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      Capitalism is a belief system where greed is encouraged as a central virtue.

      If it doesn’t include copious amounts of profiteering, it’s just sparkling market economies.

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        Greed is an individual characteristic - it has nothing to do with capitalism, which is a global system of ravenous and genocidal exploitation which would function in the exact way it does even if it’s main beneficiaries weren’t “greedy” at all.

        Greed is how liberals protect capitalism by pretending it’s individual behavior that is the cause of our problems and not the global system of ravenous and genocidal exploitation that it actually is.

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            Everybody wants to talk hysterically about the far-right - but people forget that there’s a bog-standard, garden-variety right, too.

            You know… the people that pretend they want change as long as the change doesn’t actually change anything?

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      Capitalism without meaningful regulation is just crapitalism and leads to enshittification. Regulatory capture is a real bitch.

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          Because too many morons like you do not understand they’re the same, so immediately do not think of shitty economic systems when they hear “greed”, and do not think “greed” when they hear capitalism.

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            Clyde, read this part real careful like, okay?

            Greed is an individual characteristic - it has nothing to do with capitalism, which is a global system of ravenous and genocidal exploitation which would function in the exact way it does even if it’s main beneficiaries weren’t “greedy” in any way whatsoever.

            Perhaps it’s best to not go around calling people online “moron” when it’s perfectly clear that you don’t have a damn clue what it is you are talking about.

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              bahahahahaaaaaaahaha keep drinking the koolaid, little one. It really makes you appear intelligent…

              No, they’re not LITERALLY the same thing, but if you cannot understand how capitalism is quite literally institutionalized greed, you are simply stupid. Pure and simple.

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                Clyde, which part of…

                read this part real careful like, okay?

                …didn’t you comprehend the first time around?

                Your terminal mental incompetence notwithstanding, here is the important bit again.

                Greed is an individual characteristic - it has nothing to do with capitalism, which is a global system of ravenous and genocidal exploitation which would function in the exact way it does even if it’s main beneficiaries weren’t “greedy” in any way whatsoever.

                If you cannot understand how liberals hide the reality of a global system of ravenous and genocidal exploitation behind the (supposed) individualized “greed” of a (supposed) “few bad actors” it’s best you don’t go around feigning expertise on this stuff, okay?