How can you preach the virtues of capitalism to people who don’t have any capital? It takes capital to be a capitalist. I totally understand why so many young people are saying “What the hell has global capitalism ever done for me?”

Oct 18, 2020 · 3:56 AM UTC

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Marianne would you consider endorsing Lisa Savage for US Senate in Maine? She's running as a Green on a progressive platform and thanks to ranked-choice voting she won't spoil the election for Susan Collins
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That’s a complicated race and it needs to be left in the hands of Mainers.
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“Virtues of capitalism” Those words don’t go together, sorry. At best I could see trying a utilitarian explanation of capitalism, but as we’re currently seeing, that’s wrong too. Capitalism is a short term system for maximizing profits in the short term before society collapses
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Young people have human capital, older people have a disproportionate amount of capital goods, that’s how accumulation works
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There are no "virtues" of capitalism. It is a rebranding of feudalism, designed to maintain the lord/peasant power structure in an industrialized society. Every hard-fought gain for working class peoples has been from anti-capitalist in nature.
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Just wait till they experience global socialism and start saying “why is the government forcing me to work 60 hrs/wk at the job they chose for me? why didn’t I have a choice?” or “why is there never any food in the grocery store?” or “why can’t I practice my religion?”
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Because it's not about what capitalism can do for you. It's what you can do for capitalism 😋
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now do incels
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