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You could live in the socialist utopia that is the soviet union... Oh wait
Almost like glorification of any economic system is bad, rather than using them for their actual purposes.
People keep trying to use these systems forgetting human greed exists and will continue to exist
Capitalism uses people greed to benefit everyone. If people want to make money they need to provide a good/service that is better / cheaper than the rest of the market. Everyone wins. It's only when government gets involved and starts picking winners and losers that it goes sideways.
TLDR: Capitalism works BECAUSE of greed.
Capitalism will also always end in fascism because of greed. Greed is what motivates companies to beg for government handouts when the market deemed them unfit.
Greed is what motivates them to influence politics via regulatory capture and lobbying.
Greed is what moti ates them to push worse and worse quality products and services for higher and higher prices.
Greed is what makes capital owners pay their employees wages insufficient to live on, while pocketing 90+% of the profit generated by the same employees. All while actually doing nothing of value.
Yeah, the system is built on greed. This isn't a good thing, and the fact that you think it is just boggles my mind. Are you being paid to push this? Do you really want to see your progeny enslaved that badly? What the fuck is the matter with you?
They just love the taste of that boot so fuckin bad.
I do, just as much as you love the taste of my swamp ass