People On This Facebook Page Are Mocking Capitalism, And Here Are 40 Of Their Best Memes And Posts
Capitalism can be a complex and weighty subject. But that doesn't mean we can't approach it with a joke or two. For that, let's take a look at the content of a Facebook page called 'Memes For A Better Tomorrow.'
From the endless pursuit of profit to the ever-growing cycle of consumption, the page invites its 51,000 followers to look at serious, nuanced topics with a dash of levity, so we thought it would be interesting to join them and do the same.
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Avocado toast has never been a problem for me. I sodding hate avocadoes.
Under capitalism, private individuals or businesses own capital goods. At the same time, business owners (capitalists) employ workers (labor) who only receive wages; labor does not own the means of production but only uses them on behalf of the owners of the capital.
The production of goods and services is based on supply and demand in the general market—known as a market economy—rather than through central planning—known as a planned economy or command economy.
Should be a lot higher. The saddest thing is that many people in the US who cannot afford proper healthcare actually still support the system because at least thee are some people worse off than they are. They honestly feel happier simply knowing that they're not at the bottom of the pile.
Tgoody probably has rich parents and lives in a little mansion in their yard, being very proud that he finished the college they paid for and that he got a top tier job at their company.
The purest form of capitalism is free market or laissez-faire capitalism. There, private individuals are unrestrained. They determine where to invest, what to produce or sell, and at which prices to exchange goods and services. The laissez-faire marketplace operates without checks or controls.
In reality, most countries practice a mixed capitalist system that includes some degree of government regulation of business and ownership of select industries.
Billionaires shouldn't exist, because it means at some point you've screwed someone over, either by not paying them enough or by not paying a fair share of taxes
They say it like those American suburbs with identical houses sprawling for kilometers are somehow less depressing
Industrial capitalism usually benefited bigger parts of society rather than just the aristocratic class. Wages increased, helped greatly by the formation of unions. The standard of living also rose with the glut of affordable products being mass-produced. All of this led to the formation of a middle class and began to lift more and more people from the lower classes to swell its ranks.
Nope. My landlord provides a to me valuable service. Within one year he paid roughly £ 3,000 for the chimney repair and £ 6,000 for a new boiler. I don't have to have savings for such costs. Plus, I can easily move out without having to worry about losing thousands of £ compared with what I paid for a flat. Buying / renting are different things for people with different needs. Oh, there are bad landlords? yeah, there are also HOAs and s****y neighbours.
The expansion of the financial sector accompanied the rise of industrial capitalism. Banks had previously served as warehouses for valuables, clearinghouses for long-distance trade, or lenders to nobles and governments. But eventually, they came to serve the needs of everyday commerce and the intermediation of credit for large, long-term investment projects. By the 20th century, as stock exchanges became increasingly public and investment vehicles opened up to more individuals, some economists named a variation on the system: financial capitalism.
Too true! My kid had an asthma attack, and the American hospital insisted my kid needed to be admitted because steroids were given. 3 days and $25k later ( they gave too much albuterol which made my kid's heart go into afib, so we needed a pediatric cardiologists not on on insurance, but we had no choice) my kid is alive but..... In France, 2 years later, same kid, asthma emergency, the French ER gave my kid steroids, an hour with albuterol treatment, was sent home with the advice that if the problem persisted, return to the ER. Cost €17. My child is still alive and hasn't required any more er treatment for asthma.
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I know you're being facetious, but, work on the delivery. The New Testament sections of the Bible make a lotta claims about what "Jesus said", but was written centuries after his death by people who weren't alive when he supposedly made these statements. For all we know, Jesus might have said "blessed is mint as it will inherit the world", and as a gardener who's been trying to rid my yard of the scourge of mint, I think Jesus might have been giving advice to gardeners. Let the mint live as it is.
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Honestly I think what keeps us thinking this really has to do with "sense" of fairness. To ever make the change will mean and entire generation (or 2 or 3) of humanity, will have to collectively decide that even though they had to struggle and work and fight to get what they have....the next generation deserves to get it for free. It's not that different than the 30 year employee who makes $20/hr, seeing an 18yo kid get hired for $22/hr, and says "I want the same, that's not fair". I'm not saying we shouldn't strive to make that change, to accept that "better for our children" means "my neighbor's children should have better than I had too". But I think this is the mental hangup we struggle to pass.
