I like it better when there was talk of a railroad workers strike and Buffet shut the fuck up because he knew where his moneu comes from and what that would do to this fake image he's fostered. Who's gotta strike to make him shut up this time?
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Funny cause Henry George keeps hitting the nail on the head from over a century ago.
Textbooks don't do stuff other than be expensive for no damn reason.
You think economics picture books would be a better idea?
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What exactly did Marx predict that is true today? Was it something like the rise of subscription services or more like general increasing inequality under capitalism?
We are truly on the cusp of socialist revolution just like Marx said. If we extrapolate the lemmygrad instance to the rest of the world, that means it's only a couple years max until we behead those pesky billionaires starting with wrren bffet. It's simple math if you read this philosophers textbook " Das Kapital."
Not really sure what the point of your comment is, it comes off as anti-Marx but doesn't really address any of the observations Marx made. It's like a soyjack in comment form.
OK I'll be serious for a second. The comment was ant-Marx. I think that the idea that capitalism would inevitably lead to a socialist revolution is not a real thing. I'm looking at all the capitalist western countries and see that there is no real need or even desire for people to overhaul the whole financial and governmental systems. Although socialists are becoming more prominent over the years especially on the internet, I believe that this is only relegated to the internet. The only thing close to socialism that we have is Bernie Sanders and he's not really a powerful politician so others would probably not emulate him in the future.
You can think that this is a cope or a soyjack-like post all you want, but at least I live in the real world where we're not waiting for a fantasy revolution that would make us work in socialist utopias where everyone is a farmer in a small garden or a hair stylist or whatever the fuck people thing it's gonna be like. I know the issues that would plague something like socialism or communism and know that capitalism solves all the problems there. Just look at the USSR in their last years and how much the US was outpacing them in terms of technology and production. The quality of life in capitalist countries was and still is leagues above any socialist or communist countries.
I can understand when people criticize the current system we have since it's 100% not perfect. But to just call for a socialist revolution instead of better methods of regulation and closing loops as we discover them is just stupid.
And lastly, the post is pretty stupid on another level since the "woes of capitalism" are there because of events that mess up global trade like the pandemic or the current Houthi attacks on the red sea, when you know for a fact that any country that's not extremely closed off and protectionist would be just as impacted.