Not capitalism, bud.
Don't confuse consumerism and corporatism for capitalism.
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Ian Young
Henry Clark
Consumerism and corporatism is the endgame of capitalism. Your dream of each small town having its own general store, its own supermarket, its own locally grown produce, its own pharmacy, etc, etc, is just that - a dream. Economies of scale dictate that these small stores will always be supplanted by a walmart, due to walmart being able to acquire and sell goods much cheaper. Most consumers will always make the rational choice and save money at walmart rather than supporting their locally owned businesses. The only way you can prevent that is through extensive governmental controls over the economy and corporations, but then what's the differentiates such a capitalism from socialism?
Alexander Cox
Hell yeah.
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John Green
not the end game, only an unfortunate stop. ultimately the goal of capitalism is the complete encapsulation and maximization of all value. human rights will not be begrudgingly accepted by the machine but instead be stripped completely in pursuit of a higher meaning (value). marxism is not a solution to this as it will just end up doing the same thing or being absorbed or destroyed by the unstoppable force of capital. remember that marx said that the fall of late-stage capitalism would happen in the western world in the early 1900s. he made a very good assessment but a poor solution as he was unaware of the gravity of the situation.
anyways, this post is exactly about not doing what I am doing right now so I'll quit typing
Justin Turner
Meant to use this image.
Austin Cox
this thread is
I also forgot to add that so-called communists in the modern world are some of the greatest proselytizers in our society of the destruction of the few things left restraining capital from becoming the unstoppable destructive force it will ultimately become. national socialists are much better in that they want to restore the values which would prevent the ultimate destruction of capital but they ultimately miss the forest for the trees.
Cameron Mitchell
Why the fuck would anyone want to support somebody's else business in the first place?
Socialists are just whining losers who think that capitalism is about opening a shitty local store and making guaranteed profit on it.
Kevin Reyes
You can still find it, but you have to find not yet popular places, websites. As soon as it becomes popular, it becomes shit. The quality of the posts goes downhill.
Like a forum I used to follow, had a section to give tips on music(often from youtubers) and good stuff was shared, then more and more people started posting and it became popular. It went from always finding something great to absolute garbage.
I think places would have to be reduces to limited amount of people who can join. Maybe where you would pick out the better once and others would not be able to join. Even be IQ based and also men only.
That's what really changed in the early 2000 the amount of females and also stupid men that just jumped on the next popular thing.
Aaron Parker
Never mind, I forgot that this is a marginal place for people with mental issues who rationalize their own failures dreaming about fictional worlds where they would supposedly succeed.
I'm not going to take away the only joy in their miserable life.
David Williams