• RNAi [he/him]
        hexagon
        hexbear
        4
        4 months ago

        Regardless of how many poor, homeless or incarcerated there are, "capitalism" doesn't fail because its goal doesnt care about those numbers

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      29
      4 months ago

      Seriously, libertarians couldn't even set up a single town.

      Previous attempts involve brilliant moves like building a town in the middle of the dessert where there's no water infrastructure and then refusing tonpay to have water hauled there and trying to set up a town in New Hampshire, literally one of the most easily habitable places on the planet, but refusing to conform to fascist trash disposal policies so the town got taken over by bears.

      Every time a libertarian gets free reign to do whatever they want it seems like somebody making fun of libertarians.

  • @theposterformerlyknownasgood
    hexbear
    60
    4 months ago

    It's great because all the Austrian school ghouls are fully delusional about it. "Oh it's just that he removed the fake parts of the economy so obviously it looks smaller now"

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
      hexbear
      33
      edit-2
      4 months ago

      Heeey I remember the "fake economy" buzzword

      Amazing how they use it to mean public teachers and doctors and not for fucking stonks

      A great phrase completely hijacked by the most repellent dipshits you can find.

    • AutomatedPossum [she/her]
      hexbear
      29
      4 months ago

      "You obviously can't see the surplus value generated by the Invisible Hand, it's invisible, you dingus!"

  • Harajukum [any]
    hexbear
    36
    4 months ago

    'people' on r/economy consider this a good thing monkey-typewriter

  • happybadger [he/him]
    hexbear
    33
    4 months ago

    The ghost dog I trust to run our nation's economy has failed me. He has failed us. He is a bad boy.

      • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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        19
        4 months ago

        Definitely, but not that fast, shock therapy in Poland and DDR wasn't so fast and there were social safety nets maintained from the socialist times or implemented ad hoc in fear of spontaneous riots if the people would suddenly wake up and see the trap.

        Argentina have none of this, it is shock therapy right in the face of already neoliberal country.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
      hexbear
      26
      4 months ago

      [Narrator's voice] "He didn't"

    • Adkml [he/him]
      hexbear
      7
      4 months ago

      Turns out if you set government spending on programs to help people to zero you can just give all the tax money to your friends and have a balanced budget.

  • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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    20
    4 months ago

    Destroying industrial society by electing libertarians

    Ted K was a bit of a libertarian himself iirc