I love how the best defense of capitalism people can come up with us “but poor business owners run risks too”, like that’s the point you little twat, I want to socialize the risks and the profits, I don’t want people sleeping on their street because their business idea didn’t work

How so? I’ve never heard that before

They absolutely don’t both solve the problem, plenty of homeless people in the capitalist world compared to the 0 people in former USSR

I’ll fight you alright. I’m Spanish, and making pa amb tomaca for breakfast feels like waking up to a godly meal. I also visited the US for like a week, and I remember my delicious breakfast of eggs, bacon, hash browns and Cholula sauce that I had one day, or french toast another day (never had french toast before).

Yeah, it makes no sense to allow the patenting of literal living creatures…

Another funny one to me is tools and machines, it’s literally telling people: “NO! ONLY I CAN ARRANGE ATOMS IN THIS ORDER!!!” Kinda wild that we allow that

Drej tbh

Insane that we allow for the privatisation of wavelengths.

"NO!! ONLY I CAN MOVE ELECTRONS AT THIS FREQUENCY, I PAID FOR IT, RWAAAAHHH!!

Not very hopeful but it’s something

Muh free market?

But first they have to get utterly shit on for trying to do it by the book

How many decades in are we?

Is my ideology outdated by 1200 years?

“military stocks”. How do we allow that concept to exist

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Could you please do that? I’m on mobile phone right now and I’m gonna fuck up I feel

Public entities are tasked by the people to act in their best interest

Business owners only represent themselves

So, public entities are democratic with the objective of bettering a society, whereas businesses are completely egotistic projects conceived exclusively for the profit of a few. This is exactly why I’m a socialist.

For your 4th paragraph: this can actually qualify as corruption. The CEO is tasked with acting in the shareholders’ best interest

Ok, please tell me what CEOs are publicly known that have been convicted because of that. If it’s exclusively so “de jura” but not “de facto”, it’s useless to me. Regardless, in your example it’s just because it’s a delegation of power from the shareholders to the CEO. If it were the shareholders abusing nepotism, it wouldn’t be a case of corruption because they’re the owners. That’s never the case in the public sector.

Notice how the point of my post isn’t to avow corruption in the public sphere, but show how otherwise morally (or even legally) objectionable behaviour is completely normalized in capitalism.

Lol we wish

Oh no, all good, just wanted to say that I’ve mostly addressed it in my other interactions

Seriously, how extremely antiscientific is it that they think they can provide 2-significant-digits approximations for the GDP contribution of an emerging technology 14 years in the future? How does anyone not fucking smack them for that?

Read the rest of my interactions with the other user in this comment chain

I want to believe that, whether intentionally or unintentionally, they’re forging the material conditions for revolution to be successful. Even if they don’t go full commie in a few decades (as they should in my opinion, shifting progressively from market socialism to a democratically centrally computationally planned economy with social ownership of the means of production), the existence of a multipolar world with china on one side is already incredibly more beneficial than US hegemony.