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There’s no shortage of content online calling out the absurdities of modern capitalism. From mind-numbing 9-to-5 routines to student loan nightmares and rent that costs more than your will to live, people are fed up, and they’re getting creative about it.
And we feel our roundup might just be the most relatable one yet. We stumbled upon a collection of memes and posts from the hilarious and brutally honest Facebook page “Guillotines For Billionaires 2020.” Keep scrolling to see which post speaks to your soul or your empty wallet.
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Jerome Lenovo 7 months ago
i want to upvote this one 10 ten times. I guess elon could help me with his knowledge about voting machines (maga lurker is raging...yeah i know, woke yadiyadiyada, just downvote and gf*y)
Capitalism, at its core, is an economic system where private individuals or businesses own most of the goods and services. People invest in companies, hire workers, and ideally, make a tidy profit. The workers, on the other hand, show up, put in hours, and get wages. But they don’t own what they work on; they just keep it running. It’s kind of like borrowing a kitchen to cook dinner, but not getting to keep the meal. That’s the basic structure of capitalism: owners call the shots, and workers keep it going.
What drives capitalism? One word: demand. The more people want something, the more companies rush to make it and cash in. It’s all about supply meeting that demand in a wild market dance. Unlike planned economies, where the government decides who gets what, here it’s more like survival of the most clever. And if someone finds a way to sell water in a rainstorm? Capitalism says, “Go for it!” It’s messy, unpredictable, and very human.
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Nathan Lewis 7 months ago
The nerve of them to pull that when the whole sunita williams saga was like 2 months ago
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Donna Peluda 7 months ago
No he couldn't, he would just boast and lie about how he invented health care
Now, let’s be fair, capitalism has some solid perks. It gets things moving fast, encourages fresh ideas, and often lowers prices because of competition. If you’ve ever scored a cheap phone on sale, you can thank capitalism. It also has a knack for pushing people to invent and innovate. Wages and living standards tend to rise overall, at least in theory. When it works, it really works (until it doesn’t).
But oh, the cons. It tends to divide the world into “haves” and “have-nots” faster than you can say inequality. Big profits sometimes mean big pollution and corner-cutting. Workers might feel like cogs in a giant profit-making machine. Then there’s crony capitalism, where shady backroom deals start replacing fair competition.
There are all kinds of capitalism floating around. Take oligarchic capitalism, where a few super-rich folks run both the economy and the government. It’s like Monopoly, but the board is rigged from the start.
The term comes from Greek: “oligarchy” means rule by the few, and it’s the opposite of democracy. Think private jets, political influence, and champagne brunches you’ll never be invited to. It’s capitalism with a very exclusive guest list.
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Huddo's sister 7 months ago
My state in Australia has just reinstated the State Electricity Corporation because the decades without a publicly owned one have not been good.
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Andrew Keir 7 months ago
Maybe because businesses *have* to pay rent and suppliers, but see workers as a variable they can control? It's the (regrettable) pecking order, in their minds.
Then there's state-guided capitalism, where the government steps in and directs which industries to grow. It’s like having a manager who micromanages your every move but still expects you to turn a profit. It’s capitalism with a playbook, and the referee is also your boss. It works for some, confuses many, and keeps economists busy arguing.
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Bob Brooce 7 months ago
The general concept seems simple enough that even dumb people shouldn't be confused. untitled-6...2efef1.jpg 
Corporate capitalism? That’s the version where giant companies dominate everything, from your grocery list to your social media feed. Everything from the ads you see to the cereal you eat is carefully orchestrated by mega-corps. Sometimes it feels like you’re living in a giant commercial. Spoiler: you are.
Entrepreneurial capitalism is the fun, scrappy cousin of the bunch. It celebrates dreamers, doers, and garage inventors who build empires from nothing. Think tech startups, lemonade stands, and Shark Tank pitches. It’s risky, chaotic, and a bit romanticized. But it keeps hope alive that anyone, anywhere, can hit it big. If you’ve got hustle, this is your playground.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 7 months ago
I had a 1br house for $285/mo in 2001. Not kidding. It did mean I had to live in a really s****y town though.
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Tim Gearing 7 months ago
Read the quote “ First they came” by Pastor Martin Niemöller 1892-1984.
