I was once a strong supporter of capitalism but now I just don't know

I was once a strong supporter of capitalism but now I just don't know.

cause your lazy and too rich for welfare

Capitalism is in pretty bad shape right now. There's really no argument in favour for it anymore other than "well at least its not the USSR"

What changed your mind?

Real wages haven't risen on 25 years or more. 100% of economic growth is being funded via capital gains and credit. Something is definitely wrong now. The music will have to stop at some point.

The bankers cock finally hit his molars, from the ass end of course

LOL you mean MINIMUM WAGE.
Capitalism isn't about finding the best job. It's about re investing into the economy for growth and personal gain

First of all, you don't know what capitalism is. Second, capitalism doesn't exist.

ok george orwell

Cuck detected

What is capitalism?

The unemployment rate is literally at one of it's lowest points in history. The cartoon is crushed by two minutes of googling.

The doesn't even account for the fact that equally distributed wealth doesn't necessarily mean *more* it usually just makes everyone poor.

Consider the microwave, even poor families have them in capitalist countries. But this device would blow Andrew Carnegie's mind.

Yea yea. If you're a lazy faggot who's constantly feeling sorry for themselfe because other people have more, capitalism looks like it sucks. But fucking look at the other systems. It's not even a fucking contest. Astonishing wealth beyond the wildest dreams of people even 200 years ago. I mean honestly. Explain a cruis ship to George Washington, and be like "it takes me 2-3 years of saving to afford a trip like this" and he'll be like "you mean plebs can do this multiple times!?"

Capitalism isn't perfect, but its the most free system currently.
If you think a Socialist Economy is better I implore you to look at Venezuela
If you think Command Economy/Communism is better look at Cuba, Soviet Union, and North Korea.

an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

This is true

+1 internets for a factual answer on Sup Forums

Dankjewel

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move somewhere else and enjoy your life then retard

This

Capitalism is fine when it is kept in check and there is a stable democratic socialist platform to work alongside it that sees certain things like feeding and clothing the poor and healthcare for all as human rights. You pay for that by taxing the insanely wealthy at a high percentage after a certain threshold of wealth is achieved.

It's the only reasonable and workable system. The incentives of capitalism still exist but you just don't get to build pic related for yourself on a whim quite as easily once you start siphoning billions out of society because your wealth is so unchecked that it replaces itself faster than it can be spent.

Capitalism unchecked leaves you with sixty human beings owning HALF the resources of the entire planet. The argument about "hard work and grind" being responsible for this is objectively absurd.

What do you think will happen when the private debt bubbles burst? Will capitalism reorganize again or collapse and die

please refer to pic related

this is economic liberalism, wikipedia.

Your a soft timer always trying to nickel and dime people.

No it's pretty much the definition.

>capitalism
>socialist

Pick one

The problem is the ruling class have gotten so powerful that they can just shit down production and move to wherever if their taxes get raised too much. They've been pretty clear that this is going to happen if social democracy/socialism/new deal ever's going to be implemented again

Cuck thread is down a little further

communism unchecked also leaves you with 60 people controlling all the countries resources.

Doesn't know what democratic socialism is.

Easy coarse of action, be an AnCom.

We have had states for literally thousands of years, none lasting more than a millennium. The longest lasting one is an irrelevant shithole in Italy. States inherently don't work.

for me it's the opposite. I believe what's bad is not capitalism per se. Capitalism is nothing more than the principle of exchanging goods and services againts money, which is very intuitive and logical.
The evil is the banking and stock market system.

Knowing that the concept of economic liberalism was developed before the concept of capitalism. What is the difference between economic liberalism and capitalism?

>doesn't know what capitalism is.

Lucky I didn't suggest communism then isn't it.

People get hung up on the "socialism" word in DS but it is NOT a communist socialist system by any stretch.

Democratic socialism basically takes certain things off the profit making ladder (healthcare for example) whilst leaving the rest of capitalist society intact with tighter constrains on the uber wealthy. It does NOT mean that the government owns the state.

Congratulations on thinking for yourself. True capitalism and true democracy are mutually exclusive. It is only a bridge between feudalism and democracy and cannot be sustained indefinitely. What we have now is not democracy but oligarchy and power will only continue to concentrate in the hands of those who already have it. This is not sustainable.

doesn't know what communism is

is right you can't have both, and still call it by one of those names. You'd have a Mixed Economy, if you had a combination of two or more economic systems.

You made a fool of yourself by claiming that democratic socialism doesn't include a capitalistic element to society as the entire backbone of the system. Damage control detected.

Capitalism needs brakes. Otherwise it would have everyone working 12 hour days, 7 days a week.
Right now, Capitalism wants foreign workers, using illegal immigrants and H-1B imports. They drive down wages, because they are able/willing to work more cheaply than you average American.

