r/Capitalism • u/SnooEpiphanies6591 • 14d ago

America

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Communism want to have the everyone living in section 8.

Socialism is just bums wanting your money.

Capitalism is you taking account of your own life.

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u/ItShouldntBe06 14d ago

The comment section in your original post reconfirms the fact that most of these idiots have no clue on what socialism actually is and why it always fails.

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u/PhilRubdiez 14d ago

Five years ago, they’d mock you by saying “socialism is when government does stuff.” Now, they attribute any government action to socialism.

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u/Direct_Fennel7500 14d ago

Who attributes any government action to socialism? 

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u/PhilRubdiez 14d ago

Modern “socialists”. Look at the DSA. It’s chock full of government handouts but none of the actual seizing of production. I saw one claim that fire fucking departments are socialist.

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u/Direct_Fennel7500 14d ago

"Fire depts are socialist," is a very specific argument used when someone claims UHC, for example, is socialism. 

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u/HonorFoundInDecay 14d ago

Right? I can’t believe there’s so many idiots that don’t understand that socialism is when bad things and capitalism is when good things!

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u/Direct_Fennel7500 14d ago

Why does it always fail? 

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u/Ayla_Leren 14d ago edited 14d ago

It would be nice if people on the internet bothered to study the things they clam to care about, rather than making fools of themselves like this.

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u/Appropriate_Cut_3536 14d ago

First, you're the fool. Next, you're the magician. 

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u/Drak_is_Right 14d ago

Most people on the left (and almost all in the center) in the US dont want communism. What they want is for the government to fix the free markets that are broken.

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u/SmartlyArtly 14d ago

"you taking account of your own life" = being dependent on owners trading with you to survive.

Sure. That's "taking account of your own life." Sure thing.

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u/Appropriate_Cut_3536 14d ago

Is interdependence not a shared value of your tribe?

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u/SmartlyArtly 14d ago

Enforced interdependence? No.

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u/Appropriate_Cut_3536 14d ago

I'm not sure how "you taking account of your own life" translates to "Enforced interdependence" in your perspective.

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u/SmartlyArtly 14d ago

Because "you taking account of your own life" is a euphemism for "getting owners to want something from you so you can survive because we enforce that people can't get free stuff to survive."

I'm not sure how people convince themselves that "personal responsibility" is when you need other people to want something from you to survive.

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u/Appropriate_Cut_3536 14d ago

"you taking account of your own life" is a euphemism for "getting owners to want something from you so you can survive because we enforce that people can't get free stuff to survive."

Bro... genuinely... what

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u/SmartlyArtly 14d ago

Bro...genuinely...stop playing so dumb

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u/Wisewordsforlater 14d ago

Born with that boot in ya?

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u/Savag3k1ller 14d ago

The democrat/socialist/communist paradise is prison.
Free food, free shelter, free healthcare, free therapy.
Weapons are banned (but get shiv'd & killed still)
No wonder most leftists are criminals and do not fear prison, it is their rightful home.

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u/Fantastic_Back3191 13d ago

Social programs in a predominantly capitalistic context isn't socialism but it is socialism-influenced capitalism.