this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2023
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[–] covert_czar@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So that the greed can donate to kindness¯\_(ツ)_/¯ What a pity

[–] Guydht@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (9 children)

How is this a meme

Also classic lammy.ml hating everything about the west

[–] mayoi@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

It's a meme because some people don't understand that monetary system isn't political.

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think the meme are OP's political ideas

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[–] rchive@lemm.ee -5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Capitalists would argue that between capitalism and socialism, capitalism is the one that better accounts for greed, as it generally has laws to con strain it but otherwise uses it to generate all the production that's the hallmark of modern society, division of labor, economy of scale, technological advancement, etc. Socialism doesn't really deal with greed, it just sort of wishes it away. That's why so many societies that have started down the socialist path have become at best poor and at worst authoritarian murder factories like the Soviet Union, Maoist China, Chavist Venezuela, the Khmer Rouge's Cambodia, etc.

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