An illegal truck driver may make a few thousand dollars a month, where Americans used to get more than twice that amount.

An H-1B worker may make 70% what an American he is replacing made.

In the short term these policies help the bottom line, so businesses can show more prfit. Farther down the road, there will be nobody left who can buy the products and services these companies provide.

But, if you go against those who want to allow unchecked immigration, then the powers that be call you a racist or xenophobe.

No. Universal healthcare is a socialist program, no?

So do you believe that countries with universal healthcare don't have capitalistic societies?

The rich are getting richer...

And by rich I mean the 60 people who own as much as the poorest half of the global population combined.

Your an idiot. No the median wage you dumbass. On average everyone is making wages in the 90's.

Rich people make thier money from capital investment not income. That's why the wealthy bitching about high income taxes is a red herring. Capital gains taxes are about what a middle class household pays.

This. I think its time for people to take the left-libertarian red pill

>state seizes means of production
>politicians in charge of something somehow means it's "no longer by profit"

That's now how government works. Leaders need the profits of taxation to pay their key backers. Just because it's taxed at gunpoint instead of voluntarily exchanged doesn't mean it's not profit. Just makes it immoral theft.

Venture Capitalism vs Vulture Capitalism.

> i think ur problem is with the later OP.

Socialism is a Jewish concept.

>democratic socialism
Sucks. National socialism is the only socialism that can work.

The rich, cockroaches and Twinkies all will survive Armageddon. They always do.

Democratic socialism
>state controls some means of production
>somehow still captalism

lol wut?

fuck you. not everyone is entitled to money and success. earn it you bitch.

Wrong, it's a Prussian concept. Marx appropriated it for his shit-tier kike ideology and the brand's been tainted ever since.

While this is true, the root cause is anti-worker politics, not the immigrant workers themselves. Importation of workers+weakening of unions are both conscious policies to drive down the wages

Capitalism is the worst economic system ever devised... other than every other economic system.

But the poor are also getting richer. King George the III couldn't buy a microwave no matter what he paid.

Thanks for your support wage slave. Maybe you'll be promoted to field Foreman. Maybe one day you'll be able to live in the big house.

>Farther down the road, there will be nobody left who can buy the products and services these companies provide.

Alas, nobody seems to remember this basic principle, or of they do they're one of those people who just don't give a shit about the future after they're dead. Just wring some more sheckles out of the meatbags for as long as we can, right?

"Socialism doesn't work"
Consider this graph.

The cartoon was made in 2010.

Ok, Winston.

Well, I don't think it would be too hard to find out where these 60 people live. Just saying

Nope. State says that certain fundamental basic needs of society can not be SOLELY run for profit and instead will be provided by the state paid for by taxation.

This happens in all developed countries already to and extent. Democratic socialism looks to apply more protections than we see in, say the States.

You can have universal healthcare but there is nothing stopping private companies offering healthcare alongside that.


The UK offers universal healthcare to all citizens. Do you think the UK is a socialist country or a capitalist country?

>wage slave

>People don't just give me shit, therefor I am a slave

Ur a beta faggot.

Capitalism is a fictional character who served Marx in the same way as the leviathan served Hobbes.

A few years ago I would have gone into an autistic screeching fit over that, but you're right.
Immigrants are just following the money, they're rational actors the same as the (((capitalists))) that import them. Meanwhile the white worker is shafted by his own altruism. While I certainly want them to go back, the guilt falls squarely in the lap of those who brought them here.

Unions were demanding too much, had too much power, and were corrupted by the mafia and (surprise surprise) Democrats.

I don't blame the immigrants, I blame the policies that allowed this situation to come about, and the politics that makes solving it (relatively simple to do), impossible.

It sure worked for germany. Oh wait it killed millions of its own population and razed all the cities to the ground before imploding

Unfortunately true

Kek

He still believes that success is earned.

Success is like 90% luck combined with 5% effort and 5% ability.

Example: there are countless people working in finance who know just as much as Warret Buffet and are putting in as much work as he does. Will they ever be worth 60 billion US dollar? I don't think so.

>turned a country wracked by hyperinflation, war debts, and degeneracy into the strongest nation in Europe in less than a decade
>took all three superpowers and a good chunk of the rest of the world to crush it
Yeah, I'd call that a success.

user you know that capitalists can screw workers out of their own economic and political interest right, there doesn't have to be a jewish conspiracy behind it all

Google Venezuela today, and see how socialism is working.

more like 90% who you know

Red Pills are cultural-Marxist (in use of its actual meaning) propaganda.

Capitalism is white man's greed. That's the purest definition of capitalism.

Sweeden's gonna be moving rapidly upwards on that graph. Problem is socialist societies work best where the population is homogeneous.

