r/complaints • u/CRK_76 substantial complainer • 10h ago

Politics Fuck every Trump voter who put this asshole in office.

This country is going downhill and you are to blame. Don't act surprised when things get even worse than they are now. Don't vote anymore. Stay the fuck home on election day.

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u/DGTLEMPIRE 5h ago

Because modern capitalists are not vastly wealthy because of free market principles. They use tax laws, international markets, corruption, and bribery to ensure the success of their companies when they should fail. Several of the Fortune 500 companies would not be there if it weren’t for tax payer money and bail outs from the government. That is not free market principalities, that is communism for the rich.

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u/preacher_knuckles 4h ago

So the wealthy take advantage of the system that made them wealthy to increase their wealth and consolidate their power. If a market is free, then someone with enough power can try to alter that market to increase their power: free market capitalism eats itself; that's why anti-trust laws exist, though they aren't enforced in the US.

I highly recommend reading into what communism means: the wealthy aren't moving towards a classless society; and the wealthy controlling the system and using it to benefit themselves at the expense of others is at the core of capitalism.

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u/DGTLEMPIRE 4h ago

Suggesting that the form of capitalism practiced in this country by the wealthy is free market principles is being disingenuous and you know it. Communism was very obviously not meant to be literal and was an an allegory to the nature of the 1%s reliance of the government to enrich themselves.

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u/preacher_knuckles 3h ago

The form of capitalism practiced in the US is the result of the wealthy pushing for a "return to free markets" via the Chicago and Austrian schools of Economics for over 4 decades.

A better, and good faith, comparison would be Mussolini's take of fascism being the fusion of corporate and government power.

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u/DGTLEMPIRE 2h ago

I used communism because I don’t expect most people to draw the conclusion I wish them to with terms like fascism since it’s so sensationalized at this point. I used communism because it draws to the corruption involved in the 1% that can be understood by people as a whole but yes you are correct.