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USA today is capitalism in it's final stage.
The USA is a completely desolidarized society. The rich have shut themselves off in special neighborhoods with security guards and gates with access codes, they have their own universities, hospitals, schools, kindergartens.
The middle class got completely dissolved in the last crisis, you pretty much need two jobs to support a decent life.. after the third eight hours job you at least don't need a flat anymore which saves a lot of money, which is neat.
The lower third is completely in the shit, they are either homeless or living in neighborhoods where the police don't have the courage to show up in anymore.
The only sociopolitical measurement is to lock you away.
In the USA more people are incarnated in prison per 100 000 persons than in any other country on earth. More than in china and in north korea.
Which again is neat cause you an privatize prisons and make real big money this way.
But despite so many people being in prison, the main cause of death for a young american is being murdered. Every year over 30'000 americans die being shot on the open street. That's over eighty every day. 80 deaths a day, in other countries like Iraq that is called civil war.
It's also civil war in the USA, capitalism in it's final stage is civil war, but the poor aren't fighting the rich, but the poor are shooting each other to death, on top of that with weapons the rich sold them. Kinda like we do with africa too.
This is capitalism. Divide and conquer.
95% of all media in the USA is in the hand fo 5 really rich families, they have perfected the way of division and fucked merritards minds so much, they even reject politicians who actually want to give them healthcare insurance.
The rest of europe is driving straight towards the same cliff, the USA already went over.
Discuss.
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>>571116156
You forgot 9 out of 10 congressional elections are and the presidential election are decided by money. In America, wealth is power, not only in the private domain, but in government as well.
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>>571116156
>>571116156
People with little wealth are forced to sell themselves to those with higher amounts of wealth. This is known as employment. The employers use the labor of the worker to create products or services. They then sell these products, pay the employee a wage, and pocket the rest of the wealth created by the employee as profit.
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>>571116156
MAYBE JUST MAYBE NIGGERS SHOULDENT HAVE BEEN SET FREE AND WE WOULDENT HAVE THESE PROBLEMS
NIGGERS ARE THE MAIN CAUSE OF PROBLEMS ON THIS PLANET
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>In the USA more people are incarnated in prison per 100 000
>more people are incarnated in prison
>incarnated
are you being serious?
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well do something about it then faggot
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>>571116156
>it's
It's ITS, you faggot
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well said OP
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>>571116156
The United States, with 5% of the world's population houses 25% of the world's prisoners. The job of police officers, Law Enforcement, is to enforce the law. As I covered earlier, the rich write the laws. The police is an institution that acts as a mercenary apparatus for state power. They protect the rich from the poor.
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fucking commies, you aren't gonna take our freedom away
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>>571120776
For example, Adam Smith said “Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.” Jame Madison, father of the constitution put it a different way: "Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority."
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our technological and agricultural state, the abundance of resource and creation at our disposal, readily allows for a largely capitalist society, given certain municipal provisions and scaling taxation to cover these provisions, with the spirit of capitalism embodied by those who wish to have more than their mean way of life (have a better house, better car, better _stuff_ that must be traded for more _money_)
but there is no reason for poverty, starvation, or homelessness in our world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
I don't know how we get from where we are to "there", or even if this is the right "there", but it looks like a decent goal to me
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>>571116156
So, why aren't you taking this up with /pol/? They'd actually take you seriously. Also,
>incarnated
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what a bunch of commie scum bs
go die in the gulags fags
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>>571116156
Y'all niggaz need Marx.
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>>571121239
in /pol/s eyes, we should just kill all jews, blacks and other minorities to fix all of these problems.
really, they are fken stupid.
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>>571116156
>The rich have shut themselves off in special neighborhoods with security guards and gates with access codes, they have their own universities, hospitals, schools, kindergartens.
this is literally the same in EVERY type of government. Guess where the politicians and business owners live at in a communist/socialist government? At least the capitalists straight up tell you that "nigga u poor pls go" instead of "we are all the same it just happens to be that i have extra legal rights and live in a 700k house when the average person can't afford a 50k house"
>The middle class got completely dissolved in the last crisis, you pretty much need two jobs to support a decent life.. after the third eight hours job you at least don't need a flat anymore which saves a lot of money, which is neat.
