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.
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.
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.
