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[–] Transcendant@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (38 children)

I'm lower-left quadrant but always cop a fair amount of shit from others on 'the left' (nebulous term though it is) for my feelings on capitalism. The people I speak to have never seen anything but corruption, and have a combo of zero faith and utter hatred for it.

My personal feelings are that with strong, enforced checks & balances, capitalism can be combined with socialist policies to create a fantastic standard of living (see Norway), without it becoming cancerous. Unfortunately most of our western political systems (and capitalism is strongly influenced by political systems) seem to be run on a wink and a nudge, an assumed sense of 'fair play' which we all know has been shown to be worthless in recent years.

Strong unions; an educated populace; politicians who actually give a shit; this is what we need. But, capitalism has an absolute stranglehold on the populace of most western countries via print / tv media. The foxes are in charge of the henhouse and the hens are getting shit on.

[–] dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You're getting shit from leftists because you're doing the "socialism is when the government does stuff" just from the other side.

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[–] sounddrill@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 18 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Keyword being uncorrupt.

Governments are run by people, at the end of the day

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[–] Dinodicchellathicc@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (12 children)

The world was a better place when politicians had to worry about get tarred and feathered, quartered, or thrown out of windows.

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