The Anti-Capitalism Thread

[Cherry Eyed Hamster]

Rampant consumerism, corporations doing jack shit to pay employees a living wage whilst the cost of living continues to skyrocket, venture capitalists buying up houses and renting them all out for ludicrous prices, the dismantling of the middle class so that the uber-rich can make a few extra billion a year…what’re your reasons for disliking capitalism?

As for me? I’m sick at the thought of me slaving my ass off at a job that pays okay, and yet I will most likely never be able to own a home. I am saddled with debt I was forced to take on to get out of my bumfuck hometown whose economy was nothing more than burger-flipping and meth. I have been making payments regularly on this 50k debt, and yet I still have to shill out hundreds of dollars a month for car payments, shitty health insurance that doesn’t even cover dental, groceries that continue to inflate in price, rent that eats up half my paycheck, internet, amenities, taxes that my libshit city squanders on to get more PoC’s government gibs, garbage…it adds up and up and up and I feel like I’m completely suffocating despite making more than my dad did with inflation adjusted when he was my age and he was able to afford a fucking starter house and a car without being in debt, whilst I’m in a 500 square-foot one bedroom apartment in a shit part of town.

My friends, some who are making more than me, are struggling and I’m fucking sick of it being normalized amongst my generation. I want a break. I wouldn’t be bitching if I felt like I was getting some benefits out of being a cog in the capitalist machine, but I get absolutely nothing except a crappy 401k plan.

Yes, I’m bitter, I’m MATI, I’m sick of this shit economy that we’ve been wrestling with since 2008 being treated as “normal”. I just want a small house that I can live in peacefully with my cat. We’re being sold a scam.

 

[Figger Nucker]

Why does every poor retard scream, "I was forced to take on this debt!"
You CHOSE to take a loan to leave by your own admission and now it's capitalism's fault you're a burnout? You live in a shit place by your own doing and it's no one else's job but yours to fix.

 

[Whatevermancer]

shit economy

The economy is doing just fine, what are you talking about?
As someone once said "good economy doesn't mean anything to me, but bad economy means I'm losing my job".

 

[Cherry Eyed Hamster]

Why does every poor retard scream, "I was forced to take on this debt!"
You CHOSE to take a loan to leave by your own admission and now it's capitalism's fault you're a burnout? You live in a shit place by your own doing and it's no one else's job but yours to fix.

Alright, fair, I could have worded it better instead of saying “forced” but I would have had no other option to get out of my town into a good job unless I went to school. I didn’t want to do trades since I’ve had many family members do that kind of work and it destroyed their bodies by the time they were 45.

I live in a shit place because it’s what I can afford without having 60% of my paycheck eaten up by rent. I’m not on government handouts, I don’t mooch off the system, I bust my ass at work and yet I’m struggling to get by. I’m responsible with my finances. I pay my debts. I’m really tired of hearing from old boomers rant about how irresponsible people like me are because of our financial situations.

 

[UncleFezziesPantsPuppet]

 

[rrtyui]

The world is not capitalist. The government rapes 40% of everything you make at worst, they print and dump fake money into massive corporations to prevent them from crashing (a natural part of capitalism) and give out free housing and food to illegals who don't work. I'm assuming you live in the US.

 

[vomitusdeux]

This isn't capitalism, it's corporatism.

 

[Whatevermancer]

The world is not capitalist. The government rapes 40% of everything you make at worst, they print and dump fake money into massive corporations to prevent them from crashing (a natural part of capitalism) and give out free housing and food to illegals who don't work. I'm assuming you live in the US.

This isn't capitalism, it's corporatism.

Real capitalism has never been tried...

 

[Figger Nucker]

Alright, fair, I could have worded it better instead of saying “forced” but I would have had no other option to get out of my town into a good job unless I went to school. I didn’t want to do trades since I’ve had many family members do that kind of work and it destroyed their bodies by the time they were 45.

I live in a shit place because it’s what I can afford without having 60% of my paycheck eaten up by rent. I’m not on government handouts, I don’t mooch off the system, I bust my ass at work and yet I’m struggling to get by. I’m responsible with my finances. I pay my debts. I’m really tired of hearing from old boomers rant about how irresponsible people like me are because of our financial situations.

So let me get this straight, you're bitching about the system despite almost all your problems being self-inflicted. Communists are always nigger brained retards.

 

[Gog & Magog]

This isn't capitalism, it's corporatism.

Corporatism is already taken. https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism
What you are thinking of is government picking economic winners and losers in a unfair and corrupt fashion. Capitalism as we understand it cannot thrive as well as it could when underneath a manipulated market controlled by corrupt politicians.

 

[Cherry Eyed Hamster]

So let me get this straight, you're bitching about the system despite almost all your problems being self-inflicted. Communists are always nigger brained retards.

I’m not a communist, dipshit. I’m not even left-wing. I’ve already told you why I did what I did. I’m tired of critics of capitalism being associated with a fringe political ideology.

