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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I understand this post was meant to be humorous and that we all need a little humor every now and them, but the leftwing-led scare against capitalism is equally ridiculous to the rightwing scare that communism is taking over in America and that anyone who doesn't immediately side with the conservatives by extension must be communist sympathizers. Communism is not taking over in the US, and capitalism is not the evil it's made out to be as the perceived source of all of the ills in society. I regard both of those viewpoints as being overly paranoid delusional albeit extremely divisive in a time when we need unity more now than ever.
That all said, again, I can certainly find some humor in that meme above, in the sense that it's general premise is somewhat absurd, which in turn makes it humorous.
SpikeTalon
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Mar 27, 2024
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The left wing doesn't rail against capitalism itself, but rather the excesses of capitalism.
I've said several time on this site that Karl Marx was actually (mostly) correct in his descriptions of the excesses/problems of capitalism, but his proposed solution could never work. If you have a revolution and a change of leadership, you still haven't change the cultural or cultural expectations of the people, and history has shown us that every attempt to implement his proposed solution has led to a brutal dictatorship, or a totalitarian government, as well as a failed economic system.
Meanwhile, the countries of Northern Europe have taken a more gradual approach to reign in the excesses of capitalism, and let workers enjoy more of the fruits of their own labors. In those countries health care is now a right, college education is free, and the people living there are rated as the happiest people on earth. They made gradual changers to their culture and cultural expectations and it has worked very well.
After explaining this one time, somewhere on the internet, I once got a response, "happiness is poor way to measure success". I have since wondered, "if success can't be measured in happiness, then what is the point of achieving any kind of 'success'?"
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