‘Anti Capitalist’: 30 Times People Realized That Modern Capitalism Is Starting To Look Ridiculous
Income and wealth inequality continues to deepen, prices are soaring, inflation looms its shadowy fangs, and the aftershocks from the so-called Great Resignation are still echoing across the economy. It’s no wonder that a lot of people are scared for their future, are dissatisfied and critical of the way the economy is structured. Some believe that capitalism has become too radical and devolved into corporatism and unchecked soulless consumerism. For them, capitalism has become Public Enemy Number One.
One Instagram page that captures this sentiment is the ‘Anti Capitalist’ project that has amassed just over 173k followers. The founder of the page, who wittily describes themselves as having “no basic understanding of economics or politics,” explains that they’re fighting capitalism, racism, and fascism with the content that they post.
Scroll down for the most on-point anti-capitalist memes and don’t forget to upvote the ones that resonated the most with you, dear Pandas. Got any interesting insights about current financial happenings and economic developments? Share your thoughts in the comment section.
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I liked this so much that I went to the source to upvote it there too.
Financial expert Rick Orford explained to Bored Panda a while back that extreme capitalism and excessive greed are the consequences of a large enough part of the population that’s willing to take risks. The core problem, therefore, is greed. Or rather, too much of it.
“Greed is widely accepted to be the reason for the two largest financial crises in the last century; namely 1929 and 2008. It also creates the income inequality that’s largely seen in the United States. Indeed, while everyone, in theory, has an equal opportunity to flourish, the scales seem to tip to those with the most money," he said.
THIS!!! As an American, I am saddened by the fact that we have an extremely high rate of homelessness. We evict and destroy tent site where the homeless live and do nothing to replace or help them. There are many many empty homes and old factories that could be used to house them and improve their lives yet they still set empty. Its disgusting. I do what I can to help in my community but we need to be helping at a national level. These people are humans and citizens of our country yet are cast aside and left to die in the elements. It just sad on so many levels.
My friend once told me, "You can't budget your way out of your income bracket." It was some of the best advice I'd ever gotten.
“[Capitalism] allows folks like you and me to succeed by creating or investing in businesses. Indeed, one looking to borrow money from the banks today won’t have to pay much for the loan. As such, it encourages growth. However, extreme capitalism creates a scenario where greed overtakes reason, and it risks the financial system," financial expert Rick told Bored Panda.
According to the expert, social democracy, also known as socialism, lies at the other end of the scale from capitalism. Social democracies tax their citizens more than capitalistic countries, however, in return, the people have easy and free (or very cheap) access to vital services.
I can already hear a comment of a healthcareless, ideologically blinded billionaire supporter: “Oooooh, a socialist!”
"Citizens are given services such as free and (easily) accessible healthcare, child care, social welfare, etc. Conversely, highly capitalistic societies charge for these services, making it incredibly challenging for the poor," he said.
Rick pointed out that capitalism gives anyone the tools to flourish and grow. What’s more, nobody should be under the illusion that the wealthy are always making a profit. Businesspeople take large risks and can suffer very heavy financial losses if things don’t pan out the way they expect them to. Problems arise, however, when major companies and social media conglomerates start influencing how people think.
people today still believe in the 'being poor is an attitude' misconception it's hilariously unfortunate
“Today, the news is largely distributed by some of the largest American corporations: Google, Facebook, and Twitter. Think Brexit or the 2016 American Presidential election,” the expert warned.
Though, theoretically, capitalism helps ordinary people sell their products and open up their own businesses, the reality is tougher: they have to compete with established industry giants.
I was talking with a family member about war reparations the other day, and ended up googling if the US had ever paid reparations for any of the wars they've been in. Turns out, the only reparations the US has ever paid, was to surviving members of the Japanese internment camps (in the 80s, I think), and to some people who were sterilised against their will in Florida. The US is extremely bad at taking responsibility for it's past bad acts
reminds one of the numerous times the international court of justice brought verdicts conclusively against the us, but they just ignored it and did nothing
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My dad thinks he can somehow justify everything that's happened to Native Americans by saying s**t along the lines of "They were pagans, and God's not gonna protect pagans, it's their fault" and I so badly wanna say something like "You're half Native American, get your s**t together and start standing up for your own people damnnit"
Yikes. Humans did that to the Native Americans. Nothing to do with any god. When something bad happens to him or people he loves, what justification does he come up with for his God not being there for him? Has he not lost a loved one early or in sad circumstances? Faced difficult times? How does he make that work in his head? Even those who believe surely can't think God approved of humans deciding quite on their own to do some truly s h i t t y things to another bunch of people leading their lives according to their own beliefs and customs. Sorry. Thankfully, we don't have to follow in our parents footsteps and take on their attitudes. I was 8 when I realised mine made mistakes and didn't know everything. We can only try to get them to listen but aim to be better ourselves. No disrespect.