Not sure that's a "natural" line of thinking. Reading this post reminded me of being taught exactly those ideas in school (I'm a boomer). Working as a housing paralegal for legal aid the past 5 years has opened my eyes to how much we were constantly bombarded with propaganda and straight up lies in school. I'm ashamed of how many years it took for me to really examine my thoughts on a lot of subjects, only to realize so many thoughts that my brain produces are a direct result of the propaganda and lies taught to me by the school system, television and the church. Americans think we're free- we're just well controlled by- wait for it- propaganda and lies. The internet granting personal access to people from all walks of life, in every country, is changing that - when people are willing to learn. It's really hard to accept that you've been lied to by practically everything and everyone around you for your entire life. I think that's a big part of why so many boomers are close minded.
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It's been interesting to see in this fentanyl crisis just how many of the elites own children are dying from buying 👻 chat drugs. Interesting indeed. Sadly, capitalism placed most of the people shooting up on the streets. Most started with minor injuries but through over prescribing of opiates created drug addicts. Capitalism could eff up a wet dream.
See also: the costs of having needle exchanges and safe injection sites, vs. the cost of people ODing, or getting diseases and dying, or getting diseases that are very expensive to live with for the rest of their lives.
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It's the same reasoning Americans use to justify not having universal healthcare. The US spend MORE per capita propping up its terrible system than any country with socialised medicine does, yet people still can't get past the fact that their tax dollars will be used to pay for someone else's treatment even though the exact same thing happens using private insurance, it's just your after tax dollars.
Exactly, the same people who b***h about paying for universal healthcare are also really gungho about locking everyone up for minor offenses which costs a fortune, but heaven forbid we pay to put a roof over someone's head if "they haven't earned it"!
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The majority of us are x number of paychecks or benefit payments from being out on the streets living the lives that so many of us look down on. Even if you can't or don't want to give money to homeless people it costs nothing to say hello or just acknowledge their existence.
I'd like to know what they mean by give them a place to live. A house, a bunk in a hostel, a tent in a park? What level of support, for how long? Does it address the other elephant in the room - that there is a lot of mental illness in the homeless population. So any housing solution needs to bear that in mind too. Not saying they shouldn't do it, but it all still needs funding that has to come from somewhere.
This is what happens when you take care of them... https://youtu.be/pMALoEd5G60
Honestly a lot of people have tried to help some homeless. There was a documentary on PBS about it. Set in New York. They tried to help them, for them housing, a job or on disability. I remember this one lady was schizophrenic and she stayed at the house for like two months but after that went back to the streets. They came to check on the every couple of weeks. With some nothing is going to change their homelessness. But yes shelter and food. Help them. But also watch for the scammers begging for money. Rich off people willing to help.
No one asked to be born. At the least we’re entitled to food, water, and shelter.
Uhmerikka in a nutshell. Always preferring cutting off nose to spite face.
Yes, the homeless people who break into my apt bldg, destroy the laundry machines for a few quarters, intimidate female tenants, leave garbage and needles everywhere, and use the garbage room as a toilet are just wonderful people.
That’s because healthy food is MUCH more expensive! It’s one of the main driving factors of the obesity epidemic
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By incentivizing entrepreneurs to reallocate away resources from unprofitable channels and into areas where consumers value them more, capitalism has proven a highly effective vehicle for economic growth.
More and better goods became cheaply accessible to wide populations again, raising standards of living in previously unthinkable ways. As a result, many political theorists and economists argue that capitalism is the most efficient and productive system of exchange.
But a downside of capitalism is its ability to corrupt. Crony capitalism (sometimes called cronyism) refers to a capitalist society that is based on the close relationships between business people and the state. Instead of success being determined by a free market and the rule of law, it can depend on favoritism that is shown by the government in the form of tax breaks, grants, and other incentives.
And forcing workers to come into an office for a job they can easily get done remotely is about the office space rental market.
In practice, this is the dominant form of capitalism worldwide, due to the powerful incentives both faced by governments to extract resources by taxing, regulating, and fostering rent-seeking activity, and capitalist businesses trying to increase profits by obtaining subsidies, limiting competition, and erecting barriers to entry. In effect, these forces represent a kind of supply and demand for government intervention in the economy, which arises from the design of the system.
