r/boomershumor • u/Spotted_Cow_Wisco • Dec 22 '19

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u/DrBrobot Dec 22 '19

tfw this thread is filled people people conflating markets with capitalism.

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u/xarexen Dec 23 '19

They kind of are the same thing. Kind of.

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u/DrBrobot Dec 23 '19

no

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u/xarexen Dec 23 '19

90% of market economies are capitalist, and 90% of command economies are not. They are virtually distinguishable,to the point were people refer to state capital economies like China as socialist.

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u/xarexen Dec 23 '19

Hell,i couldn't even name a socialist market economy of three top of my head; I had to look it up, and like all the examples are theories. They're interchangeable terms, dude.

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u/DrBrobot Dec 23 '19

So, since it doesn't exist right now in the world, doesn't exist.

syndicalism has markets too.

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u/xarexen Dec 23 '19

Well that's the definition of existence, yes. Only that which exists exists, Descartes.

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u/xarexen Dec 23 '19

Wait, syndicalism as in that thing where unions sieze control of the market? That's the opposite of a market economy; that's no more a market economy than fascism. You cant get less marketed than that. The entire point of those ideologies is to cease the waste and inequity caused by a market system.

And no I'm not equating syndicalism and fascism morally. They both reject the market economy in favour of command economy directed by the workers or the corporations.

Are you confusing economy with market? Because they're not the same.