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Occasionally forget people genuinely think capitalism is thousands of years old

One time I was talking about Robin Hood with some coworkers and one guy was like “he was bad because the people he helped learned to expect handouts” and I wanted to be like… okay can you explain how that flawed capitalist propaganda applies to feudalism

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reminder that capitalism was literally invented in the 16th century

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That’s an exaggeration. What was invented in the 16th century was mercantilism. Capitalism really dates for the beginning of the nineteenth century, with the rise of industry and cash crops over artisans and merchants. Vulture capitalism, with the notion that companies have no duties other than generating profit, is even younger.

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Capitalism is only 200 years old and I have to say, they have not been an impressive 200 years

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I think a lot of this comes from the fact that most people don’t know the formal definition of capitalism. We all know the word, we’ve all seen the jokes, but very few people bother to actually define it unless they’re talking about political theory and philosophy, so it’s easy to end up with the impression that Capitalism = Money Can Be Exchanged For Goods And Services.

Capitalism is the economic system where most of the means of production (i.e. everything people need to have to make the stuff that everyone wants) are owned by private individuals or corporations, who then hire people to provide the labor necessary to produce things, with the intent of selling the output at a profit. It’s the difference between “you’re a carpenter and you make a chair and you sell it” and “you’re Richard Q. Richington who owns a chair factory, and you pay people to sell the chairs you paid other people to make and then all the excess money goes back to you.” There have been Richard Q. Richingtons on and off throughout history, but that being the norm for every single industry is a pretty recent development.

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“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.“

― Ursula K. Le Guin

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i'm celine, this is what's in my bag i live in vegas so, schfwoo it's hot dog food, i got a little dog, 2 pounds. beautiful, madison. mentos shakeshake tongue thing sometimes exhale hmmm (suspect) hand sanitizer is great hand cream, it's always great. it's one of my favourite. extremely french accent byredo, blanche. sniff ahhh lipstick i've got my mown microphone just in case something happens people ask me to sing appy birthday, im ready. singing uuunforgettableeee~~ you know, it takes pause to grab the pool balls a lot of balls. to get the microphone and pretend that are you are- on. singing and really into it do you believeee in life after love~ suddenly pissed i believe. *glares at camera* it takes a lot of courage to carry your own vip frickin badge like this… it's because when i purchase stuff- is it really you and i'm like. singing off key extremely loud ANYMOOOOOOOOOOORE it happens to me a lot, they don't believe it's me, so what i do is like i take my old phone, and i'm like, ((extremely québécoisly) ok), i'm gonna get you arrested, and i'm calling nine frickin one one, and i- i'm asking for help. hangs up phone loudly and by the way, it's zdry in las vegas…. stay moist. singing just one more dayyyy- oop crashes

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The Murderbot Diaries are a power fantasy about being aromantic and still developing extremely important dedicated emotionally intimate partnerships where you are a top priority in a person's life, equal to their other family or romantic attachments despite your own emotional difficulties. And having guns in your arms

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Making Found Footage Pride Flags to scare the TERFs and bigots!!

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More of them!

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