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Recessions, financial crashes and the like have been happening ever since Capitalism has been formed, as late as 1637 and since the industrial revolution to the expansion of the system worldwide, they have consistently happened on average once a decade.
Even just taking the post-war US
1948-1949
1953-1954
1957-1958
1960-1961
1969-1970
1973-1975
1980; 1981-1982
1990-1991
2001
2007-2009
2020
Both in times of Keynesian spending-driven capitalism and monetarist wage-braking capitalism. Not to mention how recessions were avoided in times of growth, such as the pre-Lehman Brothers speculatory bubble in real estate or the Biden administration throwing Europe to the wolves currently.
I'm not sure how they're going to eliminate the boom bust cycle when it's an inherent part of a capitalist economy. Turns out business owners don't like giving up their ability to squeeze the life from their employees and pay them the smallest amount possible when the only goal is profit and growth.
Trust me bro I just have to adjust the interest rates just right I’ll figure it out TRUST ME BRO
200 years of evidence and they still say the same shit.
Even if you could cure "demand-side recessions" this shit would still occur because capitalism has absolutely no central authority with which to mount a response whenever an unexpected crisis hits. Disasters happen. Big events that shake up the system happen. You can't cure these and you can't resolve capitalism's inability to respond adequately to them.
They did when Covid hit, but to be fair a global pandemic is a good enough reason for a recession to happen unlike a preinstalled boom-bust cycle.
And even when they do suffer economic crises, they usually attempt to take action to stay afloat. The US just sends a zooted Kamala to spread good vibes
its been over two centuries and they still haven't figured it out.
This literally sounds like Hexbear user sarcasm lmfao, they cant even pretend to be on top of things anymore
eventually
After centuries of massacring communists, socialists, trade unionists, child workers, foreign workers, anarchists, and even liberals who just want a dollar raise, they still couldn’t figure out how stop recurring crises?
Kevin spilled his Chili on accident. The bourgeoisie do it on purpose. This is insulting to Kevin.
He almost gets it. If capitalism didn't cause the problems it causes, we wouldn't complain about it. But also, if it didn't cause those problems, it wouldn't be capitalism.
I always imagine/hope that after enough wrong predictions, the right will somehow realise that they're wrong and grow up. And I'm always disappointed.
Workers are causing all the recessions by selfishly not spending enough of our ever-diminishing incomes on consumer goods.
