Capitalists and their shills
Also capitalists and their shills
Why do capitalists suddenly love vast centralized organizations which control huge amounts of resources across economic sectors?
Capitalists and their shills
Easton Morris
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Ian Baker
Because they hold no actual beliefs besides money being good.
Gabriel Gray
That always has made me cringe a little when libs talk about how "centralization / planned economies = bad" then we have to sit and listen how Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are literally going to change the world for the better through technology
Also, they've always loved this. I don't know how you can say it's sudden. They always have loved this. As long as you can distinguish between ideas and whether they dismantle or reinforce private property rights… well, you can usually figure where libs will be
Eli Smith
What's worse is when so-called "leftists" do this honestly.
Wyatt Bennett
"Centralization" is bad though. Just saying.
Logan Rodriguez
Why do you hate efficiency?
Michael Sanchez
Capitalism always has been pro-centralization.
Centralization =/= a powerful state.
You can in fact make a more laissez-faire economy or even society by eliminating local institutions that used to regulate laws more extensively. (See the abolition of guilds, the Civil Rights movement in America, Reconstruction.)
Centralization is in fact necessary to capitalism. The "communist" states of the 20th century in fact exhibited in the epitome of capitalist behavior. Stalin and Trotsky's brand of central planning essentially mimicked what capitalists did in Britain but at a far faster and vicious pace. You need to centralize the population to a few societies to create the proletariat who would work for said capitalists. You need centralize the state to remove the old regulations that benefited the craft guilds, small farmers, and even the older pre-capitalist elites.
I mean, MARX of all people wrote about this. (And, he even complimented the process.) Take your ideology glasses off, stop eating from the trashcan, and realize that capitalism is a system/class, NOT an idea/ideology that people voluntarily believe in. The modern usage of the word "capitalism" is just trash from the garbage can, and OP is eating it, ironically like a pig. Think materialistically, about economic conditions and classes, not about ideas competing with each other.
Daily reminder that it was the Federalists who were in league with those with the big money and economic clout, while the anti-Federalists/Democratic-Republicans were mostly small farmers who had extended their hands towards the nascent working-class many times.
Jose Hall
Completely planned economies have been proven to be rather inefficient, considering the Soviet Union's frequent misallocation of resources. (Do note that laissez-faire economies also suffer from that same effect. Nations require varying degrees of regulation and control by the government.)
Even besides that, isn't the single-minded attention towards efficiency EXACTLY the force behind capitalism, especially of the Taylorist sort that treated workers are little more than cogs in a machine. Capitalism is quite efficient. Just at reaping profits for the capitalist class. This especially true for neoliberal, globalist capitalism, which gives the capitalist class various tools, both social and economic, to essentially crush and even ultimately destroy the working-class, who had a period of relative economic prosperity and empowerment from the mid 20th century to the 80s.
Brayden Gonzalez
It took America 150 years to develop the wealth that Russia did in 50.
Jackson James
Stop being a brainlet.