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dookifex_maximus
Aug 10, 2016

by zen death robot
hey, hands off the market. it's busy correcting for surplus population.

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dookifex_maximus
Aug 10, 2016

by zen death robot

Arian_Samurai posted:

I'll do it, but only if the TP has American flags printed on it

this is actually a great way of making sure it gets to the people.

dookifex_maximus
Aug 10, 2016

by zen death robot

Moridin920 posted:

that's kind of a weird argument. you admit it worked okay under Chavez with high oil prices, but X happened and it collapsed so therefore it doesn't work.

Well... the number of capitalist societies that have undergone radical upheaval and collapse because of a financial crisis is much greater than the number of socialist ones. As if the USA has never had bread lines lol. Doesn't suddenly mean free market mechanics in their entirety are bunk.

I can address this: communism needs to fulfill 100% of the economy's needs to succeed in its stated goals whereas in capitalism the only need is for one agent to exist from year to year to keep the economy "going"

in communism, if one person dies, that's failure but in capitalism you can kill anybody and anything and it's a valid economic action, as long as the economy is extant

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