Yeah, if you were a psychology major or someone who wasn't smart with money. I have two parents who barely can speak English. Guess what they did when the market crashed in 08? They walked it off and decided to WORK, not complain. Although they aren't rich, they are living in comfort right now. They are also over 60, so if your 18 year old ass can't start all over and find a new way like my parents then you should go and live in a communist nation to get spoonfed by the elite.
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>>571116156
Swedish Socialism please.
PLS
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>>571116156
the USA is niggerloving in its final stage
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>>571121836
if you think the sweeds thrive cos of socialism u are a retard.. it's cos of socialism their going down the gutter pretty soon that and sandnigger immigration, sweeden now the rape capital of the world hahahaha
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>>571116156
>>571116156
Nope, bro. What do you say can be applied to almost every decade since war.
Despite I, as european, hate certain aspects of the U.S. arrogance (like the NSA in the front), it still kick ass, and its economy is getting better.
United States have changed in the last 50 years, but it STILL somewhat was able to keep its power and opportunities. It was good in a certain way. Now it is different - but still good. Differently. But it is working.
And rest of the world has still the same troubles.. as before.
In the other words - times have changed. But the greater picture still did not.
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>>571122131
Low quality comment.
What is this?
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>>571121193
You do realize that you are basically describing socialism, right?
Do you know why there is poverty, starvation, and homelessness in our world?
It's all because 95% of them were lazy fucks or socially retarded people who couldn't pick up a 50k chance if it was handed to them. I do admit that some (like mentally/physically ill people) cannot help it. But excluding these extraneous situations, why do you expect a guy who didn't do work in school or in the work field get the same benefits as a dude who spent 8 hours a day for 4-12 years studying for a college degree that matters? Or over a guy who went into the work force after high school and worked his way up?
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>>571122315
sandnigger lover go suck a dick fag
also your mom gives great bjs
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“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” John Steinbeck
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>>571122794
what I'm saying is that the only thing that should be provided universally, unconditionally, is the basic means of survival and social access; our resources do in fact allow for that
but for anything, and I mean anything more, you would still have to bust your ass in school and getting a real job
and if the economy takes a turn or your life fucks up somehow? you can still fall back on that basic income and make ends meet till you work something else out
pure socialism robs people of the right to work hard and achieve, and I don't condone that
these good sides don't have to be mutually exclusive is what I'm saying
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>>571116156
This isn't capitalism, it's a mix of corporatism and the welfare state. But yeah, the US is getting more fucked every year with the social politics
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>>571116156
>desolidarized society
yeah sure
just look at how much feminists care about equality and fairness, and the power they have
or the fact that there are even laws to protect teenagers from having sex with someone that is a bit older and regretting it later which may hurt their morale, because our society is so perfect we dont know what to improve
or the fact that the government is socialist because people actually votes for solidarity
all the anti racism and the tolerance with homosexuals etc
how is that desolidarized or not empathic?
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>>571122131
>>571122315
Interesting how the guy spewing racism and calling others retards doesn't know the difference between "their" and "they're".
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>>571117459
http://www.atlassociety.org/ele/true-capitalism-vs-crony-capitalism
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>>571116156
>incarnated
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fuck yeah let the rich be rich,
middle class just be chillin,
let the dirty stinky niggers and beta poor fags kill each other, their doing us a favor
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I warn you, young americans. By your boredom, you have become distrustfull of your system and your ways - that is natural and OK. There has to be a control voice, allways. American politics were allways like the flame - great tool, but a bad master, if left too free.
But do not, in your hate, look blindly to other systems and things you do not understand as if they would solve your problems.
Greater, more advanced system can be only deserved and naturally achieved - not imposed. Try to be a better individuals. Better individuals will form a better society, and better society will have better politics.
In that order - not the other way around.
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>>571123563
True capitalism is crony capitalism. Crony capitalism is the practical application of capitalist theory. State power and private power evolved together synergistically. They are inseparable.
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>>571120152
Shut up, Meg!
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>>571116156
Also wenn du schon pispers zitierst, nenne doch die quelle
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>>571121762
Says the /b/tard living with his parents.
