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removing capitalism will solve most issues
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Capitalism is a tool, and if you use the tool wrong it will hurt you. Unfortunately we seem to be worshipping the tool and declaring any other tool as dangerous.
"Wow this knife is really sharp and cuts great, imagine how well it will cut if there was no handle, only blade!"
And of course capitalism should not have a place at all where demand is largely inelastic. That is to say, healthcare, mainly.
Capitalism is a tool to concentrate wealth into a small number of hands.
There is no good version of it.
Trade can work without capital ownership.
It's always staggering to see people who know absolutely fuck all about supply chains and trade flows point to the Bitcoin trading desk of JP Morgan and proclaim "if not for these brave souls, nothing good in your life would exist".
I'm not even strictly against capitalism. I still subscribe to the old school Marxist "stages of history" theory that says "okay at some point you kinda gotta". But then you see people living in a rancid stew of monopoly middle men proudly proclaiming "Best of All Possible Worlds!" and my eyes roll so hard they practically fall out of my head.
What a bullshit argument.
What do you believe capitalism is actually a "tool" for?
A generous interpretation would be to focus production towards consumer demand independent of ideology.
Anybody thinking capitalism only has downsides for the people living under it is living in a fantasy world of their own making.
Any crticism of capitalism worth their salt will stop treating it like an evil force imposed by the few on the many and more like a way society organizes itself.
Have you tried reading a book?
Hahahahaha, pathetic.
A tool to create corporatism
Its a tool that hurts you just for knowing of its existence. Horrible analogy by the way.
A tool that is used for a purpose other than it was intended is useless.
Capitalism was built to exploit and repress the masses. Using it to accomplish something else will fail.
You're a tool