If you never stop hustling, accept multiple jobs, go above and beyond and dedicate all your waking hours to work, then, one day, you boss might go to space!
Critics argue that capitalism leads to a significant loss of political, democratic and economic power for the majority of the population because it creates large concentrations of money and property in the hands of a relatively small minority (the elite or the power elite), leading, according to them, to very large and increasing wealth and income inequalities between the two groups.
Lets take a break from this depressing talk about capitalism, and play mariokart instead!
Reminds me of that comic where a capitalist, a worker and an immigrant are sitting at the table. Capitalist has 9 cookies, worker has one, immigrant has zero. The capitalist leans to the worker and whispers: "Watch out, that immigrant wants to steal your cookie!"
And while 57% of the American public continues to view capitalism favorably, that is 8 percentage points lower than in 2019 (65%), a 2022 national survey by the Pew Research Center revealed.
However, its main "competitor" isn't doing too well either. Just 36% of U.S. adults say they find socialism to be somewhat (30%) or very (6%) positive, down from 42% who viewed it positively in May 2019. (Six in ten today say they view socialism negatively, including one-third who view it very negatively.)
The egg memes are in and out, it’s getting back to the normal inflation prices
That's the other side of the landlords-are-bad debate: bad landlords wouldn't have a chance if gvmts would provide enough council housing. Oh, but that would a) require a gvmt that doesn't consist of rabid righting arseholes (hello, Tories), and b) raise taxes by £/$ 1.50 / month, so people would scream in horror about "supporting lazy fvcks" etc. pp. Gosh, one gets so tired of this.
Landlords provide housing as much as scalpers provide concert tickets.
My mom says that no one who saw "Hair" in the theater gets to complain about millenials.
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I genuinly don't understand the outrage about capitalism... What's the alternative? Communism, Anarchy, Monarchy? The problem is not capitalism, it's human greed that will come up in every single economic system you make.
Capitalism is amazingly good at satisfying desires. But our desires are pretty petty. We let capitalism TELL us what to desire. Like two inches from these words.
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The problem is that we need a new -ism. Capitalism rewards exploitative practices. Our technology makes such cruelty unnecessary. The amount of public service related automation that could be put into a city for the cost of a luxury yacht would be fantastic. Yet we use technology to try to sell you more junk you don't need.
Well, being treated fairly and wok abolition, are not even in the same sport. The problem with the attempts to better our world, is that they're always hijacked by some lazy-a*s or some profiteer.
Yes capitalism is terrible but do any of the people complaining about decide to stop being a consumer? Do you raise your own food? Buy clothes at second hand /thrift stores? Try to buy only used products or make your own? Live off the grid? No so you can b***h about it if you are participating in it.
I go to thrift stores, use solar power, buy tons of second hand, make and repurpose a lot of stuff (am trying to grow some food) and I still have to be part of this system since I live in the U.S. I will still complain about it.
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They can afford to take a vacation here since they have 4 or 5 weeks off paid and a little disposable income because their health care and education are paid for by the government.
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I genuinly don't understand the outrage about capitalism... What's the alternative? Communism, Anarchy, Monarchy? The problem is not capitalism, it's human greed that will come up in every single economic system you make.
Capitalism is amazingly good at satisfying desires. But our desires are pretty petty. We let capitalism TELL us what to desire. Like two inches from these words.
Load More Replies... The problem is that we need a new -ism. Capitalism rewards exploitative practices. Our technology makes such cruelty unnecessary. The amount of public service related automation that could be put into a city for the cost of a luxury yacht would be fantastic. Yet we use technology to try to sell you more junk you don't need.
Well, being treated fairly and wok abolition, are not even in the same sport. The problem with the attempts to better our world, is that they're always hijacked by some lazy-a*s or some profiteer.
Yes capitalism is terrible but do any of the people complaining about decide to stop being a consumer? Do you raise your own food? Buy clothes at second hand /thrift stores? Try to buy only used products or make your own? Live off the grid? No so you can b***h about it if you are participating in it.
I go to thrift stores, use solar power, buy tons of second hand, make and repurpose a lot of stuff (am trying to grow some food) and I still have to be part of this system since I live in the U.S. I will still complain about it.
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