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Capitalism can be a complex and weighty subject. But that doesn't mean we can't approach it with a joke or two. For that, let's take a look at the content of a Facebook page called 'Memes For A Better Tomorrow.'

From the endless pursuit of profit to the ever-growing cycle of consumption, the page invites its 51,000 followers to look at serious, nuanced topics with a dash of levity, so we thought it would be interesting to join them and do the same.

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Under capitalism, private individuals or businesses own capital goods. At the same time, business owners (capitalists) employ workers (labor) who only receive wages; labor does not own the means of production but only uses them on behalf of the owners of the capital.

The production of goods and services is based on supply and demand in the general market—known as a market economy—rather than through central planning—known as a planned economy or command economy.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Musk and Twitter: billions of idiots bought by an idiot billionaire. Stay away from that toxic "social" network.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Should be a lot higher. The saddest thing is that many people in the US who cannot afford proper healthcare actually still support the system because at least thee are some people worse off than they are. They honestly feel happier simply knowing that they're not at the bottom of the pile.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tgoody probably has rich parents and lives in a little mansion in their yard, being very proud that he finished the college they paid for and that he got a top tier job at their company.

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The purest form of capitalism is free market or laissez-faire capitalism. There, private individuals are unrestrained. They determine where to invest, what to produce or sell, and at which prices to exchange goods and services. The laissez-faire marketplace operates without checks or controls.

In reality, most countries practice a mixed capitalist system that includes some degree of government regulation of business and ownership of select industries.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Billionaires shouldn't exist, because it means at some point you've screwed someone over, either by not paying them enough or by not paying a fair share of taxes

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They say it like those American suburbs with identical houses sprawling for kilometers are somehow less depressing

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This would make more sense if the rich actually paid their fair share of taxes

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Industrial capitalism usually benefited bigger parts of society rather than just the aristocratic class. Wages increased, helped greatly by the formation of unions. The standard of living also rose with the glut of affordable products being mass-produced. All of this led to the formation of a middle class and began to lift more and more people from the lower classes to swell its ranks.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well if I’m being linguistically picky, land bastard is also gendered. Land@rsehole perhaps?

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The expansion of the financial sector accompanied the rise of industrial capitalism. Banks had previously served as warehouses for valuables, clearinghouses for long-distance trade, or lenders to nobles and governments. But eventually, they came to serve the needs of everyday commerce and the intermediation of credit for large, long-term investment projects. By the 20th century, as stock exchanges became increasingly public and investment vehicles opened up to more individuals, some economists named a variation on the system: financial capitalism.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

“The greatness of a nation can be judged by how it treats its weakest members".

Noname
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Too true! My kid had an asthma attack, and the American hospital insisted my kid needed to be admitted because steroids were given. 3 days and $25k later ( they gave too much albuterol which made my kid's heart go into afib, so we needed a pediatric cardiologists not on on insurance, but we had no choice) my kid is alive but..... In France, 2 years later, same kid, asthma emergency, the French ER gave my kid steroids, an hour with albuterol treatment, was sent home with the advice that if the problem persisted, return to the ER. Cost €17. My child is still alive and hasn't required any more er treatment for asthma.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Things Jesus never said:. Help the poor ... Unless you think they don't deserve it. Then it's ok to persecute them and watch them suffer for years until they die.

