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   Paxil (paxil@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 09:12:27 JST Paxil

   • MikeDunnAuthor

   @MikeDunnAuthor #Socialism gets a little oily for me when the government gets to choose winners and loser but I seriously believe in reform #Capitalism and maybe the government fully takes over some of these 'public-private' government contracts like defense and the post office. They can probably do it more efficiently without shareholder interference.

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     ☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭ (radical_egocom@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 09:12:27 JST ☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭

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     @Paxil

     Reforming capitalism into what? Into a system that doesn't exploit workers? That's impossible. No matter how many reforms you introduce into capitalism, capitalism will still be exploitative. Capitalism is a system that is contingent on the private owners of the means of production, coercing the non-owenrs into working for them in order to make a profit off of them. 1/

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     ☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭ (radical_egocom@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 09:12:42 JST ☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭

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     @Paxil

     This dynamic between private owners (capitalists) and non-owners (workers) will inevitably spawns such things as wage decreases to earn higher profits, which will eventually lead to poverty for the lower class workers while the upper class becomes richer, until we end up right in the same place we are now. Capitalist reforms are a vicious cycle that won't end until capitalism is abolished. 2/2

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     ☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭ (radical_egocom@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 12:36:30 JST ☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭

     @Paxil

     What fiscal policy could possibly be introduced to capitalism to make it so that "workers have a choice to work or not?"

     What exactly is the capitalist system the best in the world at? It's definitely the best at imperialism, environmental destruction, and exploitation of workers.