Wojack one: "under capitialisim if you can do it better make your own and sell it, the market will decide whose is best". Wojack two: "I made a better product for half the price". Wojack one: "NO thats patent violation"
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[–] 62 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Capitalists say the free market is king then they go and make laws to stifle and restrict it so they can make monopolies and gouge everyone out of their hard-earned income.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Capitalism is an egotistic not an idealistic movement. Capitalists don't become capitalists because they think it benefits everyone, but because they think it benefits them. That's why someone like Elon Musk is only against government subsidies if he's not the recipient.

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  • [+] -14 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    They are not Capitalists. In fact capitalism is a great idea, it just we don't have it.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Other way around. They're capitalists but don't support the free market. So they want the factory to be privately owned and run for profit, but they still want the government to interfere with patent-infringing sales.

    And I'd argue that capitalism is an inherently bad idea, even in theory. Nobody deserves free rent just for owning something, like land or natural resources. Property manager is a job, landlord is not.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    So they want the factory to be privately owned and run for profit, but they still want the government to interfere

    We should take a step back and recognize that they want the government to interfere by recognizing and enforcing their ownership of the factory in the first place.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Properly regulated capitalism isn't strictly horrible. The biggest issue we have is that first bit, unfortunately.

    -Me, a dirty socialist

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