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Reasons Why Capitalism is Awful

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Neodoxy Posted: Wed, Nov 21 2012 5:31 PM

1. People are starving

2. Some people are rich

3. ???

4. Racism

5. Sexism

6. Because Capitalism

7. There's corruption

8. Some people have bad work condition

9. Education, there's not enough of it

10. Recessions, all of them.

11. It's not as good as socialism

12. Obesity

13. Starvation

14. The industrial revolution was a bad time

15. Sickness

16. Think of the children!

17. Chomsky agrees and is smarter than you are

18. We are the 99 percent

19. Capitalists hate your freedom

"The solution", I hear you cry? Isn't it obvious?

 

What are the reasons you guys hate capitalism?

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gotlucky replied on Wed, Nov 21 2012 5:33 PM

20. Too much peace

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21. Leads to crises

22. Leads to centralization

23. Has internal contradictions

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Wheylous replied on Wed, Nov 21 2012 5:36 PM

24. Everyone is selfish

25. The poor will die

26. No labor laws means that we will see children working in 19th century coal mines

27. Rich get richer and the poor die

28. What if machines became so good that laborers were not needed any more and no one had jobs?

29. People aren't paid according to their labor and need

30. Capitalists hate poor people

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Zlatko replied on Wed, Nov 21 2012 6:24 PM

 

31. Capitalists can force you to work for below sustenance wages

32. Capitalists can charge whatever they want for their products

33. Suicide machines will be advertised to kids on TV

34. Rich people will buy up all the goods just to fuck with us

 

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Neodoxy replied on Wed, Nov 21 2012 8:51 PM

Good job comrades! These are all great reasons to hate capitalism

35. No roads

36. I just saw skyfall. If there was no money the bad guy couldn't have hired his henchmen and it would have been way easier for 007 to win.

37. Skyfall could have been a better movie

38. Smoking

39. In the 1800's women had to work in factories to support their families

40. Today women are discriminated against so they can't work to support their families

41. The free market produced /b/

42. Top 40's radio

43. Global warming

44. Unemployment

45. Lemons (yes, this is an actual argument)

46. Guns

47. Monopoly

48. Banks

Keep up the good fight comrades, we will win the day yet.

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Wheylous replied on Wed, Nov 21 2012 8:56 PM

(Note: Lemons could mean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_(automobile) - cars defective at sale time)

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49) It makes the 99% poor

50) It makes 99% buy iPads

51) It doesn't let black people buy houses

52) It tricks black people into buying houses

53) Justin Bieber

54) Lady Gaga

55) One Direction

56) Rihanna

 

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57) Poor people can't afford anything

58) Wal-Mart

 

To paraphrase Marc Faber: We're all doomed, but that doesn't mean that we can't make money in the process.
Rabbi Lapin: "Let's make bricks!"
Stephan Kinsella: "Say you and I both want to make a German chocolate cake."

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59) Poor people uneducated

60) Mass-produces books

 

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Rabbi Lapin: "Let's make bricks!"
Stephan Kinsella: "Say you and I both want to make a German chocolate cake."

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61) Minority groups get to do whatever the hell they want like move next door and eat in the same places as you.

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62) It pays black people the lowest amount possible, even below amount necessary to be alive.

63) LeBron James, Tiger Woods, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, Ryan Howard, Carl Crawford, Darnell Docket

64) Denzel Washington, Will Smith, Eddir Murphy, Tyler Perry

65) Oprah

 

To paraphrase Marc Faber: We're all doomed, but that doesn't mean that we can't make money in the process.
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66) Whitey doesn't care about poor African children

67) Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

68) No one is charitable

69) Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

70) No cure for diseases

71) Bill and Melinda Gates Founation

72) Greed

73) Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

74) Windows Vista

75) Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

76) Micro$oft

77) Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

78) MS FrontPage

79) Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

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72 things were mentioned before greed?! Shame on you all, comrades!

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80. The word sounds evil.

81. Karl marx is cool

82. It just makes sense

83. Monopoly

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gotlucky replied on Wed, Nov 21 2012 9:54 PM

84. Capital

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idol replied on Wed, Nov 21 2012 10:14 PM

85. Pure profit

86. Greed before need

87. Workers are exploited

88. Money is the root of all evil

89. Lighthouse shortage

90. Profit before people

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91)  i HATE that i just had to spend 3 Fing hours flipping through at least 10,000 different kind of driving loafers.  i mean my god!  why do people need all these options?

