• BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    That’s observablt false. Capitalism has lead to a massive improvement in living conditions for countries that have implemented it

    Yes it also has downsides, but pretending it doesn’t do anything good is rediculous.

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      44 minutes ago

      You sound like Marx just before he recommends transitioning to socialism as the next logical stage of human development.

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      9 hours ago

      Your observation is only true where the working class controls the capital. Your point would be well taken if we all had significant shares providing passive income. Buy not even the wealthiest of the working class controls a share of capital proportionate to their productive output.

      The worst injustices injustices in history have been perpetrated by oligarchs of some shape or another. We are in the middle of such an era now.

      And the word is “ridiculous”.