripped by a pact between government and corporations that have both become too powerful

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buckfoomers 2 points ago +9 / -7

It's actively not working out.