• Tiger666@lemmy.ca
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    21 hours ago

    Capitalists say the free market is king then they go and make laws to stifle and restrict it so they can make monopolies and gouge everyone out of their hard-earned income.

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      7 hours ago

      Capitalism is an egotistic not an idealistic movement. Capitalists don’t become capitalists because they think it benefits everyone, but because they think it benefits them. That’s why someone like Elon Musk is only against government subsidies if he’s not the recipient.

    • Goldholz @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      11 hours ago

      Buy everything up so your choice doesnt really latter because the money ends up in theirs either way. And put hurdles in the way so no one could try to get any funny ideas and make their own thing

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      20 hours ago

      They are not Capitalists. In fact capitalism is a great idea, it just we don’t have it.

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        19 hours ago

        Other way around. They’re capitalists but don’t support the free market. So they want the factory to be privately owned and run for profit, but they still want the government to interfere with patent-infringing sales.

        And I’d argue that capitalism is an inherently bad idea, even in theory. Nobody deserves free rent just for owning something, like land or natural resources. Property manager is a job, landlord is not.

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          18 hours ago

          So they want the factory to be privately owned and run for profit, but they still want the government to interfere

          We should take a step back and recognize that they want the government to interfere by recognizing and enforcing their ownership of the factory in the first place.

      • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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        19 hours ago

        Properly regulated capitalism isn’t strictly horrible. The biggest issue we have is that first bit, unfortunately.

        -Me, a dirty socialist