Then there’s laissez-faire capitalism. It’s all about minimal interference, maximum freedom. Great if you’re a business owner, maybe less fun if you're a worker hoping for some rights. This is capitalism in its wildest, most unfiltered form. Imagine a free-for-all marketplace where anything goes, as long as someone’s willing to pay.
And finally, we have welfare capitalism, where businesses or governments actually care (a little). Think health insurance, social safety nets, and workplace benefits sprinkled on top of capitalism’s usual chaos. It tries to keep things humane while still playing the market game. It’s not perfect, but it’s like capitalism with a heart emoji. The goal? Make money, but don’t crush everyone in the process.
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Arabiata Arabiata 7 months ago (edited)
It's hard to fool an educated, confident woman. But these qualities come with age, generally over 25 years.
So, what are your thoughts on capitalism? Did any of these quirky takes make you laugh or scratch your head? Whether you love it, hate it, or just live in it, these posts definitely give you something to think about. Let us know in the comments if you’ve had your own “capitalism is wild” moment.
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Surly Scot 7 months ago
You guys ready to rejoin the colonies yet? I think it's the safer bet at this point.
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Earonn - 7 months ago
What are s**t right wing white guys to do otherwise? Put in some effort? Hey, their daddies and granddaddies had bangmaids without having to be nice or remotely decent, that's what they want, too! Every s**t today can be explained by weak people who used to be privileged losing their s**t at having to honestly compete with others.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 7 months ago
Elon Musk recently offered a million dollars to anyone who can come up with a wat to capture carbon. Like the dumb@ss never heard of TREES!
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Jerome Lenovo 7 months ago
praise the lord .... thank you for your service. Seems familiar ? Yeah, its part of the scam, making you obedient.
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Jerome Lenovo 7 months ago
but after that, we were trolled by the rich, to be nice with mofos. Now the problem is back, because we were nice with the tu*rds
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Bob Brooce 7 months ago (edited)
It would be far worse if the real SSA was as bad at math as the twitter user. The actual *error* rate is about 0.625% which, if you turn it into a regular number instead of a percentage, is 0.00625. The overpayment of $72 billion listed elsewhere is for a period of 7 years. That's about $10 billion per year, but about 2/3 gets recovered, so the real loss is roughly $3.5 billion per year or about $10.60 per US resident. The 2025 military budget is $2700 for every resident, and the various losses there are a bit more than 0.625%. Of course it would be nice to reduce the errors in all programs, but only moron would try to do it with a chainsaw.
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Jerome Lenovo 7 months ago
in the tu*rd logic, yes. Maga will applause that. Because that statement is : woke/fakenews/unamerican (choose your bs)
les 7 months ago
america, so terrified to be called woke, they sleepwalked into a dictatorship.
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Uncle Schmickle 7 months ago
American industry and manufacturing basically expired 40+ years ago. Does the current Government think it can undo 40 years of neglect and rust by big tariffs on all imports and rebuild ?
tw 72 7 months ago
Exactly. The US currently has no physical factories, engineers, designers, testers, line workers, support staff, logistics, resources, vendors, trade partners...and once we get all those things, we will produce things that Americans can't afford and other countries won't buy. But, hey, progress - right?
Load More Replies... Tabitha 7 months ago
After thirty years of companies sending manufacturing offshore to lower costs (because their supposed “profits” aren’t the result of selling more and better product, they’re merely the result of cost-cutting), throwing countless numbers of workers out of jobs and completely killing and gutting company towns all over the country? They think they’re going to easily bring it all back in one fell swoop? If they are, then they’re going to have to go through a complete 180 degree change in ethics, attitudes, and business practices to do it. American workers will not put up with the low paid sweatshop slave conditions that workers in the third world countries those companies set up factories in put up with. So they’ll have to get used to lower profit margins, because they won’t be able to cheat their American workers like they cheated their third world workers.
Bowie 923 7 months ago
I already do! I moved to Beijing 4 years ago. Best decision ever. My style of living improved 10-fold because my cost of living was cut so significantly that I enjoy luxuries here that I couldn't afford in 'Merika and I can save towards my retirement plus send money monthly to my elderly parents in California & Texas (who can't afford a comfortable retirement due to expensive daily necessities). Granted, I earn more than local citizens but even my Chinese friends and co-workers make enough to live well and their parents (some of whom are only in their late 50s or 60s) get guaranteed monthly incomes. Real social security.
Load More Replies... Not-a-Clue (she/her) 7 months ago
Just heard on the news that Apple are planning to move production of their iPhones from China because of tariffs and uncertainty about the future. But not to the USA, to India.
