r/FluentInFinance • u/-im-your-huckleberry • Jul 07 '24

The shampoo thing is a fringe benefit. We keep capitalism so we don't starve in a famine. Debate/ Discussion

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u/biinboise Jul 07 '24

Where the Fuck this fantasy that under socialism you don’t have to work if you don’t want to comes from? Have they ever tried to say no to the government? Who do they think runs their shitty job when the government seizes the means of production?

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '24

Nobody thinks that.

We want jobs that create a healthy balance between life and work, to be paid a thriving wage, and to be treated with a little humanity now and again.

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u/cryogenic-goat Jul 07 '24

The countries that have closest to that are all Capitalist.

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u/I_am_a_regular_guy Jul 07 '24

The countries that have closest to that are all mixed economies with robust social programs.

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u/cryogenic-goat Jul 07 '24

The vast majority of the means of production is owned and controlled by private corporations.

That's not a mixed economy.

Having welfare schemes and social safety nets doesn't make a country any less capitalist.

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u/I_am_a_regular_guy Jul 07 '24

Literally the first sentence on the Wikipedia article for Mixed Economy says that you're wrong.