Has capitalism gone too far? 

"DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever" (eg6) 10/08/2018 at 10:07 • Filed to: None

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I was watching my Monday morning RCR, when I got an ad within an ad. I don’t mean two ads back to back. But an ad, that was thanking a sponsor for sponsoring their own ad?

anyhoo, seize the means of production comrades.

Nibby > DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever 10/08/2018 at 10:11

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LongbowMkII > Nibby 10/08/2018 at 10:14

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Lies.

My citroen won't start > Nibby 10/08/2018 at 10:19

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You gotta start killing the bourgeoisie at some point

Nibby > My citroen won't start 10/08/2018 at 10:21

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killing is haram

My citroen won't start > Nibby 10/08/2018 at 10:22

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Nibby > My citroen won't start 10/08/2018 at 10:23

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KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever 10/08/2018 at 10:29

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No THIS is the sign of Capitalism having gone too far

https://www.thisisinsider.com/nobel-prize-winner-sold-medal-to-pay-medical-bills-2018-10

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/amazon-cuts-bonuses-leads-questions-about-wage-hike-n916466

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever 10/08/2018 at 10:34

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Yes.

How about we start with taxing the rich so we can afford to maintain our society and see how that goes before we venture all the way into revolution?

PS9 > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 10/08/2018 at 10:34

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Only a communist who doesn’t want to #MAGA would post that.

Urambo Tauro > DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever 10/08/2018 at 10:36

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I’ve been seeing this one a lot lately.

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ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 10/08/2018 at 10:38

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That Amazon story is difficult. I would argue that guaranteed wages are better than potential ones; and a lot of those bonuses were based on potentialities.

So, I fully suppose that there are specific instances where someone is losing money with the new pay scale. But I think overall this is better for a lot more people as it ties their wages to their regular hours and not market forces they have no control over.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) 10/08/2018 at 10:45

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Yeah I read the specifics but Jeff Bezos is one of the richest people on the planet. He can afford to do both and still be one of the richest people on the planet. It’s good, but could be better given the conditions some of these workers experience.

npc58501 > DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever 10/08/2018 at 10:52

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Capitalism and corporatism are not the same thing. YouTube is already censoring and demonetizing...with rapidly increasing cooperation with our government...that’s becoming corporatism .

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > Urambo Tauro 10/08/2018 at 10:53

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A D C E P T I O N

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 10/08/2018 at 10:56

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Agreed.

He makes 215 Million dollars AN HOUR.

Shit’s broken, yo.

Urambo Tauro > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 10/08/2018 at 11:38

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“ We know you hate ads, so we made this ad for you. Install our ad remover so you won’t see this ad.”

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > Urambo Tauro 10/08/2018 at 11:39

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Yo dawg

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever 10/08/2018 at 11:44

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... the depth of faith in the Constitution and Declaration of Independence that the federalist experiment of political and economic self-governance within a framework of socially negotiated and governed boundaries, to let people make their own decisions on how to manage their own affairs.

Strongmen and thugs above the law, telling other men what they can and cannot do, under threat of punishment or death, are tyrants, whether they be criminals or governments.

Book: A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned.

Simon: Now you’re quoting the Captain .

-Firefly

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I would only add context to Mr. Churchill’s quote that pure majority-rule democracy is very rarely practiced, without some sort of mitigating factor protecting the minority, anywhere from the individual to half the population minus one.

The US is a democratically representative republic for that reason, not a democracy.... and in actuality THAT is the worst form of government, except for all the others, in the spirit of Churchill’s sentiment.

I often paraphrase and adapt Churchill’s sentiment to economics, as well as politics... as “Capitalism is the worst form of economics, except for all the others.”

The sentiment being that no human institution is perfect, and all human institutions are as flawed and corruptible/corrupted as the humans involved, but leaving people to do as much for themselves as possible, and having an organized system of impartial legal redress, is the least inherently imperfect, because power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

All other systems that tend to depend on the will of some people over other people to whatever degree... has devolved into a worse system, every time it has been tried... and it has been tried throughout human history.

Biggus Dickus (RevsBro) > ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) 10/08/2018 at 12:24

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Value =/= cash income. The vast majority of his wealth is in his stock holdings of AMZN . . . . Not cash income.

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever 10/08/2018 at 12:33

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Was it one of those weird collaboration ads with somebody and Geico? Those are just strange.

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > Biggus Dickus (RevsBro) 10/08/2018 at 12:37

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No single person should be allowed to hoard that much wealth. Whatever financial widget is used to ‘prove’ it is irrelevant.

EngineerWithTools > npc58501 10/08/2018 at 12:45

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I generally hate to comment on this type of thing, and aren’t current on what is going on with YouTube, but with those caveats out of the way...

So so true about corporatism and capitalism. Capitalism is a relatively recent development, while corporatism (the combination of absolute political and economic power ) has been around at least since humans stopped being hunter-gatherers.

DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 10/08/2018 at 12:56

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Not Geico, but it was an ad for some shitty mobile game that was sponsored by the new “Assassins Creed”.