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If you don't like them being called capitalist, then your quarrel is with a whole heap of people (and academics).
The question, like I alluded to earlier, isn't whether they are capitalist, but a question of how much. And many, after careful study, have determined them to be capitalist.
Those determinations are based on measurable things and philosophy (somewhat).
Also: you are clearly not my original intended audience. In the referenced thread I was getting low-effort, glib comments that snowballed upvotes.
Not unlike the person who deemed me to be a republican. It's easy to look at my post history.
I'm not a republican. But glib is easy. And glib, low-effort posters were the primary intended audience. Know-it-alls.
I'm going to make a glib comment; So they're 25% capitalist and 30% socialist and 10% communist and the rest something else. It doesn't mean they're a primarily capitalist economy.
I get that you're having a bit of fun. On a separate branch here, I make a similar point.
What people argue about is how much of one makes it "x." They can seldom say it's not capitalist, socialist or even communist.
We quibble over which side of a line it lands. And googling this lead to about a 50/50 split between capitalist and socialist.
I didn't pull the idea that they're capitalist out of my ass.
And all of the side stuff is people completely missing the article. It's pedantic and cheap intellectual points and so rarely thoughtful or insightful.
Is lemmy usually this wannabe edgelord?
Aren't all the reddit expats intentionally edgy by leaving reddit? You've got the cream on top.