>this is literally the same in EVERY type of government.
Does not make it ok. In America, so we are taught, everyone should be afforded the same opportunity.
& yeah some of the middle class got destroyed and some didn't, but it's not an either or argument but rather one of trends and direction. Where are we headed? Is the economy getting better or worse? For whom? Are the most people benefiting? Those are the questions that need addressing.
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>>571124106
...continued: Real capitalists- the wealthy, the corporations, do not have a problem with Crony Capitalism. In fact they love it.
"Big capital will support tax-lowering measures, of course, but it does not need to piss and moan about taxes with the tedious relentlessness of the libertarian. Big capital, with its ranks of accountant-Houdinis, just gets on with not paying it. And why hate a state that pays so well? Big capital is big, after all, not only because of the generous contracts its state obligingly hands it, but because of the gun-ships with which its state opens up markets for it.
Libertarianism, by contrast, is a theory of those who find it hard to avoid their taxes, who are too small, incompetent or insufficiently connected to win Iraq-reconstruction contracts, or otherwise chow at the state trough. In its maundering about a mythical ideal-type capitalism, libertarianism betrays its fear of actually existing capitalism, at which it cannot quite succeed. It is a philosophy of capitalist inadequacy."
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>>571119801
I think edgy is over used, but it clearly applies here.
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>>571122287
That's not true. There hasn't been a wage increase since the 60's or 70's eventhough production has increased at least 3or 4 orders of magnitude. Our economy 'kicks ass' on paper, but it's done nothing for its citizenry. We have been degenerating from a once promising economy to scrapping around for work. & no, it does not have to be this way.
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>>571122921
That's one reason. Another reason is that the rich systematically destroyed socialism's reputation in order to keep unfair labor practices or maximum profit.
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>>571123392
lol, things that /b/ "cares" about. rofl. fucking /b/, don't ever change.
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>>571126123
Socialism and capitalism work hand in hand. Capitalism looks out for companies and socialism looks out for citizens.
It's sad knowing that people on /b/ know better than politicians.
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>>571123971
Btw people, this is the definition of conservative.
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>>571126951
Whatever you say nigger.
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>>571126951
shutup nigger
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>>571116156
>USA today is capitalism in it's final stage.
Teleological accounts of history are inherently flawed. Society doesn't evolve in a particular direction it adapts to stimuli and moves according to the will of those who govern and to a lesser degree those who are governed.
The United States is a capitalist society where cronyism between the government and lobbyists has created a set of laws that suppress the lower and middle class and destroy free market competition within the capitalist economy. The end result is that the wealth of the nation is concentrated into fewer and fewer hands as the largest corporations buy everyone out.
Its a symptom of corruption not an inherent flaw in capitalism.
>But despite so many people being in prison, the main cause of death for a young american is being murdered.
You were doing well till you spouted this inane shit. The violent crime rate in England is actually about 30% higher than it is in the United States. In the inner city ghettos crime and murder are a significant factor, in the rest of the country not so much. Next time you give this spiel cut this bit out.
>they even reject politicians who actually want to give them healthcare insurance.
Again you're spouting your mouth off about shit you know nothing about. Obamacare doesn't give us anything, it forces us to buy insurance, and puts more regulations on the insurance industry; but it does nothing to drive down healthcare costs. Its just another bureaucracy.
>The rest of europe is driving straight towards the same cliff, the USA already went over.
Seems that way, just don't focus all your wrath on the mean nasty corporations. You can't trust the government either.
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>>571126640
only you responded, i guess the bait was too obvious kek
what i actually meant is that our society is not only desolidarized
people cares about others sometimes, or "cares" if trained to (sad but thats how it is for most, they show empathy when they know they are expected to, but they even convince themselves so in a way they are nice), but they are trained to care about the wrong things
racism, women or homosexual rights ... are virtually not a problem realistically yet the lobbies are so powerful, neither is teenager sex and there are laws agaisnt it, meanwhile many people literally live miserably, and the middle class are taken away half their waking time by shitty stupid jobs
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>>571128636
>Its a symptom of corruption not an inherent flaw in capitalism.
There are a great many things inherently wrong with money. the first is that it's not even real.