Noname
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know you're being facetious, but, work on the delivery. The New Testament sections of the Bible make a lotta claims about what "Jesus said", but was written centuries after his death by people who weren't alive when he supposedly made these statements. For all we know, Jesus might have said "blessed is mint as it will inherit the world", and as a gardener who's been trying to rid my yard of the scourge of mint, I think Jesus might have been giving advice to gardeners. Let the mint live as it is.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Honestly I think what keeps us thinking this really has to do with "sense" of fairness. To ever make the change will mean and entire generation (or 2 or 3) of humanity, will have to collectively decide that even though they had to struggle and work and fight to get what they have....the next generation deserves to get it for free. It's not that different than the 30 year employee who makes $20/hr, seeing an 18yo kid get hired for $22/hr, and says "I want the same, that's not fair". I'm not saying we shouldn't strive to make that change, to accept that "better for our children" means "my neighbor's children should have better than I had too". But I think this is the mental hangup we struggle to pass.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not sure that's a "natural" line of thinking. Reading this post reminded me of being taught exactly those ideas in school (I'm a boomer). Working as a housing paralegal for legal aid the past 5 years has opened my eyes to how much we were constantly bombarded with propaganda and straight up lies in school. I'm ashamed of how many years it took for me to really examine my thoughts on a lot of subjects, only to realize so many thoughts that my brain produces are a direct result of the propaganda and lies taught to me by the school system, television and the church. Americans think we're free- we're just well controlled by- wait for it- propaganda and lies. The internet granting personal access to people from all walks of life, in every country, is changing that - when people are willing to learn. It's really hard to accept that you've been lied to by practically everything and everyone around you for your entire life. I think that's a big part of why so many boomers are close minded.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My county closed the only homeless shelter with the motivation that if homeless people had nowhere to go they'd go away and not be homeless anymore. I wish I had saved the article so that I could post it on social media before the next election.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's been interesting to see in this fentanyl crisis just how many of the elites own children are dying from buying 👻 chat drugs. Interesting indeed. Sadly, capitalism placed most of the people shooting up on the streets. Most started with minor injuries but through over prescribing of opiates created drug addicts. Capitalism could eff up a wet dream.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

See also: the costs of having needle exchanges and safe injection sites, vs. the cost of people ODing, or getting diseases and dying, or getting diseases that are very expensive to live with for the rest of their lives.

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Alex S
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's the same reasoning Americans use to justify not having universal healthcare. The US spend MORE per capita propping up its terrible system than any country with socialised medicine does, yet people still can't get past the fact that their tax dollars will be used to pay for someone else's treatment even though the exact same thing happens using private insurance, it's just your after tax dollars.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Exactly, the same people who b***h about paying for universal healthcare are also really gungho about locking everyone up for minor offenses which costs a fortune, but heaven forbid we pay to put a roof over someone's head if "they haven't earned it"!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It does have to be said that the poor people who are being abandoned to die like this (to put it mildly) most certainly have not earned death of exposure. There's no defending that kinda thinking, really.

Tyler
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

also billionaires who did nothing but inherited all that money from their parents? no problem

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The majority of us are x number of paychecks or benefit payments from being out on the streets living the lives that so many of us look down on. Even if you can't or don't want to give money to homeless people it costs nothing to say hello or just acknowledge their existence.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I spent a year volunteering at a Habitat For Humanity branch, and during orientation, my supervisor literally told us that they couldn't put details like backsplash in the houses they build because people might think it was 'too nice.'

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'd like to know what they mean by give them a place to live. A house, a bunk in a hostel, a tent in a park? What level of support, for how long? Does it address the other elephant in the room - that there is a lot of mental illness in the homeless population. So any housing solution needs to bear that in mind too. Not saying they shouldn't do it, but it all still needs funding that has to come from somewhere.

Frank Miller
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is what happens when you take care of them... https://youtu.be/pMALoEd5G60

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Honestly a lot of people have tried to help some homeless. There was a documentary on PBS about it. Set in New York. They tried to help them, for them housing, a job or on disability. I remember this one lady was schizophrenic and she stayed at the house for like two months but after that went back to the streets. They came to check on the every couple of weeks. With some nothing is going to change their homelessness. But yes shelter and food. Help them. But also watch for the scammers begging for money. Rich off people willing to help.

CatWoman1014
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No one asked to be born. At the least we’re entitled to food, water, and shelter.

Clay S.
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So, what did Trump do to deserve the "small "loan"" from his father?

Jodi Von Seggern
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Uhmerikka in a nutshell. Always preferring cutting off nose to spite face.

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Every time I see a news video showing people looting stores, I have the same few thoughts. Very few of the people stealing food are overly thin. Most of the people stealing food are overweight or downright FAT. Those stealing TV sets, Game Boy and DVD players are not homeless.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That’s because healthy food is MUCH more expensive! It’s one of the main driving factors of the obesity epidemic

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By incentivizing entrepreneurs to reallocate away resources from unprofitable channels and into areas where consumers value them more, capitalism has proven a highly effective vehicle for economic growth.

