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minus-squareVoroxpete@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up111arrow-down3·2 months agoAh yes. What a wonderfully efficient system capitalism is. So very good at utilizing resources.
minus-squareLushed_Lungfish@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down9·2 months agoIt actually is VERY good at utilizing resources. Preserving them for the future, not so much.
minus-squarefodor@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 months agoNot quite. Factories will stay closed, houses empty.
minus-squarestarik@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down17·2 months agoFree markets are a lot more efficient than trying to run the whole economy from the top down. We just need to tax accumulated wealth.
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·2 months agoThere are other systems than unhinged capitalism and top down communism.
minus-squareFatCrab@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 months agoCapitalism and free markets are not the same thing, nor is either particularly necessary to the other.
minus-squareDr. Moose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·2 months agoFree markets are absolutely necessary for capitalism.
minus-square6stringringer@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·2 months agoYes. Buuut what type of capitalism are we talkin’ bout?
minus-squarestarik@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoThe comment I was replying to seemed to assume capitalism had something to do with resource allocation.
minus-squareDr. Moose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down10·2 months agoAll these tankies down voting you as if the entire world wasn’t running on this principle and as if something better existed. Free markets with oversight are simply unbeatable - fact.
minus-squareWakmrow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·1 month agoWhat’s the largest manufacturing country
minus-squareDr. Moose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 month agoYou think China is not capitalist? China that told it’s citizens to: please stop competing so much?
Ah yes. What a wonderfully efficient system capitalism is. So very good at utilizing resources.
It actually is VERY good at utilizing resources.
Preserving them for the future, not so much.
Not quite. Factories will stay closed, houses empty.
Free markets are a lot more efficient than trying to run the whole economy from the top down. We just need to tax accumulated wealth.
There are other systems than unhinged capitalism and top down communism.
Like?
Capitalism and free markets are not the same thing, nor is either particularly necessary to the other.
Free markets are absolutely necessary for capitalism.
Yes. Buuut what type of capitalism are we talkin’ bout?
Or exclusive.
The comment I was replying to seemed to assume capitalism had something to do with resource allocation.
All these tankies down voting you as if the entire world wasn’t running on this principle and as if something better existed. Free markets with oversight are simply unbeatable - fact.
What’s the largest manufacturing country
You think China is not capitalist? China that told it’s citizens to: please stop competing so much?