• HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    This is however, a practice that results from the government being effectively corporate controlled. Which is the end result of allowing your free markets to run wild and allowing corporations to acquire that much power, money, and influence.

    A pure capitalist system actively selects for this kind of bullshit. The most ruthless and unethical companies end up winning in the end. And those same companies are buying our politicians.

    People blame capitalism when the system clearly favours the rich over the poor to such a dystopian extent that a man is allowed to be held hostage by a corporation

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        6 months ago

        centrally-planned systems are an aspect of capitalism

        Isn’t that the end goal of capitalism? Winning is having control of all the capital right? How can you divorce the implied, if not explicit, end goal of a system from the system itself?

        pile of decaying bones is an aspect of a family pet.

        How is this not an aspect? It’s the inevitable end of any living thing, much like capitalism and the heartless exploitation of literally everything