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Ownership of the means of production.

The history of the model T from ford.

Fully agree.

☹️ ya man… I know… I’m beating a dead horse.

Sometimes I just respond so anyone that does read it will see someone fighting against the idiocy.

I’ve always toyed with the idea of a wealth cap. 1 billion dollars is the max amount of money any one person or entity can make. Anything after that is either reinvested, split amoung the workers (not the board of directors) or payed a taxes to the government.

One thing is for sure. We don’t need billionaires.

Ownership of the means of production.

It’s not fucking hard.

Actually, I do. It has a definition, one that all of you seem eager to twist and reshape into whatever suits your narrative.

In reality, you’re the one who doesn’t understand it. You’re so far removed from the mechanics that you can’t even see what’s actually happening. Instead, you just blame “the system” and an amorphous blob of people you call “the rich.”

It’s the worst kind of idealism, screaming at windmills while pretending to have some enlightened grasp of “what’s really going on.”

You’re no different in rhetoric or philosophy from a MAGA supporter—just flipped to the opposite pole.

Sir or madam. You’re doing a gish gallop even Kent hovind would be proud of and I don’t have the energy or desire to fully respond to any of that. I’ve written enough dissertations in my life.

Capitalism doesn’t require need or desire government intervention to work or exist. I suggest you brush up on your economics or ask chatgpt to explain it to you.

This is such a black-and-white take it practically erases reality. Yes, America exploited the Third World-but pretending the exploited had zero agency is just historical revisionism. It’s like blaming the Atlantic slave trade solely on Europeans while ignoring the African slavers who sold their own people. Exploitation requires both a buyer and a seller. If you’re going to condemn capitalism, do it honestly-recognize that local elites, corrupt governments, and internal power structures played a role too. The world isn’t split into pure villains and innocent victims.

I will agree fully, however that to reach a level of success in capitalism someone at the bottom has to suffer. I’m not supporting the system I’m just saying that it is successful within it’s framework.

I’m sorry what? I didn’t say anything about “good capitalism” or any kind of warfare or committed atrocious or any kind of racial issues.

In fact I am denouncing capitalism in my comment.

It’s like you just picked a random line to quote then went off on some idealistic rant about literally nothing.

Jkf was assassinated, there’s micro plastics in our food, I took a painful shit last night = therefore capitalism is bad!

1. Strawman Fallacy Oh, wait, you’re only talking for a white minority, I see.

2. False Dilemma What good capitalism are you exactly talking about

3. Appeal to Emotion English children lost their fingers… died at 30-ish

4. Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc Capitalism and imperialism triggered WWI.

5. Guilt by Association US murdered millions… because they didn’t want to be capitalist.

6. Red Herring The entire comment diverts from discussing actual merits or failures of capitalism as an economic system by listing atrocities as if they are direct and exclusive outcomes of capitalism, avoiding systemic analysis.

7. Loaded Question When exactly was capitalism better…

Your entire comment is nothing more than idealistic mental masturbation, what a waste.

I mean it does. At least as far as it can. I live in America. And aside from the shit we’re going through right now and the myriad of issues that we have as a country and society our standard if living is very hight. Not the highest of course but very high never the less. That standard is made possible in large by capitalism.

I believe Rand called it reasonable self interest, not every billionaire is an oligarch, not every rich person wants to rent out a god dammed city for their wedding like some cartoonish villian.

Penn Jillette said that he believes most people are good and I believe that applies to the rich as well.

Corporate oligarchy can be argued as a natural out come if capitalism run rampant I agree. But to equate the two as the same… They’re just not.

This take “capitalism is an innovation only enabled by massive government intervention” misses the mark. It doesn’t define capitalism; it just assumes we all agree on some vague historical version of it.

Capitalism, at its core, is private ownership, voluntary exchange, and profit driven markets. Government intervention isn’t part of the definition it’s something that’s been layered on top as capitalism evolved. Yeah, modern capitalism what we see post 16th century definitely grew with state backing: contract enforcement, corporate law, banking systems, even colonial muscle. But to say capitalism only exists because of government intervention is just historically lazy.

What really happened is the state and capital developed hand in hand. One didn’t invent the other. They just learned to exploit each other really well.

My auto correct doesn’t care.

Clubbing… Ah. So not baby seals. Ok. Good.

I’ve been in one of these before it’s nice.

🤷 they may only get one chance to look at Emma Watsons ass in real life… They took it. Doesn’t make it right… I’m just saying.

In that case let’s stop calling it ai, because it isn’t and use it’s correct abbreviation: llm.

It’s still called capitalism, but in reality it’s drifted way off course. What we’ve got now looks more like a corporate oligarchy. The free market only applies to small players, big banks and mega-corps get bailouts, write policy through lobbyists, and face no real consequences for failure. It’s capitalism in name, but the rules are rigged. Real capitalism doesn’t have a reset button for the rich and a bootstraps lecture for everyone else.

In q1 or 2025 reddit racked in about 390 million dollars.

Spez is worth about 50 million in liquidity and 191 million is stocks.

A 131 foot yacht is being sold for around 15 million.

He can get whatever yacht he wants.

Reddit made major, massive profits when it went public.

We don’t have to like it, we don’t have to like spez… But he made fuck tones of money.

Maybe so but he made enough money for that second yacht.

Really? So he’s going to get rid of all the bots?