29 Dec 2021 8:51 pm
I find it quite interesting that you unwittingly describe mafia activity as capitalism. It is simply not possible that these "capitalists" were serving lawful markets. You're talking about mafiosos.LibDave » 29 Dec 2021, 9:37 pm » wrote: ↑ Well capitalism did exist in a small way even in Russia. Beyond the black market (which I was already well aware). And it was illegal so capitalism too had to be "underground". It was considered organized crime by the Soviets and therefore no actual stock was issued. It was based on trust.
I know. That is the very crux of the issue.LibDave » 29 Dec 2021, 9:37 pm » wrote: ↑I don't make the huge distinction you do between capitalism and free enterprise.
Okay. Let us grant you this argument. I don't - but for the sake of argument, let us.LibDave » 29 Dec 2021, 9:37 pm » wrote: ↑Even what you consider free enterprise is in many cases capitalism. If I have a table saw and a neighbor pays me to let him use it to make a table for his kitchen this is capitalism as I am receiving profit from the use of my capital.
My issue is with WALL STREET capitalism. So let us not argue over what we agree about, shall we? Let us argue WALL STREET capitalism - that capitalism which conforms to the definition about which my complaints are made.
If you want to defend THAT capitalism - the I lent my neighbor a saw capitalism, - you will get no argument from me. But if you wish to defend WALL STREET capitalism - the capitalism that is birthed, born, regulated, bailed out and sustained by the government gun, - then perhaps you might begin by explaining why I'm being bullied to surrender my very bodily autonomy to a wall street experiment under threat of the government gun?
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"Because I SAY I am" is a todler's tantrum, not "science"
You cannot betray me - only yourself, to me.
Who cuts off your dick is not a friend
An opinion you won't defend is not your own
Humanity's Law of the Jungle: Survival NOT of the fittest, but of the tribe
When peeing in the pool, stand on the edge
If gender is not sex, why should a gender claim change what sex you shower with?