lolbertarians are some of the dumbest people on earth.
okay, let’s say it is “crony capitalism run by the state” (he doesn’t mean state capitalism, he doesn’t know what that means)
what else can capitalism become, especially without extremely strict regulation and wealth/income caps- all things these people are against? and to the extent that the state has its hand in the economy, is it not ONLY to benefit corporations? they’re not regulating these companies or anything to any meaningful degree. so if the government is bad because they only serve big business, even in their own completely nonsensical analysis, doesnt that still make capitalism the problem?
Capitalism is good when I, a mediocre white person, can make enough money to flip real estate on the side and make at least $350k per year and pay little to no capital gains tax and then buy a used snowmobile dealership
Capitalism is crony capitalism when there’s a big financial and real estate sector run by billionaires who make it hard for me, a mediocre white person, to flip real estate on the side and also I have to pay capital gains tax meaning I am precarious in my position as a snowmobile dealership owner
What if we try a capitalism where we just give everyone $350k per year and we have no snowmobile dealerships or real estate
in this caption we are meant to agree with the guy who in the show tries to enslave the entire planet
It’s a story as old as written history.
look! I made a meme where an interplanetary fascist mass murderer says the thing I believe to be true!
real capitalism has never been tried
Turns out libs are projecting when they say “Oh, communists just say that the USSR/China/etc. ‘weren’t real communism.’”
Real capitalism has never been tried outside of the Republic of Venice
economically illiterate
CHUDs “fucking love economics” the same way they accuse the left of “fucking loving science”.
Everyone’s an anti-intellectual until it’s time to disregard economics.
Liberals love economics too. Except instead of “it’s simple really, let me explain to you the supply-demand curve” the liberals will say “let me explain why this program for Pell Grant recipients benefits you metaphysically although not actually, and here’s why you should love it”
Imagine you have two cows:
If only good, selfless people become our overlords via accumulating all capital, it will all work out completely and utterly fine. What? What do you mean people die and are replaced by their failchildren?
Even the very most charitable way to think about it breaks down after one generation. You buffoons. You idiots.
So the solution to the failings of capitalism is to create immortal billionaire god kings. Got it
So the solution to the failings of capitalism is to create immortal billionaire god kings. Got it
wait, what are you doing?
“So much good undone… for what reason?”
“No you see you need to trust porky more. Your distrust in porky hypnotizing him into being greedy. Subsidize our gov-I mean, our betters and they will act against their interests and be less greedy.”
You can have laissez-faire free market capitalism for about 30 minutes before the big capitalists establish a state.
From Wikipedia: “The initial use of the term “capitalism” in its modern sense is attributed to Louis Blanc in 1850 … and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in 1861”. Two socialists, not describing an ideal, but rather describing reality (or, in other words, capitalism just is crony state capitlism).
Liberals who think like this imply they do not comprehend the centrality of contract, property, corporate, copyright and patent laws to a capitalist society or that these concepts are so hopelessly abstract in their head that it might as well have the same relevance as mentioning bowling or botany
Just wtf do they think a state is? These people have no idea what capitalism is
they think “the state” is just someone standing next to a money printer with a list of DEI based welfare programs to send bags of cash to (when they aren’t making oppressive age of consent laws)
if you remove all the onerous regulations around child slavery, landlordism, privately owned security services, human trafficking, heavy arms manufacturing, human experimentation, organ harvest, and sexual exploitation… crony corporatism will cease to exist and the bright, radiant future of market fundamentalism will emerge.
They’re just too philosophically illiterate to understand how things develop and change over time.
What no object permanence does to a mf
Capitalism? Like the drug dealer?
Seems like our modern-day problems are never problems with capitalism itself, but problems in the past were problems with socialism.
Lolberts would make great Sorkinites and would have loved The West Wing
“The system can’t fail! Only be failed! Liberal democracy good and free market good! Why? Because middle school said so! Anyone who dares question it is either a rube who is too stupid to understand my genius, or a loser jealous that the all-knowing system ranked them low!”
Yes, they are that condescending. They unironically think they’re omniscient and anyone who disagrees with them is too stupid to understand their genius.
He’s right that most people don’t hate capitalism (even though they should).
They hate the effects that capitalism has on their lives and have no coherent model to explain it.
