Just wow.

Also dudes talking about the market, which isn't the same as capitalism afaik.

  • goose [he/him]
    hexbear
    59
    6 months ago

    If you ask ten Americans to explain capitalism, nine will simply describe a market economy

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
        hexbear
        14
        6 months ago

        It's true. Friend of mine has a politics degree from a world renowned university and still insists that capitalism existed in antiquity because people exchanged goods for currency.

      • danisth [he/him]
        hexbear
        13
        6 months ago

        Graebers “Debt” does a great job of deconstructing this. Econ 101 really creates so many brainworms.

  • @CrushKillDestroySwag
    hexbear
    37
    6 months ago

    This much better describes gift economies and pre-capitalist societies than it does capitalist ones, where the person giving you a haircut has to pay rent for the chair to a capitalist who doesn't have to do any labor at all.

  • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
    hexbear
    32
    edit-2
    6 months ago

    their life is better because they have the money they wanted

    wanted

    food cost mony

    voluntary exchange

  • Tachanka [comrade/them]
    hexbear
    25
    6 months ago

    giving money to someone occasionally for a service is not the same as employing them on a daily basis to extract profit from their labor

    • DayOfDoom [any, any]
      hexbear
      8
      6 months ago

      Yeah but, what if you paid someone to hire them to cut your hair?

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      hexbear
      12
      6 months ago

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    • barrbaric [he/him]
      hexbear
      4
      6 months ago

      You can cut your hair with just a bathroom mirror and a dull set of scissors if you're serious about it.

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
    hexbear
    16
    edit-2
    6 months ago

    "Capitalism is when something other than the government does stuff."

    MFW communists are all ancaps because they want a stateless society but don't just want to return to monke. MFW this means I'm an ancap. MFW I have no face.

  • WhyEssEff [she/her]
    hexbear
    16
    edit-2
    6 months ago

    okay but what about the untold amount of emiseration in exchange for that luxury

    • WhyEssEff [she/her]
      hexbear
      15
      edit-2
      6 months ago

      if your argument can be thoroughly rebuked by just pointing a finger towards slavery you shouldn't post it

  • @DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
    hexbear
    14
    6 months ago

    "My life is better when I force these people to work for me as slaves, and their lives are better because I'm not killing them for resisting. Win-win."