Capitalist: No no, what you really hate is socialism.
Citizen: Why do I hate socialism?
Capitalist: Because socialism causes [lists problems created by capitalism].
Citizen: Wow, I sure do hate socialism.
But also,
Citizen 2: [lists actual socialist policies while avoiding certain key words]
Capitalists: I can get behind that.
Capitalism is the only economic model that consistently works.
Every time socialism/communism fails everyone is making excuses why but capitalism keeps moving along making people’s lives better.
Capitalism is the only economic model that consistently works.
Works for who though?
Common people.
That’s the reason why in the '50’s people could work at a gas station and still afford a house and family.
That was a “common” experience of a small percentage of people. The rest of the world was heavily exploited.
Things were pretty good here in the states.
Not if you weren’t white.
you claims it to be only model that works, yet it is already collapsing under its own weight in less time than many big empires in history has lasted.
When do you expect US to have a proletarlian revolution?
Right after China does.
Capitalism isn’t good, it’s just the least worst.
Almost nobody hates capitalism. Even most of those who say they do actually like it.
Nah
You’re a closeted capitalist. You can come out, it’s safe.
Lmao, no, I’m a socialist. How much capital do you own? How many factories are in your name?
The root cause is greed, capitalism is like one tentacle from the greedtopus
communism is another tentacle of the same monster
I feel like it"s the opposite - people blame economic system for their problems because they look for an easy simple answer where they are justified of not doing anything.
People overly hate capitalism. Almost no person in the entire world is for completely free market capitalism.
Capitalism works to increase efficiency and distribute resources effectively.
The issue is politics. Politics is broken not capitalism.