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>>571126783
It's called social democracy.
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>>571128636
>Seems that way, just don't focus all your wrath on the mean nasty corporations. You can't trust the government either.
Yeah stop picking on the corporations guys they are our friends! It's the governments fault.
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>>571129353
>There are a great many things inherently wrong with money. the first is that it's not even real.
Property is real, money is ultimately just an abstract means of representing property so it can be used as a common medium of exchange.
The problem with society isn't money its something more fundamental, its power.
In a capitalist society money is power and power concentrated into the hands of the elite allows them to control the rest of the society.
In a communist society (a real one, not a slave plantation like China) political power is concentrated into the hands of the party elite and it allows them to control the rest of society.
Concentration of power into the hands of the few is the problem, not the form that power takes.
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>>571116156
>final stage
Are you kidding me nigga? The final stage follows from the end of the nation-state. Authority and capital will be the same.
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>>571130343
they are already in a way....
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>>571130221
>not a slave plantation like China
wut
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>>571130221
My nigga.
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>>571128636
>>571129507
>Yeah stop picking on the corporations guys they are our friends! It's the governments fault.
My post was about how in the United States collusion between the wealthy elite of society and the political elite of the government had created a corrupt system that kept the common man down.
If you think you can trust corporations OR the government then you're a fucking idiot.
Powerful men do not have your best interests at mind.
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>>571116156
>USA today is capitalism in it's final stage.
...said every communist every year ever
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>>571116156
ssshhhheeeeeiiiiiitttttt
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but in Russia horrorshow
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>>571121331
you always have >>>/pol/ if you're looking for a right-wing circlejerk.
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>>571129494
>facepalm
It's called social market economy
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Britfag here, been to the US, middle class never was dissolved and why send your kids to a shitty school when you can get your own school?
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>>571116156
US and EU will never collapse. They should've long ago, but they're globalistic these days.
Places like Russia are still imperialistic. Power is centralized and once the head expires, every connected branch comes down like a house of cards. In "the west", i.e. 80% of Earth at this point, power is decentralized. Defunct agencies are taken out of the equation on a conveyor belt and civil discontent keeps society amorphous.
It's going to change for sure, but it'll stick around and bounce back up with part of this disheveled mesh of institutions swapped out for replacements.
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>>571116156
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxTmftNiDs8
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>>571130745
China is basically a plantation at this point.
The government sells the slave labor of its people to western corporations and then uses the profits to build up their country and line their own pockets. The Chinese don't have freedom of speech, or religion, they have no meaningful property rights, and their needs are largely taken care of by their masters.....in other words they're slaves.
China is the most successful plantation in the history of the world. Its used western greed to fuel its growth as our own corporations have built up a communist dictatorship because abusing their people and poisoning their environment allowed them to save money by not having to pay a western laborer an honest wage.
And western governments let our corporations do this; because in the end they work for the elite, not the working class.
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>>571130221
What you say is true. Money facilitates power and in this way we are enslaved.
If money were gone, our enslavement would be much less poignant however, and power and influence would decrease tremendously especially since production would fall into the hands of the producer spreading power over a greater playing field.
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RIOOOOTTTT!!! KILL THE RICCHHH
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>>571131972
what a load of bullshit
it's not our fault chinese workers accept their shitty conditions.
we have to make a profit, you know to feed idiots like you
plus there is a good amount of diplomatic pressure on the chinese
what do you want us to do ? free them by invasion ??
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>>571131607
>social market economy
And social market economy is not the same as social democracy?
>gotnoface
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>>571131972
So you mean everybody in china works in a factory?
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ITT: Latte liberals, champagne socialists, tuxedo Trotskyists, afternoon anarchists...
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>>571131856
Lol, US and EU haven't collapsed because they are practicing neo-colonialism, but as populations grows more and more educated, they will have to stop
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>>571132876
ehm no it is not the same thing. social democracy is a political movement.
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>>571131972
>Describes America
>Is China
top lel
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>>571133146
>neo-colonialism
hahaha, gtfo of here with that shit. There's nothing to colonize for anyone anymore.
Fucking naive white guilt shit from a self-hating American.
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>>571116156
>the main cause of death for a young american is being murdered.