More and better goods became cheaply accessible to wide populations again, raising standards of living in previously unthinkable ways. As a result, many political theorists and economists argue that capitalism is the most efficient and productive system of exchange.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sisyphus wasn't compensated though? We are compensated for our time in work with money (or other). It's the ratio of work to money that is the issue for most; especially when you take into account the cost of living

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But a downside of capitalism is its ability to corrupt. Crony capitalism (sometimes called cronyism) refers to a capitalist society that is based on the close relationships between business people and the state. Instead of success being determined by a free market and the rule of law, it can depend on favoritism that is shown by the government in the form of tax breaks, grants, and other incentives.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And forcing workers to come into an office for a job they can easily get done remotely is about the office space rental market.

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In practice, this is the dominant form of capitalism worldwide, due to the powerful incentives both faced by governments to extract resources by taxing, regulating, and fostering rent-seeking activity, and capitalist businesses trying to increase profits by obtaining subsidies, limiting competition, and erecting barriers to entry. In effect, these forces represent a kind of supply and demand for government intervention in the economy, which arises from the design of the system.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you never stop hustling, accept multiple jobs, go above and beyond and dedicate all your waking hours to work, then, one day, you boss might go to space!

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Critics argue that capitalism leads to a significant loss of political, democratic and economic power for the majority of the population because it creates large concentrations of money and property in the hands of a relatively small minority (the elite or the power elite), leading, according to them, to very large and increasing wealth and income inequalities between the two groups.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

US labour market makes me wonder if slavery ended. Nowhere else. Minimum wages, internships etc.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lets take a break from this depressing talk about capitalism, and play mariokart instead!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Reminds me of that comic where a capitalist, a worker and an immigrant are sitting at the table. Capitalist has 9 cookies, worker has one, immigrant has zero. The capitalist leans to the worker and whispers: "Watch out, that immigrant wants to steal your cookie!"

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And while 57% of the American public continues to view capitalism favorably, that is 8 percentage points lower than in 2019 (65%), a 2022 national survey by the Pew Research Center revealed.

However, its main "competitor" isn't doing too well either. Just 36% of U.S. adults say they find socialism to be somewhat (30%) or very (6%) positive, down from 42% who viewed it positively in May 2019. (Six in ten today say they view socialism negatively, including one-third who view it very negatively.)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The egg memes are in and out, it’s getting back to the normal inflation prices

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I tip cash so that nothing needs to be reported and you actually receive 100% of your tip and this is how you choose to thank me.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Haha, I have the same theory. Musk bought Twitter just to block that account that keeps tracking his private jet.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This should be higher, we all live in this vicious circle of constant remorse that we should be constantly productive and i f we like doing something we should do it better and for profit... It is so hard sometimes to relax without feeling guilty all the time

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mom says that no one who saw "Hair" in the theater gets to complain about millenials.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Isn't it sad that any excitement for a breakthrough new technology is immediately dampened by realization that corporations will immediately seize it and turn it into some dystopian, profit-generating BS?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Especially for short term temporary positions!! "To whom it may concern, I really want this 3 month job during the summer because I don't get a stipend while not enrolled in classes. I strongly believe I can do simple repetitive tasks, see my graduate cv for pertinent examples" :p

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is 'the largest egg producer' a really big chicken? No? Then it's not a producer but a dealer.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Guarantee every one of these f*****s will be starving in the breadlines crying about why they couldn't be the Proletariat in their precious Red utopias.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Rate hikes be like: oh no! Too many people are moving up the wealth ladder! We can’t have that, our system wasn’t designed for it! Hike the rates until they’re all miserable again and the ultra wealthy can hoard more wealth because they can afford the higher cost. There we go, aww sweet imbalance

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Communism works IF the group is small enough for everyone to know each other personally. People are often too uncomfortable to cheat people they know, as well as being overseen by their neighbors directly.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a European, I find it missing: "No money? We offer you to live a life of debt by taking financial credits for your studies and your health"

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yet, Google laid off 12000 employees -6% of the workforce- with an email on 20th Jan 2023, including long-timers, specialists, people whose company was bought off by Google and the purchase agreements included a permanent position.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People have such a convoluted understanding of unions. My partner of 10 years did until I explained that my father, a laborer, wouldn't have been able to keep his job after multiple work induced surgeries on his injuries because a non union would've given him unpaid time off or fired him. Unions are to protect the little guy from systemic corporate abuse and called lazy? Why because they need breaks and be able to leave after 8 hours of work. Go f yourselves.

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