What is this image from and what gives you the right to introduce me to new fetishes this casually?
this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2026
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Capitalism isn't the problem because capitalism and competent democracy have in some cases proven to create happiness and minimize suffering. Meanwhile, supposed solutions to capitalism more often than not create minimal progress and sometimes result in autocratic hellscapes.
The real problem is billions of monkeys who cannot agree on a complicated system of redistribution of wealth and governance that balances civil freedoms with regulatory power to restrict bad actors.
When governance and corporate remains separated it seems to work a little better. Also some sprinklings of socialist policy like free transit and healthcare, some government owned essential services like energy and food.
Energy would be fine, and central planning for food is good, with incentives and subsidies to grow food which might otherwise be at cost, but if the government owns the production of food directly that can cause problems like it did in China, USSR, Nazi Germany, Ireland, France under Monarchy, and like a hundred other times as well.
In fact recent famines in Iran and Afghanistan were the result of overproduction of cash crops like Saffron. I'm not 100% on whats going on in Cuba but they're historically an agricultural nation onset by famine during the blockades, so I'm guessing they grew a lot of tobacco and spices.
Sorry, I went on a bit of a rant there. Hard agree on everything else you said.
In fact recent famines in Iran and Afghanistan were the result of overproduction of cash crops like Saffron
Do you have sources for this? I'ma be honest: when a country is laboring under brutal sanctions - sanctions designed to create famine conditions, to make ordinary citizens desperate enough to overthrow their government - claiming that the famines are really caused by that government making farmers grow the wrong crops... I'm willing to be proven wrong but that doesn't pass the smell test to me.
Lol, dudes blaming Iran famine on other countries and not the dictatorship who chose to move out of the capital to avoid it affecting them personally.
counterpoint: corruption. Capitalists have vested interest to NOT get regulated and will thus pay off politicians to act in their best interest not in the best interest of the population.
There has never been a system without corruption. Corrupt people have existed whether in capitalism or without, and have a vested interest in every scenario.
Sure corruption is not an invention of capitalism, but one of the problems of capitalism is that it promotes and favors corruption. Lobbyists are an easy example of what I mean.
How can corruption be promoted and favored by capitalism when a capitalism is the least corrupt nation on earth and anticapitalist systems have never come close?
Try and explain how lobbying currently works then, without including corruption
Why would I do that? How is lobbying the thing that makes a system more corrupt than examples of other systems attempted like a communist dictatorship or an Anarchy where the guy with the most guns gets to fuck everybody's wife and daughter?
Capitalism doesn't require lobbying to be legal in the first place. Capitalism refers to a system of production and distribution of goods with hard requirements of currency, private property, and competition.
there has never been a colonial system without corruption*
pre-colonial societies had ways of being and existing that colonists erased and eliminated. we exist in the broken world colonists created and the main thing preventing us from building a better world is a lack of imagination that a better world is even possible
There have always been chiefs and patriarchies, unnecessary starvation and war. Not having electricity didn't make the gauls or goths more noble in their savagery, nor even the lakota for all their spiritualism about coexistence with nature.
i'm well aware that indigenous societies aren't perfect. however refusing to draw wisdom from groups that found things that worked exceptionally well like the Haudenosaunee, Shawnee, and Muscogee is frankly irresponsible and is just a continued process of subjugating knowlege.
the greatest knowledge on offer throughout history has been that a society that allows for a small group to own everything, and a large group to own nothing, will always turn to police states, oppressive subjugation, and the worst things that humanity is capable of