That has to be bait. It's pretty good bait too honestly
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If I had a reddit account, it wouldn't be a bad idea to read Capital and every couple of chapters post scenarios and examples posed by Marx as questions like this.
"Can someone explain to me why the cost of linen is only $10 a square foot but a coat costs $40?"
Leftists need to also be doing the bad faith “just asking questions”, irony, and “playing Devil’s advocate” tactics to slowly normalize progressive ideas.
My friend you are so so close to a real epiphany.
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Homie, that is what they HAVE been doing. For the last 100 years. Holy shit.
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you mean like houses?
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Aren’t Nestle and. Coca Cola company any trying to do this with water?
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Stuff like pharmaceuticals and health care? We are already there.
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Welcome to capitalism.
And then there's the one person saying "well this is absolutely irrational, the free market allocates resources perfectly."
Always some fuckin dork
babbys first moment of class consciousness
I forgot who said it but it's something like "Americans identify primarily as consumers rather than a class"
That's it, I'm going to airdrop copies of the manifesto across America after I CTRL-F & Replace "Proletariat" with "Consumer Class".
I consume. Therefore I am
A very obvious example would be just be that in the 2000s, pension funds, mutual funds etc, created a bubble in commodities (oil, wheat) by purchasing large amounts of it (and its derivatives). Very painful for poorer countries, it wasn't as bad as it would've been since 2000s also saw massive surge of $ abroad in form of foreign investments and demand in the West, so currencies stayed stable/appreciated.
Its best the rich play around with financial claims and electronic entries than real goods. Ofc, its best best if speculation didn't exist at all.
actually it's somehow bad that we think starving kids should be fed by expropriating assets from people with more money than they could spend in a million lifetimes
EDIT: wrong thread but it kind of applies to the responses
What if the rich people bought up all the borgers?
high end gaming computer parts have become a luxury item you say?
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