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Neodoxy replied on Wed, Nov 21 2012 11:08 PM

My favorites so far:

25. The poor will die

30. Capitalists hate poor people

33. Suicide machines will be advertised to kids on TV

57) Poor people can't afford anything

59) Poor people uneducated

82. It just makes sense

89. Lighthouse shortage

I think that we've forgotten a very important one:

92. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

 

93. Jesus was a socialist

94. It doesn't align with the teachings of Yen Buddhism

95. Hitler was a capitalist

96. Mises and Hayek were nobility

97. NASA is government and makes everything

98. The Spanish Revolution proves that socialism works

99. Over production

100. You wanna know what my first ever ever encounter with a capitalist was?

Tell me that having dealing with this asshole to get to the next stage wouldn't make you want to overthrow the capitalist system from a very young age!

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eliotn replied on Wed, Nov 21 2012 11:29 PM

101. The word is insulting.

 

 

Schools are labour camps.

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102 dalmations....Disney and their greed ruining a perfectly good movie by making another.

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Neodoxy replied on Wed, Nov 21 2012 11:44 PM

On that note don't forget

103. Starwars Episode 7

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Clayton replied on Wed, Nov 21 2012 11:59 PM

Counting backwards to avoid collisions...

0) Artists starve and die because rich people never buy art (and poor people can't)

-1) No art because rich people buy up all the art and hide it away in private stashes from the unwashed masses (RATM lyrics?)

-2) No charity because the rich are too greedy to give and the poor are too poor to give

-3) No decency because greed

-4) Human life will cease after the last contract killer executes his contract to kill the second-to-last contract killer

-5) Landfill: Earth

-6) All birds die in globe-spanning oilslicks

-7) Hurricanes

-8) No more icebergs and no more polar bears

-9) Goldman Sachs

-10) The Federal Reserve

-11) The earth is an uninhabitable wasteland after the last tree is chopped down by the last tree-corporation and all arable land is turned into a dustbowl

-12) No parks because the rich will buy up all the pristine wilderness

-13) No roads. People will be reduced to pushing square-wheeled wagons across giant mudpits where once there were the greatest monuments to human achievement: freeways

-14) The smog blots out the Sun and the rich live in zeppelin-supported floating villas in the sky above a planet that looks from space roughly like the planet Venus

-15) No jobs because the rich will refuse to pay people to work

-16) Oil

-17) People have to work 23 hours per day just to feed themselves, let alone their children

-18) Drugs

-19) Guns

-20) Prostitution

-21) Alcohol

-22) Gambling

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Even though I think IQ is complete BS, I'm inclined to say that mine lowered a notch after reading this thread.

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Oh, and .103 (or whatever) that George Lucas is allowing a new series of Star Wars films to come out.

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Neodoxy replied on Thu, Nov 22 2012 12:18 AM

"Even though I think IQ is complete BS, I'm inclined to say that mine lowered a notch after reading this thread."

Exactly the sort of thing an evil capitalist would say. I bet that you don't even support peace and freedom.

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Yeah, because it's called the Peace and Freedom Party, that must mean it's all about nothing but peace and freedom, right?

Just like the Austrian School must be a culinary place where you learn how to make Wiener Schnitzel!

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Neodoxy replied on Thu, Nov 22 2012 12:25 AM

Exactly. Like how socialists care about society and capitalists are only concerned with capital.

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Okay, I'll become a socialist, under one condition - I must have the beard. You hear me? MUST.

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Can't leave out good 'ol Zizzy.

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Clayton replied on Thu, Nov 22 2012 12:33 AM

Related to Castro???

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Neodoxy replied on Thu, Nov 22 2012 12:33 AM

Alright, I think I found a place that you can buy a beard

Great! Another convert to the socialist future!

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@ Clayton

I am so glad that I am not the only one who thinks that young Castro looks like Liam.

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Clayton replied on Thu, Nov 22 2012 12:41 AM

@SkepticalMetal: I have a whole conspiracy theory about how certain powerful Elites "plant" their (illegitimate?) children into "normal" homes to be raised away from the spotlight where they can be safer and more useful. I believe it has its roots in this.

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Uh huh.

 

Yes well why is it that Marxists have their own film theory? How is that even fair?

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Clayton replied on Thu, Nov 22 2012 12:50 AM

Kate Middleton, for example. I doubt very much that she's actually a commoner. Either one of her parents or she herself could be "crypto-nobility".

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What about Tom Cruise Ryan?

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Blargg replied on Thu, Nov 22 2012 12:56 AM

104. It causes awful greedy people's selfish focus on profits to benefit others more than selfless people who only think about others!

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Clayton replied on Thu, Nov 22 2012 12:59 AM

@Blargg: It's the thought that counts. Actually improving things means nothing if you didn't mean to improve things.

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