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minus-squarecallouscomic@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 days ago…and oligarchy, and fascism, and income inequality, and decreasing life expectancy, and increasing infant mortality, and more wars, and huge amounts of debt, and job loss, and…
minus-squarebufalo1973@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 days agoShort version: unchecked capitalism.
minus-squarenogooduser@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 days agoBut I was told that capitalism checks itself using something called “market forces”.
minus-squareMiles O'Brien@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 days agoTurns out “market forces” was just the heavy metal poisoning talking, they were just hallucinating magical economics. Lead in gasoline and household products really fucked with some generations, hard.
minus-squareCruel@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 days agoYeah. Those problems totally didn’t exist before capitalism.
minus-squareZorque@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 days agoNot all at once, no. Fascism didn’t even exist until the 1920s.
minus-squareBananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 days agoBesides that it’s smooth sailing.
minus-squareThorry@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 days ago… and microplastics, and resource scarcity, and MRSA, and infrastructure collapse, and social media addiction, and …
minus-squareZMoney@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 days ago“We didn’t start the fire…” But you guys threw a bunch of petroleum and coal and tar sands on it
…and oligarchy, and fascism, and income inequality, and decreasing life expectancy, and increasing infant mortality, and more wars, and huge amounts of debt, and job loss, and…
Short version: unchecked capitalism.
But I was told that capitalism checks itself using something called “market forces”.
Turns out “market forces” was just the heavy metal poisoning talking, they were just hallucinating magical economics.
Lead in gasoline and household products really fucked with some generations, hard.
Yeah. Those problems totally didn’t exist before capitalism.
Not all at once, no. Fascism didn’t even exist until the 1920s.
Besides that it’s smooth sailing.
… and microplastics, and resource scarcity, and MRSA, and infrastructure collapse, and social media addiction, and …
“We didn’t start the fire…” But you guys threw a bunch of petroleum and coal and tar sands on it