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>>70584518
Capitalism doesn't work best when left alone, but by its design, it is supposed to be relatively self-adjusting, and so requires LESS maintenance.
Don't need to throw out capitalism, when the real problem is enforcement and making good on maintenance not happening because businesses are allowed to buy votes, essentially.
>>70584690
>Capitalism doesn't work best when left alone, but by its design, it is supposed to be relatively self-adjusting, and so requires LESS maintenance.
Essentially this also
>Three Mile Island
>Nobody died
>Worst nuclear accident in US history
Why the fuck don't we use nuclear power more?
>>70584845
>Why the fuck don't we use nuclear power more?
A combination of hippy liberals and the oil companies. So both sides are fucking us over.
>>70584518
"left alone"
A house for everyone was a government funded project.
>>70584845
Hippies and righteous cunts that think burning more coal due to dependence on intermittent power sources is a good idea
>threw mile island meme
for fucks sake three mile island was blown WAY THE FUCK out of proportion. The proper fail safes were in place and the engineers who built the dam thing were the least afraid of it.
>>70584518
If everyone was educated enough to make decisions that weren't retarded (investing major amounts of money in real-estate, actively bought high quality items), and competition came to fix the problem based on the decisions, then capitalism works great. If the government stopped robbing the people, then we can get paid more to spend on items (trickle-down economics)
>>70584518
>Nuclear power
Its has nothing to do with capitalism
>More muh ecological bullshit
Same answer
>Unselled houses
This has never happened
>Asians
Asians
>Muh rich people
They are rich because they worked hard, Also corporative bullshit doesn't equal to capitalism
>Ford Pinto
What
>>70584518
>Asian Sweatshops
>Bad
Better they have no jobs huh Libs?
>>70584518
Dude fuck the Ford Pinto and anyone who let that piece of shit on to the streets
>>70584518
>Sweatshops will and have never existed under a free market.
Hahaha.
>>70585125
>trickle-down economics
Careful, you'll trigger the socialists
>>70584845
Because if we do, Bernie Sanders will try dumping it in poor communities full of minorities, poisoning the land for generations by letting it leak into the water table.
>>70585149
the ford pinto in investigation reviled that Ford knew about the pintos flaw of exploding due to rear impact but discovered that it would be cheaper to compensate the families of accidental deaths rather than recall the car.
>asian sweatshops
China is capitalist?
>>70584845
>>70584949
>>70584970
It's a very appealingly efficient method, but there are environmental consequences.
b.b..b..b..b...b..b.b..b.b.bb.b.b.b.bbut we need rich people!!!!!!!1!!!!!!1!1!!1!!!!!
>>70585283
>>70585444
Like fucking what compared to other resources that aren't wind/solar/hydro?
>>70585125
lol trickle down economics, so when obama gave a bunch of car manufacturers huge block grants, instead of trickling down they just took it and ran.
>>70585149
>ecology is bullshit
>houses aren't unselled ever
>le gook meme
>all rich people got there just through work
wat
>>70585493
You work hard = you got more money
is not a hard concept
>>70585444
They're less bad than fossil fuels, and way better than the renewables.
>strawman, the picture
>>70584518
yeah, right, asian sweatshops, in "communist" china is capitalism's fault
>>70585175
No, they'd have a job. They would all be child prostitutes and sex workers.
>>70585592
>obama giving people stuff
>implying this is capitalism
>>70585610
>Isolated cases
>More isolated cases
>Implying not
>They did
>>70585376
i seem to recall this happening with a few other cars with similar life threatening issues.
>>70585626
so if youre a nobody at min wage and work hard your whole life, youll be rich?
>>70585626
no shit! thats how society works for sure!!!!!!!
no shit!!!!!!!
>>70585702
still didnt trickle down
>>70584518
Considering we had the AEC, EPA, and the NHTSA three of those could be used just as easily to argue against government regulation being effective. Two of those are the result of the same event where you could also make a case of the government's inability to regulate since it was the legislators that repealed those laws and then effectively transferred the losses to the taxpayer when they failed because of the high risks they took.
>>70584518
>what is crony-capitalism
>>70585175
Nobody said that. That's just a straw argument.
What people usually criticize about sweatshops is the fact that the workers live and work in appalling conditions for very low pay and little unionization.
>>70585444
This is actually wrong. It is much cleaner and safer than anything else we have ever used.
>>70585739
People work the min. wage to get education and get a REAL job
>>70585771
That is how the world work
>The weak die the stronk survive
>>70584845
google Fukushima
>>70585416
Yes. It has abandoned most aspects of far leftism since 1978.
Also, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Bangladesh, and the Philippines are capitalist.
>>70584518
leave alone the economic part, not the human rights part. not everything is black and white you nigger
>>70585916
>implying there's been no inflation since 1950s when things were "sweet"
>>70584518
>Three Mile Island
Caused by computer error, not lack of oversight
>Housing Bubble
Caused primarily by banking regulations, not the free market. Besides, even the most hardcore anarcho-capitalist acknowledges that a market crash must happen eventually.
