• JustMy2c@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Nope, not true. Capitalism in its base is just the fact you are free to exchange with others.

    Businesses should not be allowed human rights. And especially not to influence politics (even if through third and such parties like lobbyists and superpacs)

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      10 months ago

      That’s not what capitalism is. People have been exchanging things long before the 1600s. Capitalism is about allowing private interests to own a state’s productive capacity for the purposes of profit.

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            10 months ago

            The word government isn’t even in that entire article. Maybe quote a specific part instead of idiotically linking a main Wikipedia page…?

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              10 months ago

              Okay, allow me to copy/paste the relevant section, the first sentence.

              Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

              Meaning individuals (aka private interests) own and control the means of production with the goal of generating profit, rather than they be publicly controlled, which is to say controlled by the government.

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      10 months ago

      You’re wrong, and you don’t know you’re wrong.

      If you care at all that you might be wrong, you would read David Graeber’s “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” and learn more about this.

      But you won’t, because this is the Internet.

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        10 months ago

        My take away from that book is that we should fight the oligarchy to demand the re establishment of a Jubilee.