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• samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah, “capitalism” here means specifically “late-stage capitalism.”

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  • arakhis_@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Now also actually discuss. Would love to know “how” I’m wrong

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    • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You’re not, I’m agreeing with you.

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      • arakhis_@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yes but no. I also see that in terms of late stage capitalism specifically - but I think in a sibling comment this discussion already happened.

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• lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Buying an apple from a local farmer is not capitalism

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• untorquer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Your example is fine. It’s not an option for most people to be able to source everything they need where the supply chain doesn’t rely on exploitation of labor and resource extraction somewhere along the process. Whether it’s in the materials used by the producer, the logistics in goods transport(oil & gas, shipping, warehousing, etc), or manufacturing of goods (labor, production house, etc…), the chain relies on exploitation somewhere along the way.

  Buying the apple from your local farmer still relies on the oil industry to run farm equipment or transit of the product. By and large this is minimize when buying local from independent producers. Those, however, are often more expensive.

  The consumer is the last step of exploitation. Where the profit stems from. Again, your local farmer probably isn’t extorting you, but your local grocery store probably is.

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  • arakhis_@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    So “how” is there no regulation solution – my initial statement in question

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    • untorquer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Sure regulate it then, effectively, and cut out any international trade which allows for the procurement of goods through a non-regulated system. Find a common agreement of what regulation is and find a way to ensure no one has an incentive to break that regulation. Find a way to ensure that a capitalist cannot accrue such wealth as to influence politics (or skirt whatever law you want against it).

      The only people I’ve heard who want NO regulation are AnCaps and yeah lol no - (and also they still want property rights ig).

      People just want a better system than what we have now. Which is laissez-faire capitalism. Beyond that there’s the political philosophical aspect that “capitalism” can and does effectively mean rule by the wealthiest.

      Lot’s of people would be happy with a market system in a socialist society. Lots of people want Anarchism. Lots of people want Communism(the good or bad kind depending on who you ask).

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      • arakhis_@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Id just love to see more corporations being like Mondragon(spanish) in the top ranks (i.e. stock corpos) but I would not want governments to gain ownership forcefully of them.

        So I’d call it regulated capitalism - as you said, just not paleo libertarian laissez-faire as we clearly see how that doesnt work once all markets are established (and even the competition phase was, as we all should know, pretty questionable historically cough imperialism cough)

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I buy bread from the local baker who is known as the German baker because they make kickass brotchen and these fantastic sesame and marzipan (my autocorrect said marsupial and while I do not doubt their skill I doubt their gluten) twists. They were across the parking lot from my first job and I did not know it but they had also just opened that year.

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