Nigger do you actually believe this? If so have a bath with a toaster
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>>571132597
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6y2St9zfQs
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Dividi et impera
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>>571116156
you are a retard and everything you think you know or understand is wrong.
But thanks.
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>>571116156
caring and posting this on half-chan?
i'm confused once again.
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>>571133028
hey, at least it's something
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>>571116156
>you at least don't need a flat anymore
>flat
>Britfag acting like he knows what the fuck is happening in the US.
Here's a tip britbong: You're in a worse state than the amerifats, you're importing muslims who are instituting shariah law, you're losing your most brilliant scientists to the US and Sweden, and you've got cameras on every corner and people are trying to make kitchen knives illegal.
If you want to panic about something, I suggest you look around yourself.
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>>571133436
idiot, you can't even define neo-colonialism
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>>571133436
We are currently involved in three armed conflicts with 1000 military bases aroun the world. It is economic colonialism. The military is used to open markets for our corporations.
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>>571134063
Out of curiosity, have you ever actually been to Europe? Or is all of this from infowars?
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>>571116156
Go try living in some third world slav shithole and then come back and tell me how bad is living in the usa, faggot.
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>>571116156
Meh, don't care. Headed East.
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>>571134098
>The military is used to open markets for our corporations.
>Implying American jurisdiction is necessary for American businesses to be active on foreign markets
>Implying everyone and their mother doesn't invite foreign currency with open arms to inflate their exchange rate
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>>571133146
>but as populations grows more and more educated, they will have to stop
Why would they have to stop? Because people will tell them to?
Frankly people only care about shit as long as it doesnt affect their standard of living. The second they cant buy a big screen tv for $150 anymore or they have to pay a few more cents at the pump is the second they call for the US to nuke every other country.
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>>571121569
Fuck you, Commie. Communism will never win.
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>>571134187
i haven't been talking about europe at all whatsoever. what is your point, exactly? better to travel through america or mexico to get a feel of what poverty and oppression can do to a society. been thorough half of south america too.
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>>571134623
>i haven't been talking about europe at all
>Except stating that it's mid-apocalypse in the OP
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>>571134098
our military bases are guarding important oil fields around the world in case of a world war
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Has anyone ever told you that you look like enrique iglesias? Of course not you're much cuter.
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>>571134443
yeah of course ... so ...
wait until the resources run out in 500 years?
i guess ii'll just hope or a zombie apocalypse instead.
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>>571134705
the chinaman is not the issue so wtf are you talking about?
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>>571116156
Capitalism is the absence of economic rules. How, then, is "Capitalism in its final stage" if the system in question is full of economic rules?
Don't believe me? Look at what it takes to start a business in the most mundane of industries. Then look at what it takes to start a business in something more regulated like, well, agriculture, for instance.
Check out tax rates. Simulate a startup and run the numbers yourself. It's plane to see if you care to see it. If you have any talent with mathematics at all, and if you have 20 minutes to sit down and do some actual work then you can uncover the truth.
Or, I suppose you can just regurgitate bullshit other people have spewed, while simultaneously getting on a horse so high you can't see the crowd you walk through.
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>>571134006
You've never been to britain have you?
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>>571116156
Furthermore, by stifling the individual's right to self production you will only cause humanity's progress to stall, at a time when that is infinitely worse than at any other point in recorded history.
We're spewing greenhouse gases and other shit into the atmosphere, China and India mostly but also the USA and Europe. If we keep going at capitalist rates we'll be full nuclear and beyond coal/oil in 50 years.
If we stall, however, we could be stuck burning coal and oil to exhaustion, then resorting to methane, or other hydrocarbons.
Or even worse, we could enter another dark age, and have to go through all of this again in 800 years.. only with centuries of built up detritus from the leftovers of a former golden age.
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>>571133028
This
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>>571116156
True. Now go and do something about it. Circlejerking about this on /b/ will achieve nothing.
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>>571134193
>you better shut the fuck up because it's not the absolute worst situation that there is.
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>>571133028
/thread
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>>571135083
Oh, I get it: Capatilism (thought of 300 years ago or so or whatever) is good.
We don't practice capatilism.
