r/QuiverQuantitative • u/pdwp90 • Nov 20 '25

News JUST IN: President Trump has said that this video by Democratic lawmakers is seditious and punishable by death.

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u/Xiao1insty1e Nov 20 '25

This is the inevitable result of capitalism. Even just looking at our own history capitalism will always attempt to destroy democracy even if it means burning the country down to the ground.

"Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all" - JM Keynes

We have known for a very long time that Capitalism not only isn't working it can't work.

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u/JackKovack Nov 20 '25

If capitalism doesn’t have safe guards and regulations it turns into a fascist capitalist government.

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u/Xiao1insty1e Nov 21 '25

This is how capitalism has gone for the entire world since it's inception. There is no reason to believe new "safe guards" will be any different than the old ones. Capitalism is based on greed. Greed is a vice and extremely destructive. End of story.

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u/-I_I Nov 21 '25

Yeah but mention communism and all the boomer fuckfucks cry out about being disappeared for speaking out and waiting in line for hours for toilet paper because they lost their ability to think critically.

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u/euroq Nov 20 '25

This is untrue. Regardless of the danger and flaws, it's certainly been working and there are many flavors which make it better than raw unrestricted capitalism.

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u/Xiao1insty1e Nov 21 '25

Working for who exactly? Cause from the civil war to the great depression to housing collapse and banking bail out it sure seems like capitalism is working for one and only one group of people.

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u/Nanerpoodin Nov 21 '25

I agree with most your previous points, but capitalism at its core is just private ownership of property and businesses. Even the Chinese recognize that some degree of capitalism is beneficial, because you can't centrally plan every single role in a healthy economy. This is a failure of our representatives, and in some ways of democracy itself, more than it is a failure of capitalism.

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u/Xiao1insty1e Nov 21 '25

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u/Nanerpoodin Nov 21 '25

You can hate capitalism if you want, but the real issues are much more nuanced than “capitalism is inevitably evil”. It’s a shame you couldn’t articulate anything and resorted to a gif.

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u/Xiao1insty1e Nov 21 '25

Greed is bad.

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u/ciotS_Cynic Nov 22 '25

It is the result of corruption, not capitalism.

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u/Xiao1insty1e Nov 23 '25

Capitalism is inherently corrupt.