Remember when the downfalls of capitalism was used to argue that actually it was communism all along? Well apparently this guy thinks capitalism is actually Indian culture.

Capitalism is apparently anything but capitalism.

  • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
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    Comments are arguing that price gouging is good because it makes people use resources more efficiently during scarcity. Why is this website so shit?

      • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
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        It’s not even that. Even assuming this premise is true, perhaps people should not need to blow half their life savings obtaining basic necessities during a catastrophe?

        More than three centuries of capitalism and the efficiencies of the free market still exist only in theories.

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        to add

        If they didn’t charge that much, the first few customers would take it all.

        There’s a much more effective solution called “rationing”. Remember that only good war that Amerika and UK fought and won, and how successful that was at the time.

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      Website? You’re talking about 99% of people in America.

      This is a country where some greedy hicks are trying to sell a pair of shoes for $75,000 because a rapper used a picture of them. Capitalism knows no bounds.