Don't hate capitalism because if it's old, then it's sacred?
I'll go read the bible then. Maybe I'll get to crucify Jesus.
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>>571121239
/pol/ sides with the pieces of shit that are responsible for the way they are.
they are actually lauding the coming age where machines take everything over and 2/3 of population are forcibly homeless and or jailed.
no better than kikes, /pol/ is a fucking joke.
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>>571135664
>People believe capitalism will save us from problems created by capitalism
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>>571116156
>But despite so many people being in prison, the main cause of death for a young american is being murdered.
bullshit its heart disease and car accidents
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>>571116156
I think what you are trying to say is: mankind is inherently self-destructive and we're on the brink, in which case I'd agree, but I wouldn't judge this to be uniquely American
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>>571117459
fuck off socialist scum
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>OP makes thread calling out capitalism
>Puts Ron Paul as .jpg
You clearly have no idea what capitalism is or who the fuck Ron Paul is you stupid fuck. Kill yourself.
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>>571135664
none of that will happen. more oil and gas reserves will be discovered.coal and methane are used in the transition phase to green energy.
we deal with the ecological damage afterwards with futuristic terraforming technology.
>you being hysterical
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>>571137085
No you
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>>571136764
actually, it's more like an abundance of resources makes man greedy and violent
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>>571136702
b-b-but the problem is that we don't capitalism hard enough anon.
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>>571137521
exactly !
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>>571137521
Corporatism != Capitalism
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>>571116156
>flat
stopped reading. shut up, eurobro. enjoy your muslims
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>>571137130
True that more oil an gas reserves will be discovered, but discovery has peaked and it is on a downward trend. We have to bring the equivalent of a new Saudi Arabia online every 3 years to keep up with declining output in existing oil fields.
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>>571137979
Meanwhile earthquakes in Texas ....
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>>571138216
Yeah for real. I live in Oklahoma. People are buying earthquake insurance. The low hanging fruit is gone.
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>>571137773
most people criticizing capitalism actually have a problem with the behaviour of certain corporations.
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>>571132806
>not our fault
>entirely our fault
>free them via invasion
>100% all american thinking
kill yourself.
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>>571135083
The "rules" you bitch about are created by former businessmen too. They are there to protect BIG business from the threat of the startup.
Capitalism isn't the problem, it's the poisonous effect of money in politics that's the problem.
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>>571138717
Shut up, Meg!
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>>571137979
>>571138216
>>571138473
I can sense your irrational fears.
You should insure your pants.
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>>571124106
Or, restrict the government's power so that it can't shut down small agricultural businesses, stop giving farmers subsidies, and not "regulating" agriculture to favor large corporations like Monsanto, dumbass.
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>>571116156
Yup, such is neoliberalism.
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>>571116156
You're on some retarded shit OP. You've crafted all this semantics bait and I'm not biting.
The US is bogged down with problems a bit but if we nuke the bog then we'll have loads of nice new smooth glass acreage to build on. Good thing is the bog is already set up to be nuked. Figuratively of course.
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capitalism is the best working system out there.
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>>571139227
lol, are you one of those scuzzy oil workers?
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>>571136702
>China
>capitalist
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>>571139227
When we first discovered oil there were 2 trillion barrels in the ground. We've burned 1 trillion barrels since then. It took nature 400 million years to create that oil. Because it eventually becomes unprofitable to do so, we will not be able to recover 100% of the oil in the ground. 54 out of 65 of the planet's major oil producing countries have past their peaks in oil production. It takes 10 calories of hydrocarbon energy to produce 1 calorie of food in our industrialized food system.
This is not irrational fear. It is mathematical analysis.
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>>571120927
>fucking commies, you aren't gonna take our freedom away
sorry bro. your time is up
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>>571121679
whaaaat. I read his book "The Micro Politics of Capital" a few years back
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>>571138863
>Capitalism isn't the problem, it's the poisonous effect of money in politics that's the problem.
The real problem can only be symbolized by money in politics, the real world is a domestically conflicted nation that necessitates militant corporate-economic policy.
People think they can cure a disease by curing a symptom.
