It wasn’t capitalism that that said bail out large companies when they make bad investments. It wasn’t capitalism that said hand out free loans to any company who asks during covid. It’s not capitalism that prohibited community based ISPs.
leya@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Saying capitalism isn’t the problem but monopolies are is like saying a cancerous tumor isn’t the problem, but the aggressive metastasis is.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
athatet@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Alright. What was it then?
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
It wasn’t capitalism in the same way that “it wasn’t real communism”.
Sure, I guess maybe, but it’s the inevitable outcome of the processes that define capitalism. Just as all kittens become cats, this is what all capitalism becomes.
Glide@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
“Stop saying he was killed by a gun! It was the blood loss that did him in!”
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Bullets don’t kill people! It’s the hydrostatic shock caused by Newtonian forces that is the real villain!