Fluent In Finance is when you side with the landlords leeching your money away

  • Goferking0
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    11 months ago

    Didn’t they just describe the entire point of capitalism?

    • facow [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      Damn I can’t believe capitalism keeps advancing to its extremely predictable endpoint. This must be something new not my beloved capitalism let’s call it crony capitalism. That’ll solve it

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        11 months ago

        I’m sure it’s just due to some pesky consumer protections. Better just remove any regulations, that’ll fix it! /s

        • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          11 months ago

          We’ll try making some kind of East something Trading Company. Surely, we can defeat the monopolizing tendency of capitalism with a corporate-government hybrid structure.

      • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
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        Also lets ignore Lenins work that literally describes this and calls it imperialism, more than half a century before the term “crony capitalism” was coined.