алсааас [she/they] @ alsaaas @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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you are correct, this thread is mostly me just getting that shitpost out of my system

ah yes, indeed

the one of (neo)liberalism. An economic state which is accepted and perpetuated by virtually all sides of the culture war

not rly, it's capitalism working as intended

good one

the chicago school is just a natural development of capitalism. In competition instead of cooperation, the winner absorbs the looser and cetralizes production more and more into oligopolies. Even if you turned back the time before the era of "crony/coorperate capitalism" it would take but a bit of time to get back to the state we are in right now...

yeah.. the cognitive dissonance hurts

First of all, I don't know which country you are talking about which put these policies in place. And it does not matter as it does not alleviate the exploitation inherent in capitalism, it only puts a nice coat of paint over it...

well put, but the class distinction is still the main contradiction of capitalism

"NCD"?

and I'm just supposed to give a fuck?

you have to do zero real work to get profits that way. The profits you are getting are just a share of the wealth the workers of the company produce. There is no such thing as passive income, the money is always taken from working people. The really rich people take 0 risk. The instant they start making serious losses banks and goverments step in and give them taxpayers money.

Also: to get relevant income that way you already need to have a lot of money, which you either get by inheritance or exploiting others. Either way you had to do zero real work yourself. (and no, just shoving capital around is not real work)

"If the Germans want total war, that's what they will get"

sorry to disillusion you but your system is capitalism with a nice coat of paint over it. It's still based on exploitation, imperialism, neo-colonialism and oil/fossil fuel money

Imma bring up an example to maybe explain it easier. North Korea calls itself the "Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea". In their official understanding/rhetoric they have a democracy in which the administration acts in the interest of the people instead of a few bureaucratic elites. In reality it's the other way around. Now, if someone said "Look at what democracy does to a country!!11!", would you not object?

sir, this is a Wendies meme. In the end it boils down to the capitalist goverments bayling out those who don't need it (billionaires and millionaires) and giving credit for virtually nothing. Ofc it's a simplification since this is a meme, not a chart for econ class

Socialism is defined as the working people either directly owning or democratically controlling the economy. I don't see how that is the case in any "socialist" country at the moment (speaking of the nordic ones, Portugal, China etc)

that's billions of tax payers money with the tax burden being disproportionately heavy for the 90% while the 10% pay less and less taxes the richer they are

that's not a left/right divide. it's a right/further right divide. And even staunch conservatives follow (neo)liberal economics.

This is a flow chart from a leftists/socialist perspective

there is the petite bourgeoisie (am referring to medium, not small buisnesses) who work and own. There is managers who work for a living but still have some power and advantages of the owning class

forgot the /s