Like I said, Jewish capitalists are rational actors. It's in their interest to have a population of low-IQ brown serfs who never experienced prosperity and therefore won't complain when their masters pay them $5 a day and make them live in a slightly nicer favela than they had back in Bongobongoland.

White genocide is driven by economic interests as much as ethnic hatred.

It obviously wasn't the strongest nation in Europe since Soviet crushed it. By your logic bolshevism is the only system that works since it transformed Russia from a literal peasant society to a massively productive industrial nation in a decade or two, all while beating the Nazis

Fuck nazis, capitalists, and liberalists

And white capitalists act out of altruism I take it? What makes you think they won't just take their assets and run away to UAE or Nice the moment any somewhat socialist policies are implemented?

The "Unemployment rate" Is pure fiction. A meaningless number the politicians use to make themselves look good. It does not include the majority of people without jobs who aren't getting monthly benefits.

Because you, like every other millenial, are mistaking corporate socialism for capitalism. America hasn't been a truly capitalist nation for very nearly a century now. Every other nation on Earth that has embraced the old West/American capitalist model in the most recent 30-40 years has catapulted themselves out of third world status and become some of the richest nations on Earth. What makes more sense? (A) Despite the rapid growth of industry and wealth shared by all Americans in the early to mid 1900s that capitalism just suddenly and inexplicably shit the bed for no more reason than because capitalism never actually worked to begin with despite the fact that foreign nations that have recently embraced capitalism are doing incredibly well OOOORRRRRR (B) Greedy corporations and politicians saw the potential to gain enormous wealth and power by scaring the public into willingly giving the government more tax and more control, forcing them to secretly embrace a more socialist system and THEN incorrectly and innaccurately blaming that damn greedy "capitalism" in order to get the people (who are apparently too stupid to know how to look up textbook definitions and think for themselves) to renounce it and fully and openly embrace the corporare socialist system that pulled us all into the dirt to begin with?

How many countries refer to their governments as capitalists? (Union of the Capitalist Republics?, United Capitalist States?, Capitalist Popular Republic?)
How many capitalist parties do you know?
How many scholars define their theories and ideals as capitalists?

Stalinism in particular, the style of Bolshevism that was in use in the USSR, was actually not that bad as Jewish Socialism goes. But then, the other two superpowers, Britain and America, were run by capitalists. It took their combined efforts to crush one tiny fascist nation.

>And white capitalists act out of altruism I take it?
By no means. I know that in the current state of affairs the overriding concern of everyone is "how can I get more shekels."
>What makes you think they won't just take their assets and run away to UAE or Nice the moment any somewhat socialist policies are implemented?

I think this is because capitalisms a dirty word, whereas liberalism often gets associated with freedom. Same with socialism, a lot of people want it so that's why everybody from the Soviet Union to Bernie calls themselves socialists

That's a great example ... if you are retarded.

Being poor is not about what gadgets you have. Evolutionary speaking it's about for how many children (and wifes) could you provide?

(never thought I would cite the bible on Sup Forums but whatever)
King Salomo is described as having 300 wives and 700 concubines. If you can provide for a 1000 useless bitches who you keep around just for your dick, you are rich - no matter the time you live in.

Republican and democrat, anymore silly questions?

You are truly a liberal nigger lover. Let me guess Europe or California?

Whoops, I didn't finish that last reply.
>What makes you think they won't just take their assets and run away to UAE or Nice the moment any somewhat socialist policies are implemented?
You can stop money from leaving the country, you know. You can even stop people from leaving the country, as odd as it sounds. But that's kind of a short-term solution. You have to encourage a culture of national interest rather than personal interest. Thankfully that's far less difficult and more natural than Marxist proletarianism- people instinctively identify with their culture and race, they don't do so as a worker or a capitalist.

Believing that the outlanders are the problem is a shallow and unbiased analysis of a society.
The problem are the elites, the owners of the big industries. Look at the graph: the accumulation of capital on fewer hands is linear to the problems of the society.
Marx's hypothesis is correct.

>By no means. I know that in the current state of affairs the overriding concern of everyone is "how can I get more shekels."

Well, how can capitalists work in any other way?

>Marx
>correct about anything, ever
Ha ha, so fahnny joke.

FAGGOT

How's that labor theory of value working out for you, commie? How about that historical dialectic?
It's been "late capitalism" for what, seventy years now?

>one tiny fascist nation
Germany was possibly the most advanced nation on earth from 1870's to 1940's, and in order to get to them in the west, the Allies had to prepare a naval landing, something extremely risky. They were the underdogs, sure, but not by as much as you would like to think.

Typical white male response.

do you own a tin foil hat?

Even right-wing academics agree that Marx is one of the most important philosophers of the 19th century. You must not read a lot.
You don't have to insult him...

i live in portugal and it is one of the most socialist countries in europe... that graph just shows that the more liberalized the economy the less social problems and income inequality

>le edgy high schooler shirt