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- Humanity is such a beautiful thing.utopian
- Nope. Blatantly untrue.Morning_star
- How is this not true? Serious question********
- africa has received billions of aid (ie. free food, aka socialism) for last 50 years and they still can't feed themselves.hotroddy
- and capitalism is the incentive for farmers to product for people who don't produce food.hotroddy
- there's a reason why farmers have highest suicide rates. having a blue hair and a nose ring and bitching about sexual identity is a luxury farmers don't havehotroddy
- Selling food isn't capitalism. Owning someone else's farm, and so the profit of that sold food, is capitalism.i_monk
- Subsidies in the developed world have kept African farmers for competing on the world market, while simultaneously farmland there is dedicated to exporti_monk
- instead of the domestic market.i_monk
- hotdoddy doesnt care if dictators throw humans out of helicopters but is bitching about people who are sensitve about sexual id.neverscared
- it's a bit more complex than the image or the comments, but ok.maikel
- So... Morningstar is Hotroddy.
Case closed...hydro74 - like twin brothers....neverscared
- Hey so nobody has explained how the sentences in the image are untrue********
- @nb, ‘Under capitalism’ food is produced to meet demand. The market sets the price and profit or loss is the result.
‘When it’s not profitable to feed...Morning_star - ... people’ is an absurd statement. It assumes that the market is not free. If the market is not free, by definition, it isn’t capitalism.
‘Even when labour...Morning_star - ... has conquered scarcity’ is an equally absurd statement. Scarcity is a feature of resource supply and controlled by price. Labour cannot control scarcity. ...Morning_star
- ... Controlling resource is one way of using scarcity but in a free market this is controlled by demand. If the price is too high we are free to find another...Morning_star
- ... supplier.
What tarnishes capitalism is the same thing that tarnishes communism. The corruption that manifests due to capitalism, or communism for that...Morning_star - ... matter, is entirely human and usually in the form of greed.Morning_star
- Oh ok so we don’t live under capitalism and no one ever has. Got it.********
- No, you haven't 'got it'. At what point did i say we don't live in societies that use free market capitalist systems?Morning_star
- A few notes back, “If the market is not free, by definition, it isn’t capitalism.”********
- 'If'... and in the previous sentence it clarifies the 'assumption' of the meme. The meme states that the market isn't free, not me.Morning_star