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Or how we made Hawaii a state. ANOTHER one of those TRUTHS Muricans are deliberately kept from hearing about.
For everyone who didn't bother to google it? Holocaust: etymology: Middle English (think Chaucer) got it from Old French (think Chanson d'Roland) got it from Latin, who got it from the Greek, and it simply means "all burnt" or "wholly burnt", and was never used by Jews themselves, since Hebrew *has* a word for "burnt offering", and it's not holocaust. Jews use the word holocaust to refer to the genocide enacted against them by the Nazis, in part b/c of th e use of cremation in many cases, although not all the dead were in fact cremated. Holocaust, the word, is also used in a more generic sense for any great big huge-a** destruction, eg nuclear holocaust.
Downvoted for etymology. that's new! Thank you! :-)
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The Holocaust museum was done from private funding. We should have museums dedicated to all Native American and First Nation peoples that suffered or were lost. To the Hawaiian people and all they suffered and lost. There should be many covering those enslaved in this country. But please do not dismiss the Holocaust in the same breath. The government certainly isn't going to build them so it is up to us to fund them and build them. They need to be build, their stories need to be known. All four of these major times in history are being erased by idiots who say none of them ever happened.
Thing is, museums are meant for entertainment and displaying artifacts of the the past. Atrocities are a bit taboo to be commemorated by being turned into museums. Even if such museums were built it would still come with criticism. Canada's Museum of Human Rights is the closest thing we have that acknowledges what has happened, and continues to be happening, to our Natives, along with other races and people of different cultures. In Germany, I hear people don't approve the actual concentration camps have been turned into museums, and some tourists don't have much respect with these places.
Museums can be entertainment or informative and both. The museum of Anne Frank, among others on the same period, is a sad experience but not the lesser for it. We need to have these places to drive home the horrors humans have committed against others. For some, history books are insufficient.
Load More Replies... Most civilizations are predatory, not just the "white" ones. Even terrorizing their own kind, throughout history and at this moment and will be tomorrow and into the distant future. Nothing will change that. EVER.
I reccomend the black history museum in Detroit! Its very eye opening. I took my borderline racist mom there and she cried in the replica slave ship :b
As despicable as those things were, I think a museum is just a way to crystallize remembrance of a short term genocide
WAY more Russians that Jews died in WWII, we never even hear about that.
Unfortunately I have this thought anytime someone says nothing compares to the holocaust. America didn't go quite as far, but it was genocide 👀
In Winnipeg, Mb (Canada) we have a human rights museum, a whole floor dedicated to this. It’s absolutely heart breaking. They have a theatre room that plays the stories of the survivors on a loop. You just sit and cry with strangers.
Who decided it was a good idea anyway to commercialize human suffering?
In some countries these museums are free. They are for learning, not commercial gain.
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The National Museum of the Native American in Washington, does have a large area on the history of Hawaii and how it became a state, and it is not shown in any romantic way, it shows the true horrors.
How many know about it, or will ever get to see it? If these truths were as "visible" as all those statues of southern "heros", would the national "story" be different? HAHAHAHA, who am I kidding? "Muricans" still in denial that this country is anything less than perfect would NEVER allow such truth!
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What?! There are literally tons of these. I visited a Native American museum that covered genocide and multiple museums that cover slavery in the USA within an hour or two of where I live. I get that responsibility is not always taken the way it should be, but come on...
YOU visited. And you think the ONE building near where YOU live, where about 95 percent of the population will NEVER visit, should 'bout cover it, right?
Load More Replies... First, there were 2 attempts to make a museum dedicated to slavery. Both failed. It is hard to do it for several reasons, mostly no urgency. The Holocaust was an immediate tragedy, that was comprehended quickly. Slavery was a long drawn out affair and for a century afterwards people still thought it was not evil.