Vikramaditya King 7 months ago
This guy wants to kick the can down the street. Let the Z+ generation deal with China.
Lee Gilliland 7 months ago
That's the thinking. Notice I made no comment on if it was correct.
Eduardo 7 months ago
Yes, because the tariff imposed on China imports will make the US produced laptop cheaper. Point of a tariff is to protect locally manufactured goods from being greatly underpriced by an import.
Verena 7 months ago
Firstly, you either didn't read or did not understand what OP wrote. Secondly, the US have no manufacturing facilities and are kicking the cheapest workforce out of the country. So all costs for building these manufacturing facilities and the salary a white US citizen demands will be factored in in the price of locally made products, with still imported parts. If consumers are willing to pay for that, you are set.
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Verena 7 months ago (edited)
Well, you pay either with money or time. In our European village a lot of stuff is free, but only because people don't expect payment and invest their leisure time to create parks, playgrounds, festivals for others to enjoy for free. But of course they have day jobs (or a pension), that pays their clothing, housing, gasoline, etc
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Multa Nocte 7 months ago
I'm sure there a few free in France we could send you. After all, you took the Statue of Liberty as a gift, right?
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JB 7 months ago
When I was a landlord, I asked outgoing tenants if I could give their contact information to prospective tenants because it never felt right that I would demand references but they couldn’t. I still shake my head at how surprised prospective tenants were when I gave them previous tenants’ contact info and said, “please, feel free to ask these people what I’m like as a landlord. You deserve to know how I will treat you just as I deserve to know how you will treat my property.”
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Jerome Lenovo 7 months ago
you've been warned long time ago. Too busy praising cops, army and religions, like in Iran. (that downvote button gonna explode)
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keyboardtek 7 months ago
Look closely and those economic downturns happened soon after a Republican was elected president.
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Tropical Tarot 7 months ago
It's a meme. Most memes don't have citations. However if you can't see that what is being done by the current administration hurts only the most disenfranchised among our population, then you are a part of the problem.
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Jerome Lenovo 7 months ago
the french technique ..... you're welcome america, de rien, ça fait plaisir (meanwhile maga lurker smell my finger before the downvote.)
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keyboardtek 7 months ago
The successful democratic socialist Scandinavian countries all have a population that is actively involved in running their government. Americans barely even know the branches of their government. They have a media owned by their oligarchs to make sure they are uninformed.
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Tabitha 7 months ago (edited)
What’s really ironic about this is that the greatest artists weren’t rich at all. Some had patrons helping g them with rent and food, but the rest were poor and suffered. They also had a fire in their belly that led them to work harder and achieve their genius. Granted, some of them weren’t very good, but those who were good were amazing. That’s a drive that doesn’t exist when your belly is full and you’re shielded from suffering. No, not experiencing that kind of suffering means that their “art” will be mediocre at best, s**t at worst (and way more of it will be s**t than mediocre), and will only be bought by their rich friends and family, who have money to waste, more from just a show of support than from true appreciation of their artistic genius, which they don’t have.
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Tobias Reaper 7 months ago
bears only attack for food or if provoked or if you come between a mama bear and her cubs men and i use that word lightly that attack women do it for no reason so its a good comparison. If we want women to stop seeing us as potential predators then we need to do better call out a******s that give us a bad name.
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Surly Scot 7 months ago
Clarification: she was arrested the next day when she was seen throwing the fetal remains in a bag into a dumpster, and was arrested for "abuse of a corpse". Autopsy determined fetus was not alive at time of birth, so charges were dropped. Still a crazy headline, but needed to clarify she wasn't arrested just for having a miscarriage. That's not a crime....yet.
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Yayheterogeneity 7 months ago
Out of respect for the sufferings of people nothing should be compared to the H*******t. Each and every tragedy, exploitation, t*****e, etc. stands alone but is unbearable nonetheless. This tragedy composed by the orange t**d is no different and everyone should resist. He and his allies need to be stopped and the whole politics should be reinvented in more egalitarian ways. Bring back humanity! Stop exploitation and greed!
