• Donkter@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    The absolute worst is them saying socialism is pessimistic because it thinks people can’t do anything for themself and coddles them with a nanny state. Then turns around and says “you have to structure capitalism assuming every single person is a greedy sociopath hellbent on fucking over everyone else to make money.”

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      6 days ago

      you have to structure capitalism assuming every single person is a greedy sociopath hellbent on fucking over everyone else to make money.

      So… Social Democracy? Which they also oppose? 🤔

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        6 days ago

        Not exactly, the argument (is incoherent and insane) is something like “you can’t have too much democracy and centralized power because people in power are always corrupt.” ✨Somehow✨ laissez-faire capitalism is supposed to naturally account for corruption and sociopathy because the free market forces(???) them to do good things because people are able to spend their money somewhere else. Always non-violent btw ❤️