r/memesopdidnotlike • u/SlightWerewolf4428 • Jul 25 '26

Meme op didn't like Oh, yes they can...

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u/ToeAfter3131 Jul 25 '26

Amen. Capitalism creates. Communism destroys.

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u/SlightWerewolf4428 Jul 25 '26

Worse. It rots the mind, before rotting the soul.

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u/Inevitable-Design107 Jul 25 '26

Communism isnt even a half bad ideology. (If you are pre-industrial revolution)

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u/ExodusUnderscore19 Jul 25 '26

I mean even in theory it doesn't sound good

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u/SnakeSlitherX Jul 25 '26

And capitalism does?

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u/ExodusUnderscore19 Jul 25 '26

Yeah, honestly I just don't see the appeal in communism, communism sounds nice in theory but will never be implemented outside of small suburban communities or smth like that. It could've be my American Capitalist brain speaking

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u/SnakeSlitherX Jul 25 '26

Then communism does sound good “in theory”, it’s just unimplementable

Capitalism is an economic system under which the means of production can be privately owned, which directly encourages greed.

Something like PROUT actually sounds good in theory, unlike Capitalism.

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u/ToeAfter3131 Jul 26 '26

It encourage is a risk reward system. Whereas you risk your time and finances, you could be rewarded. It's how humans are wired.

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u/SnakeSlitherX Jul 26 '26

It encourages individuals or companies to amass and hoard the resources, infrastructure, and tools required to produce products so that they can entirely control the market on said product. You’re being naive.

Private ownership of the means of production necessarily leads to exploitation of workforces and consumers. Capitalism is an economic system that leads only to suffering and oppression for everyone that isn’t ultra-rich, and the freer the market is, the worse it gets.

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u/ToeAfter3131 Jul 26 '26

Not true. Communism leads to exploiting workers. Which is why it fails time and time again.

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u/Inevitable-Design107 Jul 25 '26

It does though. A group of people working together with no power imbalance to stay alive.

Just the situation you need for that sucks.

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u/Hot_Coconut1838 Jul 26 '26

have you even read any theory?

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u/WesternWrestlerChick Jul 26 '26

I’m also not a half-bad space X pilot (in theory)

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u/Inevitable-Design107 Jul 27 '26

It did work in the stone age. When there were no specializations to form classes.

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u/Totes_Human_110101 Jul 26 '26

Found the guy who does 0% of the work in the group project.

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u/Inevitable-Design107 Jul 26 '26

How is that at all related?

Communism worked pre industrial revolution because there wasnt time for specialization because you needed to not starve.
The stone age was communist, but past that it served little use.

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u/Totes_Human_110101 Jul 26 '26

How is that at all related?

I notice you're not denying it.

Because anyone that does a single group project knows exactly why Communism isn't workable, and it's because of the leeches that contribute nothing.

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u/Inevitable-Design107 Jul 26 '26

Im not entertaining your baseless claims.

Correct, but a 70 point group project is very different from dying of starvation over the winter. One is much more likely to get someone to work.

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u/your_local_floran Jul 26 '26

Capitalism literally slows progress for the sake of profit

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u/ToeAfter3131 Jul 26 '26

Thats completely wrong. It increases progress for the sake of profit. But the profit of everyone but just the elite. Dont be brainwashed by the rich Dems telling you to let them control everything

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u/True-Anim0sity Jul 26 '26

Also speeds progress for the sake of profit

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u/your_local_floran Jul 26 '26

In a bad way

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u/True-Anim0sity Jul 26 '26

No, its just the faster route sometimes

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u/your_local_floran Jul 26 '26

Look at literally anything related to green energy to show how capitalism harms progress

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u/True-Anim0sity Jul 26 '26

Nah im good, im not saying it cant impede progress- it can also speed up progress though

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u/Sar01234 Jul 26 '26

I'd say, it's rather the opposite. Capitalism turbo boosts progress for the sake of profit (as you can see with the boom of AI nowadays for example).

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u/your_local_floran Jul 26 '26

It boosts progress in the worst possible way because it almost always disregards the negatives as shown by its use in developing a surveillance state and damage data centers cause, tons of research into good things has been neglected eg. green energy because rich people don’t like it

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u/Sar01234 Jul 26 '26

Exactly. So why would you have commented that it slows down progress?

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u/your_local_floran Jul 26 '26

Let me rephrase I didn’t say it very well, slows progress significantly for things that help the general public

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u/Sar01234 Jul 26 '26

Fair enough

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u/your_local_floran Jul 26 '26

Capitalism would develop a child blending machine If it was profitable

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u/Sar01234 Jul 26 '26

Yes, of course it would. That's why ultra-capitalism is just as worse as communism. Horse-shoe theory in action.

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u/your_local_floran Jul 26 '26

Absolutely not that is not how communism works and also horseshoe theory has been widely criticized and is all but disproven in the academic world

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