Comment on "It's Communism": Kamala's First Economic Plan Proposes Price Controls To "Combat Inflation"

• I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Record profits from grocery stores and food supplies. But please, tell me more about how they can’t afford to drop prices and it would be unprofitable.

  Keep in mind, unprofitable means going into the red; not just making less profit than the previous quarter. Infinite growth is an insane philosophy, especially for basic goods.

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• zeppo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You realize that food producers in a communist nation wouldn’t be supposed to make profits, right? The problems with that in various countries were from poorly done central planning.

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  • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s an inherent flaw in communism. People starve under the system.

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    • zeppo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not any more than it is under capitalism. People starve under that system too. Meanwhile you have Republicans crying that a state might pay $1.50 a day to feed a needy kid lunch at school. Why is that even necessary then?

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      • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        My friends who survived communism would disagree with you. Do you have a cite to show otherwise?

        Looking at Venezuela, I have not seen anything like that here, have you? or Cuba? When I was in Cuba, malnutrition was common.

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    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Source? Communism has never been implemented, and the systems designed to transition to communism, e.g. the USSR, we’re actually pretty successful in decreasing hunger. People starve under capitalism.

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      • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yes, it has. Venezuela, Cuba, the soviet block.

        Starvation was common under the Soviets.

        historyhit.com/why-did-the-soviet-union-suffer-ch…

        Talk to anyone who survived communism. It is a common theme. That is why one of my friends defected. He came to America and saw a grocery store.

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• aniki@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is why you shitpost to other terminally online morons instead of running a bussiness:

  Why would it be better to be less profitable [sell less] than to sell for slightly less profit, essentially with the same inelastic demand?

  Oh because you’re actually a fucking toolbag.

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  • realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    @aniki @wintermute_oregon "Only mean people have healthy margins in their business ventures" is the quintessential terminally online take

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    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Healthy margins ≠ record profits

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• realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  @wintermute_oregon @Amoxtli To be fair to the others, this isn't technically #Socialism or #Communism, it's a #MixedMarket. Problem is that you're also right, this is how we drift away from #Capitalism.

  The left wingers in the thread aren't upset that this is being called out because it's inaccurate, it's because they want #Communism but understand that #Communism is scary to the masses because of its past failures.

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