We do now though, so little excuse. Not sure why something historic, taking a long time, impacts what happens today. There are many holocaust deniers and not sure it was quite as quickly comprehended as you think. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/world-response-to-the-holocaust
Load More Replies... We do have an actually really good museum literally at the sight of the Japanese internment camps in the middle of the Mojave Desert in California; I highly recommend a summertime visit to get the impact of the scorching heat the victims endured.
Realistically, how many people saying, repeatedly and Nationwide that they can't EAT or afford their rent, will be able to travel to the site of said museum? Indeed,(and this is The Point) how many people even KNOW it exist, and why DON'T they know?
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Yep. It's in D.C. There are also lots of museums that touch on these other oppressions too, but afaik, none specifically for the trauma. For example, there's the National Civil Rights Museum in Tennessee where Dr. King was assassinated, the Mashantucket Pequot Museum in Connecticut which is the largest Native American museum in the country, Iolani Palace in Hawaii that is devoted to the legacy of Hawaii's last monarchs, etc.
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The Hebrew word for burnt offering is NOT Holocaust. In fact, holocaust isn't a Hebrew word at all. Not sure where you got this information, but it's not true.
Load More Replies...“Those [products] with the best quality, price, customer service, or combination (of at least two) often do well. Increasingly, however, those who are willing to spend more at the beginning are seeing both extreme gains and losses. Famously, Amazon and Tesla, for example, have spent hundreds of millions of investors’ dollars before ever making a cent," he said.
Certain parts of social media are very anti-capitalist and Instagram is no different. Very recently, Bored Panda wrote about the ‘Humans of Capitalism’ project that makes memes about economic dystopia.
Angel, the founder of that particular IG project, told Bored Panda that they’re not optimistic about the future. They believe that people are constantly bombarded by information, non-stop, to get them to consume more and more products, which helps capitalism survive as a system.
In the UK our entire lifeboat/rescue from water system is run and peopled by volunteers and they are world class.
"We often see many small businesses collapsing because they are not able to fight with the current trend or to combat with the giant competitors. So they have two options, close the business or sell it," they said.
They believe that the future is likely to bring more automation, with machines producing, delivering, and taking care of the food supply, clothing, and the healthcare system. However, this would mean that some people would lose their jobs while the question of who owns the distribution system would be on many an individual’s minds.
bodyslam cop. eat the corrupt. kill the rich. take their leftovers. seize control of the government. do it.
I may be naïve, but isn't it a good thing that a company has opened a warehouse in a poor area that would offer jobs to those in much need?
"The idea of getting free food, water, health, clothing, is nice and, in reality, if we take a closer look at the current system we can see that more people are let off and replaced by machines. For example, we can see that McDonald's workers are fired and they have been replaced with machines that work on touch or by sound and they take orders, forward orders to the employees, etc,” they mused.
"I believe that 50 years from now machines will provide food, clothing, healthcare services, and much more, by themselves, with little to no employees monitoring them. But there is an issue with that. You will leave millions of people jobless and cause huge riots as the famous quote from Jean-Jacques Rousseau goes: 'When the people shall have no more to eat, they will eat the rich.'"
Looks more like an armchair homeless advocate. As one who has worked in the homeless field, it is more complicated than people want to accept. However, things can change to make it better, less complicated, and quicker to respond to peoples needs.
To defend???!! Hahahah what a load of bullshit!! Americans fight wars abroad to maintain what you have, to steal resourses! And if you dont know that by now, you are most likely an ignorant u.s citizen
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Simple concept: "We all do better when we all do better" but few seem to grasp it.
Superb commentary on capitalism. When we think and act as a collective taking into account the basic health, financial and shelter needs of all of us, we have a society worth being part of. Capitalism isn't based on fairness. Let's give everyone and ourselves a fair go.
I would say it's focused on the USA, some of the stuff doesn't happen in europe. We have law protected unions, universal healthcare, support for people out of work and we question where the tax money goes. (The current EU president isn't very popular here in Germany - for spending more money on advisors than getting our army essential equipment during her time as secretary of defense with it)
Here's an anti capitalist tip for amazon customers. When they ask you if you want to donate to charity through that smile gimmick just say no. They use that money as a tax write off for charitible donations so they dont have to pay tax on the same amount of profit. You are paying the donation but they are claiming the tax credit from it. If you want to donate, do it direct to the charity and dont let these companies use your charity as a tax write off
Living under capitalism is not perfect. But I have lived under communism, and that was truly horrible. The perfect and flawless system would be one where human beings cannot influence. It does not exist. If you manage to tear down our current system, you might find that you get to spend less time surfing the internet and more time picking turnips and hoping the bread line is not too long today, or that the nosy lady in your apartment block does not denounce you to the police for playing unsocialist music.
