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lolbertarians are some of the dumbest people on earth.

okay, let’s say it is “crony capitalism run by the state” (he doesn’t mean state capitalism, he doesn’t know what that means)

what else can capitalism become, especially without extremely strict regulation and wealth/income caps- all things these people are against? and to the extent that the state has its hand in the economy, is it not ONLY to benefit corporations? they’re not regulating these companies or anything to any meaningful degree. so if the government is bad because they only serve big business, even in their own completely nonsensical analysis, doesnt that still make capitalism the problem?

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We can let people operate their own modest independent businesses without also letting Walmart exist. We can let people earn enough modest profit from the fruits of their labor to make starting new businesses worthwhile, without also allowing people to hoard such vast fortunes that they become geopolitically dangerous. We can have commerce without capitalism.

wow i couldn't disagree more. beheading small business tyrants for their crimes against the workers is going to be the best part of the revolution and it'd be better not to have one at all if we're going to let "modest independent businesses" continue to earn "modest profit" afterwards