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[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Capitalism's natural and unavoidable end stage.

[-] Txmyx@feddit.org 5 points 2 weeks ago

I like to blame capitalism for everything, too, but this has nothing to do with capitalism. Just the US Democracy not being a Democracy

[-] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

Ah yes the world richest man and a billionaire president have no financial motives for overthrowing the US gov. Definitely not the fault of the greedy capitalist system

[-] Txmyx@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yes, but a functioning democratic system does not allow that.

Any power tripping person could overthrow a country for different reasons (like Hitler for example)

[-] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

Capitalism encourages the break down of the democratic system.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

Where communism never had any democracy to start with.

[-] save_the_humans@leminal.space 10 points 2 weeks ago

Thats because the US toppled every Democratic attempt at communism and socialism with staged coups and assassinations.

[-] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

And why’s that folks? That’s right! The profit motive!

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, the US is clearly to blame for the Stasi.

[-] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

No, just capitalism is correct. Unbridled or not, the profit incentive and private ownership over the means of production, both of which are intrinsic to a capitalist economic structure, still exist and contribute to systemic oppression.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

By world richest man you mean Putin or Bin Salman?

[-] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Pick one it’ll probably be correct anyway

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 10 points 2 weeks ago

The richest people being the oligarchs has nothing to do with capitalism?

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Capitalism worsens the principal agent problem of representative democracy because it's trivial to bribe representatives, especially now.

this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2025
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