Capitalism won’t work because of human nature. Why would you trust humans with a system that rewards their natural greed?
Capitalism sounds like a good idea on paper, but it just doesn’t work in practice.
Oh, so you support capitalism? Why don’t you go move to Thailand and do slave labor for Nestle?
Capitalism is a bad idea, the millions of people killed by capitalism can attest to that.
as with a lot of these “parodying someone’s argument by applying it in a different context”
sort of thing the funniest part is unintentional, in that these are all a) arguments frequently used against capitalism and b) actually fairly solid arguments against capitalism, even if they’re expressed too glibly to be intelligible to people who don’t already hold them.
I have seen too many claims in libertarian writing that it hasn’t been implemented because powerful people are too greedy with absolutely no irony.
Well there does seem to be this idea that there’s all this corrupt government intervention…
…combined with a strange lack of awareness that it can be more profitable locally to subvert the government even if it harms the market generally. The idea seems to be that if you stripped away all the state power it wouldn’t come back by the exact same forces that put it there in the first place.
