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Comment by AndrewAndrewsen | Hacker News Reader

Capitalism implodes on itself, just as predicted..

This isn't capitalism, it's pure corruption.

thats how capitalism implodes... its lives and breathes might makes right and the way to be mightier is to eat competitors and when you run out of competitors you use your might to change the rules. Corruption.

if everything is capitalism, then nothing is capitalism

"But one should not succumb to the illusion that with an analysis of the fundamentals of the capitalist mode of production that everything decisive has already been said about capitalist societies"

Michael Heinrich, Introduction to the three volumes of Capital

Very much a "true communism has never been tried" way of thinking.

Capitalism prescribes a limited role of government, to protect the rights of private citizens and maintain an orderly environment that facilitates proper functioning of markets.

This isn’t capitalism, it’s pure unfettered and uncontrolled greed.

"that wasn't real capitalism" hmm, where have I heard that before?

People have announced the implosion of capitalism many times and each time living standards have improved. In a purely correlationary sense, it seems like civilization progresses one capitalistic implosion at a time.

So you erode democracy, and now blame capitalism?

Hi, Europe chiming in here. We still have proper democracies combined with capitalism, and life is great here.

But hey, if you don't like capitalism, go to some country where they don't have it, like North Korea or Cuba.

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