And also on that note, I’m tired of people who are essentially capitalism’s lapdog railing against capitalism, such as trannies. I would even argue that they exist because of capitalism. Megacorps love these faggots and troons absolutely lap it up at the expense of taxpayers, whilst the pharmaceutical industry is earning $$$ hand over fist because these people will be reliant on the system for the rest of their lives.

 

[Breadbassket]

Corporatism is already taken. https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism
What you are thinking of is government picking economic winners and losers in a unfair and corrupt fashion. Capitalism as we understand it cannot thrive as well as it could when underneath a manipulated market controlled by corrupt politicians.

Would Cronyism be a more suitable term?

 

[rrtyui]

Real capitalism has never been tried...

No. Liberalization of markets has almost always been better for an economy and the wellbeing of a nation than the alternative.

 

[Irregardless]

I understand and emphasize with your frustration. While you did sort of fuck yourself here, it is pretty fucked to be in this type of situation to be in, especially as someone who isn't a braindead commie. Things are shit and the only people getting help are those who either don't deserve it or who were completely fucked and didn't give a shit from the start. I see your issue being similar to the "Born in the wrong generation" meme, but living the sadly reality where yea, if you had been born even 10 years earlier you'd probably being doing just fine and have everything you want, but have just become so rapidly fucked up, the world you were promised and believed in was stolen.

The issue with capitalism today is that communists are in charge of it. The people in power and heads of the industry climbed the ladder, and as soon as they got to the top decided "People shouldn't be aloud to climb ladders". It's fucked and since commies love to simp for billionaires and the government I don't know how we expect things to change.

 

[WE'RE ALL GONNA]

Capitalism is like evolution, you can blame it for making niggers dumb but it's the foundation for what makes the world go round. Blaming it is like blaming how you owning property is theft for the guy next door who gets paid to do absolutely nothing.

If health care is expensive then the fault is probably most of your country is busy being fat or killing each other.
50k in debt, that was your decision. Nobody was holding a gun against you.
It's capitalism for you and me while the elite get bailouts like in 2008 when they cause an entire generation's finance to flatline.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Real capitalism has never been tried...

It has been tried, and the end result is the society of today. Capitalism is about winning, and once the capitalist class wins hard enough, they have zero reason not to establish themselves as the new aristocracy, take over the government, and turn it into cronyism.

Just read Doctrine of Fascism or the transcripts of some of Mussolini's speeches. He lays out a wonderful description of why capitalism was a great system in the 19th century in terms of developing and improving countries but also described what that system logically turned into thanks to said capitalists being too successful.

It's sad how few people truly understand capitalism and its relation to why things are shit. It's probably the legacy of Marxist brainrot combined with conservatives being afraid of anything that looks fascist due to 75 years of communist propaganda and the actions of glow in the dark Nazis from George Lincoln Rockwell onwards. That's why you get dumb neocons and libertarians saying "hurr durr just lower taxes and get da small gubmint and REAL capitalism will come back" and dumb liberals and communists who think raising taxes on billionaires will create the communist revolution. The term "corporatism" gets thrown around a lot, but corporatism and class collaborationism are really the only ways to have capitalism in this world. Unsurprisingly, this is similar to the system that predominated in the West in the years 1946-1973 and created unprecedented prosperity, many of whom were business owners and entrepreneurs. We can thank people like Ronald Reagan for destroying it.

 

[Dufe]

Teacher in shcool said capitalism is bad

 

[Insuficiencia renal]

Capitalism doesn't exist. Every corporation is ideologically motivated, only poors and middle class retards obsess over mere wealth accumulation.

 

[Skitarii]

This isn't capitalism, it's corporatism.

No it's not, faggot. Corporations would not be able to get away with 90% of the shit they do in a corporatist economy. Trust-busting and negotiating with unions is corporatist. The structuring of industrial sectors around labor guilds is corporatist. Redirecting production to favor the needs to the citizenry over the demands of international finance is corporatist.

Importing spic/pajeet temporary workers en-masse to keep up with global production demands is not corporatist. DEI is not corporatist. Billionnaires controlling 90% of direct negotiating power with the government is not corporatist.

Corporatism is not to blame for your landlord hiking rent prices. The modern global economy is sliding closer and closer to neo-feudalism.

 

[waffle]

I’m not a communist, dipshit. I’m not even left-wing. I’ve already told you why I did what I did. I’m tired of critics of capitalism being associated with a fringe political ideology.

And also on that note, I’m tired of people who are essentially capitalism’s lapdog railing against capitalism, such as trannies. I would even argue that they exist because of capitalism. Megacorps love these faggots and troons absolutely lap it up at the expense of taxpayers, whilst the pharmaceutical industry is earning $$$ hand over fist because these people will be reliant on the system for the rest of their lives.

Buddy, it sounds like you have the forbidden ideology where we do free enterprise but for the benefit of actual human beings without all the insane financialism! Call it whatever you want: populism, third position, I prefer Deer Sneeder's coining of "Social Nationalism" - if you espouse it in any serious manor you will be maligned by every institution that exists. Because it's what basically every normal person wants, but it would destroy the current ruling class.