>Asian sweatshops
The employees in these sweatshops are earning a fair wage in their country. Just because you think 25 cents and hour is inhumane doesn't make it so. These employees are likely the first people in their families to ever have an actual job that pays actual currency. Jesus fuck i'm triggered.
>Ford Pinto
Buy a better car. In a commie system, you only get the one car. God help you if comrade Ford fucks up that one car design because your dumb ass isn't getting anything else.
This image is retarded. I'm not an anarcho-capitalist but your image macro was made by an edgy teenager.
>>70585684
why pay massively high min wage of $7 USD when i can goto China and pay them $50cents an hour and threaten to give the jobs to vietnam if the government intervene
The first thing they use in an argument against capitalism is a nuclear accident that was so minor that nobody even got sick from it...? That the rates of cancer in the area actually became lower than the national average?
K
>>70586245
technically thats money leaving the american economy
>>70586245
Good point, we should raise it to $15
>>70585985
They call it "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics." In practice it's a form of state capitalism.
The rich are usually members of The Party so lefties don't care.
>>70585626
...in theory.
A clothing maker in Indonesia could work for years in a sweatshop but barely make enough money to buy rice for his wife and children. He probably wouldn't have access to affordable education, and he doesn't have the money to learn a trade and get a higher paying job.
>>70586415
You should slowly raise it not jump it straight up. It's ok for profits to soar but wages to stagnate
>>70586611
Yeah, I was shitposting about the California bill
>>70586595
Why does he have childrens if he can't afford it ?
>>70585796
There's a difference between
>I made 100 bucks and have to pay 50 dollars in taxes
>But the government gave me back 25 at the end of the year!
And
>I made 100 bucks and had to pay 20 bucks in taxes
Jeeze I have 30 bucks left over
>>70585820
they agreed to the pay and conditions, whats the problem?
>>70585588
Solar and wind power show a lot of promise. They're just still in development.
>>70585663
Yes nuclear power can be clean if proper precautions are taken. The issue is that people don't always want to take such precautions.
IMHO we should stick with fossil fuels and regulated nuclear energy but slowly wean ourselves off it while we develop cheaper and more efficient means for renewable energy.
>>70585444
The only environmental consequences is
>What the fuck do we do with this waste that won't disappear for 100,000 years?
>>70584518
At least it works, unlike Socialism
>capitalism isn't a utopia
who would have thought.
>>70585916
Oh great a social Darwinist who thinks that poverty killing people is natural selection.
>>70586846
Birth control and sex education are often very limited in developing countries. Even so, children past a certain age can bring more money in by getting a job.
>>70584518
>implying the government had nothing to do with the housing bubble.
>>70586953
There'd be no problem if they could get an alternative. It's just that the choices are between working a shit job for shit wages and unemployment.
>>70585957
>building nuclear power plants on the coast on a very active fault line is the same as building one out in the middle of nowhere
>>70587245
ad hominem
>>70587485
and i doubt that job will be a Min. wage job right ?
you can work multiple jobs at once you know ?
>>70585592
Saved the auto industry.
Record profits now.
Paid back the gov with interest.
Everyone is a winner
>>70585957
Japan has horrible regulations.
>>70587147
Make A-10 Warthog ammo.
I know it's supposed to be depleted uranium, but fuck Geneva.
>>70587865
threw the dice; got lucky
set a bad precedent
>>70585957
>The entire US is vulnerable to tsunamis
>>70584518
Accurate. Its absurd to expect a capitalist industry to regulate itself. I don't give a shit how free the market is. All I care about how competitive it is because that leads to better deals for me as a consumer.
>>70584518
>falling for the Three Mile Meme
Wasn't even a bad accident, coal mines have had more devastating accidents. Simply because it was nuclear people lose their shit. I mean no one died, and there was little link to increased cancers, simply bullshit spewed from anti-nuclear non peer reviewed journals. Meanwhile take SL-1 a Government reactor, blew up and killed three. And guess what? Under the power of the private system TMI-1 is still going strong.
>>70587865
So why is the Jobs back in Detroit/F;int?
>>70587147
>bury in saltmines
or
>use our new technology that lets us reuse part of depleted cells
or
>allow new forms of nuclear fission like thorium based
>>70585957
wow u r so smart I never heard of that :D
>>70585444
>implying LFTRs arent the safer than "green" energy
>>70584518
Capitalism is the worst economic system except for all the other forms.
Tell me, are bailouts a socialist or capitalist creation? How does corruption cease to exist with more government?
Everything is a balance.
>>70584518
How are Asian sweatshops worse than the alternative, which is Asians dying of starvation?
How is the Ford Pinto any worse than the Yugo? Because no one was held accountable for the Yugo?
The housing bubble was caused by the government pressuring banks to give out NINJA loans.
Why is Three Mile Island a negative?
Isn't AIG the fault of the government?
>>70587632
Sucks for them. Why bother wasting time caring about them?
>>70589425
No anon, it couldn't be the government at all! They only hope for our best intentions!