As an anarchist I agree with the criticism against capitalism here. What concerns me however, is the jump-the-gun attitude and optimism of violent revolution as a means of solution. "Kill the rich", "not spared in the revolution" etc. only remind me of Leninist sentiments that quickly became about shifting power instead of fighting it. Old Tsar officers became Red officers. I do not consider communism like that of Soviet a viable alternative to capitalism. It is trading being steamrolled for being shot. It is understandable to be furious about capitalism and wanting to do something about it, but revenge served cold will only lead to suffering and solves nothing. Let's think about it. Let's come up with a plethora of alternatives and solutions. Let's find tools for change nobody expected to exist. Let us never reduce ourselves to means to an end. We are not work horses that need to kick, we need to run free.
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Let's compare college prices before 1965 and after 1965 when the government stared guaranteeing student loans removing incentive for colleges to keep tuition affordable.
Well this was sad and very depressing. Its eye opening to the fact that while some think they are living the American dream , other countries are actually taking care of its citizens. The US, seems to set everyone up for failure except for a choice few.
Boo westerners bad West is evil we should all be 1990s eastern Europe. Every single post on BP.
People who think there is a system better than capitalism are complete morons. Humanity has never had it easier.
Well most of them are US specific, and the US healthcare problems are not caused by capitalism itself, the absolutely out of this planet prices of anything healthcare is anti capitalist.
They fixed it, this post used to be filled with garbage memes, I'm glad they fixed it
Simple concept: "We all do better when we all do better" but few seem to grasp it.
Superb commentary on capitalism. When we think and act as a collective taking into account the basic health, financial and shelter needs of all of us, we have a society worth being part of. Capitalism isn't based on fairness. Let's give everyone and ourselves a fair go.
I would say it's focused on the USA, some of the stuff doesn't happen in europe. We have law protected unions, universal healthcare, support for people out of work and we question where the tax money goes. (The current EU president isn't very popular here in Germany - for spending more money on advisors than getting our army essential equipment during her time as secretary of defense with it)
Here's an anti capitalist tip for amazon customers. When they ask you if you want to donate to charity through that smile gimmick just say no. They use that money as a tax write off for charitible donations so they dont have to pay tax on the same amount of profit. You are paying the donation but they are claiming the tax credit from it. If you want to donate, do it direct to the charity and dont let these companies use your charity as a tax write off
Living under capitalism is not perfect. But I have lived under communism, and that was truly horrible. The perfect and flawless system would be one where human beings cannot influence. It does not exist. If you manage to tear down our current system, you might find that you get to spend less time surfing the internet and more time picking turnips and hoping the bread line is not too long today, or that the nosy lady in your apartment block does not denounce you to the police for playing unsocialist music.
As an anarchist I agree with the criticism against capitalism here. What concerns me however, is the jump-the-gun attitude and optimism of violent revolution as a means of solution. "Kill the rich", "not spared in the revolution" etc. only remind me of Leninist sentiments that quickly became about shifting power instead of fighting it. Old Tsar officers became Red officers. I do not consider communism like that of Soviet a viable alternative to capitalism. It is trading being steamrolled for being shot. It is understandable to be furious about capitalism and wanting to do something about it, but revenge served cold will only lead to suffering and solves nothing. Let's think about it. Let's come up with a plethora of alternatives and solutions. Let's find tools for change nobody expected to exist. Let us never reduce ourselves to means to an end. We are not work horses that need to kick, we need to run free.
Load More Replies... Let's compare college prices before 1965 and after 1965 when the government stared guaranteeing student loans removing incentive for colleges to keep tuition affordable.
Well this was sad and very depressing. Its eye opening to the fact that while some think they are living the American dream , other countries are actually taking care of its citizens. The US, seems to set everyone up for failure except for a choice few.
Boo westerners bad West is evil we should all be 1990s eastern Europe. Every single post on BP.
People who think there is a system better than capitalism are complete morons. Humanity has never had it easier.
Well most of them are US specific, and the US healthcare problems are not caused by capitalism itself, the absolutely out of this planet prices of anything healthcare is anti capitalist.
They fixed it, this post used to be filled with garbage memes, I'm glad they fixed it