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>>571140074
yes it is irrationial fear because you are not taking into account that we are already moving towards alternatives f
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>>571132806
>it's not our fault chinese workers accept their shitty conditions.
they don't. they kill themselves
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>>571133796
>you are a retard and everything you think you know or understand is wrong.
another well-placed bit of emotional propaganda. Thanks for dropping in, shill
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>>571141165
I am. No technology will allow us to achieve infinite growth, which is what the current system is designed for. I don't think you are factoring in the scale of the predicament. I encourage you to read Tom Murphy's blog Do the Math.
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>>571141662
Damn that's a good protest. If the peasants in the revolution only knew that instead of storming the castles they just had to kill themselves...
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ITT: americunts get what they deserve
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>>571142107
>no technology will allow us to achieve infinite growth
How do you know that ? And who is talking about infinite growth ?
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>>571142107
Listen, I just want to you to have some faith in humanity. We'll find a solution. We don't have to raise the zombie systems of communism etc.
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>>571143290
Our economy is based on growth. Growing GDP= good economy. "Negative growth", as an economist would call is, = bad. The growth of the physical economy requires natural resource inputs in the form of raw materials and energy. For example, energy consumption has grown at a steady average of 2.9% since about 1650 or so. This is not sustainable, even though our economic model acts as if this can continue indefinitely. This growth will probably end in our lifetimes.
So far we have mostly used fossil fuels to fund this growth in energy. Our infrastructure was built on oil that got 100:1 EROEI. Fueling our economy with something like Photovoltaics that get 3% of that EROEI is no easy task. EROEI is only one aspect of whether or not alternatives will ever be economically feasible. We also have to worry about energy storage, transmission, transportability, etc...
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>>571140074
Much nigga
Are you from thoildrum ?
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>>571144991
>Oh it's getting to difficult, let's just stop and die
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>>571146247
>Lets not change what clearly isn't working
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>>571146247
Not difficult, physically impossible. I've not advocated rolling over and dying, though. There are options...just none that involve an infinitely growing capitalist economy.
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>2014
>Not having basic income yet
SHIGGY DIGGY
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>>571144991
Its great to find someone else out in the wild who understands our energy situation.
*tips fedora*
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>>571147339
bullshit. you just wait for the next crisis to advocate your neo-socialist crap. people won't fall for you wannabe dictators again. you're wasting your time
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OP is spot on with his statement.
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>>571147339
"Earth will never run out of copper because humans will create it out of other elements"
- what economist actually believe
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>>571116156
Capitalism is awesome fucking socialists
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>>571148430
lel. he didnt say anything about socialism.
Infinite growth on a finite planet is physically impossible. But, infinite growth is exactly what a capitalist economy requires to keep working.
The economy must grow so that loans can be repaid with interest. If the economy doesn't grow, there is no where for the interest to come from.
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>>571119801
you may need to ask for an adult, edges can be sharp, wouldn't want to cut yourself.
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>>571145638
>>571148346
Kudos
Oildrum is closed down, but I used to browse.
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>>571149664
>Infinite growth on a finite planet is physically impossible
I guess that's where spacetravel comes into play
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>>571150990
deus ex machina as a solution? Christian pls.
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>>571150990
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfIR0CVWbDg
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Are any of you guys hopeful these problems will start to be seriously dealt with in our lifetime?
I could see it go either way right now. There are a lot of people in this coming generation and probably the next one who seriously want something done to ensure long term stability of a first world lifestyle. But on the other hand, people are typically selfish and the wealthiest and most powerful tend to be some of the most selfish.
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>>571151348
/thread
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>>571124543
this
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>>571116156
What's with this two job nonsense. I didn't even finish highschool and I'm making 18$/hr cleaning restaurant grease and driving a truck.
Why the hell would an adult work for anything less than 12$. Even at 19 though I made minimum wage which laid my rent and put me through nightschool to get my Gas license. Which I didn't even use.
Point is people are bad with money.
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>>571119685
Damn that's motivational!
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>>571116156
More like communism.
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>>571151348
these problems are already dealt with. on which planet do you guys live ??
Damn they warned about /pol
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>>571150096
Well, I've got to to get off 4chan and go do homework.
Take it easy /b/ro
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>>571150990
You should become an economist :^)
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