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Jerome Lenovo 7 months ago (edited)
in france lots of woman start doing p**n to feed their child. Patriarchy/capitalism is winning. But hey, praise the lord, be obedient. (haters gonna hate, maga lurker you're not alone anymore for downvoting)
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Depressed Lesbian(she/they/he) 7 months ago
Work is necessary to maintain the home, but to see workers as a commodity is to devalue the working class- the 99%
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Pferdchen 7 months ago
CECOT - Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo. A maximum security prison, supposedly for terrorists. We have tolerated the "extraordinary rendition" of the war on terror and now people in America have to worry about being shipped off to a maximum security prison with no due process.
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Andrew Keir 7 months ago
What happened to January and February? Also, graphs with no numbers on the vertical axis are meaningless. And, it's still April ... The background is cute but this graph is still horrible.
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CK 7 months ago
It's a myth that less regulation = more capitalist. The free market works great, but it requires the rule of law to prevent fraud and theft, and for the government to handle externalities. Allowing the corporations to defraud and steal from the people is not capitalist.
Marnie 7 months ago
A totally "free" capitalist society ends up being a feudal society.
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In 200 years, the most critical issue that people will point to (if there are still books) is that the events of the last two decades meant we didn't address climate change. That will be the lasting legacy of what is happening in the US right now. It is THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE. But we can't address it when the rich and powerful control things and the US has gone from a guided democracy to a f*****t country.
Cammy Mack 7 months ago
It's all destined to collapse, and collapse it will. There's no hope in any political or economic or religious ideology, so these people that think that "their side" is the right side is laughable.
Lee Kunkle 7 months ago
The only way our government can truly make meaningful progress is to impose term limits on Congress. Congress spends their entire careers making decisions to protect their own careers and wealth.
Richard Smith 7 months ago
How do I protest capitalism? I'm Gen X. I just accept it...bury that anger a little deeper every time...and drink heavily.
KrazyChiMama 7 months ago
Vote for the right candidates and issues to start. Make informed decisions. Don’t follow the masses. If enough of us vote this way we can elect change.
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Gertrude VonSpitzbart 7 months ago
I'm surprised there hasn't been more Luigi copycat killings.
Jerzy Janeczko 7 months ago
More I read of the childish perspective communicated here the more I understand how delusional the younger generation is. Grow up all, you are ultimately responsible for yourselves all within the same rules. Get over yourselves and work harder at things that are truly rewarding not pie in sky wishful c**p.
Corvus 7 months ago (edited)
Carl, you're thinking in black-and-white. Just because Lithuania rejected Soviet-era communism does not mean they can't embrace the infinitely different modern European socialism (which is still rooted in capitalism, but is more humane).
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CK 7 months ago
It's a myth that less regulation = more capitalist. The free market works great, but it requires the rule of law to prevent fraud and theft, and for the government to handle externalities. Allowing the corporations to defraud and steal from the people is not capitalist.
Marnie 7 months ago
A totally "free" capitalist society ends up being a feudal society.
Load More Replies... Marnie 7 months ago
In 200 years, the most critical issue that people will point to (if there are still books) is that the events of the last two decades meant we didn't address climate change. That will be the lasting legacy of what is happening in the US right now. It is THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE. But we can't address it when the rich and powerful control things and the US has gone from a guided democracy to a f*****t country.
Cammy Mack 7 months ago
It's all destined to collapse, and collapse it will. There's no hope in any political or economic or religious ideology, so these people that think that "their side" is the right side is laughable.
Lee Kunkle 7 months ago
The only way our government can truly make meaningful progress is to impose term limits on Congress. Congress spends their entire careers making decisions to protect their own careers and wealth.
Richard Smith 7 months ago
How do I protest capitalism? I'm Gen X. I just accept it...bury that anger a little deeper every time...and drink heavily.
KrazyChiMama 7 months ago
Vote for the right candidates and issues to start. Make informed decisions. Don’t follow the masses. If enough of us vote this way we can elect change.
Load More Replies... Gertrude VonSpitzbart 7 months ago
I'm surprised there hasn't been more Luigi copycat killings.
Jerzy Janeczko 7 months ago
More I read of the childish perspective communicated here the more I understand how delusional the younger generation is. Grow up all, you are ultimately responsible for yourselves all within the same rules. Get over yourselves and work harder at things that are truly rewarding not pie in sky wishful c**p.
Corvus 7 months ago (edited)
Carl, you're thinking in black-and-white. Just because Lithuania rejected Soviet-era communism does not mean they can't embrace the infinitely different modern European socialism (which is still rooted in capitalism, but is more humane).
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