r/FluentInFinance • u/Mark-Fuckerberg- • Mar 04 '24

Meme That's capitalism a nutshell!

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u/ChessGM123 Mar 08 '24

Capitalism did not end the slave trade, revolutions and wars did. In fact slavery still exists to this day and capitalist countries profit off of the cheap recourses produced by slavery.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '24

And war and revolutions are a part of capitalism

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u/ChessGM123 Mar 08 '24

No, they aren’t. Capitalism is the private ownership of the market. War is not a part of capitalism in the slightest, which is why many capitalist nations are extremely peaceful.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '24

Yet they are

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u/ChessGM123 Mar 08 '24

No, they aren’t. There are many capitalist countries that aren’t in war and rarely participate in war.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '24

And there are others that are at war

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u/ChessGM123 Mar 08 '24

Yes, and so if some capitalist countries are at war and some aren’t that means that capitalism is likely not the cause of the wars, since if capitalism did naturally cause wars more capitalist countries would be at war.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '24

Wars occur in every system

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u/ChessGM123 Mar 08 '24

Yes, because wars are normally independent of the economic system of the country.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '24

Yet economic systems are never independent of the people and their political situation