50 Times People Exposed Their Poor Economic Knowledge And This Community Took The Chance To Mock Them

As someone who works in food processing, the USDA is there to HELP YOU! Do you know what happens if you are selling food that is not USDA inspected? You can't buy insurance. Fail your USDA inspections? No insurance. When somebody gets sick, you LOSE YOUR FARM in a lawsuit. The USDA is there to protect consumers but they are also there to protect industry. Read the guidelines and listen to your inspector and your business will not be destroyed when someone eventually gets sick. Also people who drink raw milk can literally eff off and die.

And what would Daily_the_Project21 gain from all this? "If I were a billionaire I'd be an utter sociopath" isn't the clever argument he thinks it is...

And we can both guess where "trifilingo" and "tosseriffic" are located in that IQ statistic...

Ah, random reddit surveys, the most reliable method of research...

Clean someone's house for the rest of my life? Hard NO! I'd do it for a year or two though. That's good money.

First, the lawsuit has since been withdrawn because the Pepsi patent on the specific type of potato, named FC5, has since been revoked on a technicality. Second, Pepsi had its reasons: they had a deal with farmers growing their patented potato variety, -that Pepsi developed to favor low water content making it perfect for frying, and had patents granted- where Pepsi would provide seeds to the farmers, and they would be the only purchaser. At some point, some farmer started selling those seeds, and four other farmers were found growing the patented variety. Third: Pepsi took action mostly because that potato is unsuitable for any other use than crisp-making, so those illegal suppliers were at risk of providing the competition with something that was an unique business advantage. Pepsi was well in their rights to sue, the whole thing was dealt with with a bit too much nationalism and little care for the actual law.

This is so absurd... the whole article, but this... people defending obcene wealth concentration while people above 70 are forced to work to pay for health-care... They really think Bezos is the victim of the system and needs defenders here? Are we seriously talking about "concent" in this context? I'm out...

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Blessed construction workers, building houses out of the goodness of their heart. No pay and they donate the materials and lot.

That's an interesting organizational conundrum. There are a bunch of studies about organization structure, and IIRC the gist is that the CEOs in large companies can have significant strategic impact, immense power to potentially harm company value but only a very moderate impact on production value; on the contrary, most organizations rely on "stars", i.e. high-performing technical staff, good managers or salesmen, usually located at the middle of the ladder, who are the largest providers of actual value in the company. So yeah, the "trope" is scientifically accurate.

Can anyone cite a single example of a person being shot for defunding a Library? That dude is FoS.

These comments are written by two people who have no idea what "Capitalist" or "Capitalism" means. You can pay someone to make stickers with your design on them. They aren't making the stickers themselves. The printer who prints the stickers is the capitalist but I see what the dumb@$$es were trying to say.

Messengerw1 is seriously complaining about the most effective gun control operation in the last five decades, that led to a steep decline -up to 80%- in homic*des, suic*des, and home viol*nce, going from an average of a mass shooting every 18 months to NONE over 20 years?

Is that not what America already pays for? Imagine if billionaires and millionaires paid their taxes properly, and the government actually uses the taxes for communities, like homeless aid programs, giving Americans low cost or free healthcare, well-funded public schools that don't make parents pay for their kid's supplies and the teacher's, improving infrastructure and giving more communities public transportation, etc.

What?

But the US Constitution *ACTUALLY SUCKS*. It's badly outdated, badly written in the first place, and -as painfully evident- lacks provisions to curb grab of power. The electoral college concept has been surpassed in modern democracies since the late 1800s. The lack of proportional voting and the "winner takes all" mindset nowadays is ridiculous. The "2 senator per state" was a stupid compromise stemming from a 18th Century political dealing, and still gives excessive representation to states with more cows than people. The language is outdated and vague (see the "well organized militia" thing that the gun nerds love so much but originated with the exact opposite meaning of what they understand). The provisions for amendments makes it basically impossible to bring the constitution to a modern standard.

For a fun read here's an article about what happened when enough moronic civil libertarians moved to the tiny town of Grafton, New Hampshire and were able to take over and (mostly) eliminate the town government: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21534416/free-state-project-new-hampshire-libertarians-matthew-hongoltz-hetling FWIW, my position is that anyone who claims to be a libertarian should be force to live for a year on a road that's owned by a capitalist.

It may have been sarcasm, but the kettle is still black even when it's the pot that points it out.

Looks more like Trump's birthday bash rolling over democracy!

Yes people are that stupid.

IIRC Marx in "Das Kapital" splits the working class in two categories, "productive" and "unproductive" (i.e. support workforce, that do not produce directly surplus value but whose labor is necessary to sustain the productive parts of society). A cashier would be in the latter category, but still be "working class" since he would not own the means of production and rely on selling labor to sustain himself.

They didn't "f**k" themselves. Those jobs still exist in some form or the other. Fighting to have the due rights and protection means maybe temporarily less employees as a kneejerk reaction, but over time the jobs will return and to a higher standard. It also means curbing quickly a race to the bottom that would definitely impact also the jobs where such protections already exist.

So....as long as other people are being forced to comply with YOUR beliefs, not science based facts, but your "well i really FEEL"....that's all well and good, but once there's an expectation of YOU...."well that's authoritarian"

I see this in a lot of arguments with people of this type. I can't even call it a strawman argument, because he's actually responding to something someone actually posted, but he's treating it as a literal assessment when that's clearly not the case. It's never been the case. The only one who have ever thought it was the case was people like TheDragonReborn726. Again, the point is for TheDragonReborn726 to have an edgy reply without actually considering whether or not he's arguing against a point that's actually being made.

r/sino is a Chinese nationalist extremism-driven community; the mods are actual PRC officers. It was wild during Covid, they were actively denying the existence of the virus while at the same time blaming anyone for it, from the USA to Spain and Italy (where the first western cases were reported, several months after the first chinese cases hidden by the government). Writing "taiwan", "tienanmen" or "winnie the pooh" would get you immediately banned.

Much like capping net worth, taxing inheritance at 100% (after some reasonable minimum) would result in some combination of a windfall for the government (which could reduce other taxes) and people spending more of their money instead of hoarding it until they die. We need savings to create loan money, but spending money is what drives the economy. The challenge is finding the optimal compromise, but it's definitely not letting 1% of the population own 30% of all US wealth.

No way a guy called "Taliban" who identifies as a "LeftCom Stalinist" is just a troll... /s

Right. Because when people shoot government employees or officials they always shoot the ones who are the problem. Luigi and John Hinckley are the only people I can think of off the top of my head who made a good choice about who to shoot.

In both cases, it was a major f*ckup by corrupt Republican presidents.

lol yeah california and NYC are THRIVING. Ya know if you ignore all the homelessness and crime, the businesses and individuals abandoning them because that, and many more well intentioned thought ultimately ill conceived plans. Which they do! Shoplifting isn't a crime anymore! Arrested on a murder charge? You'll be home by dinner! Hell, there's a video going around of a someone, who just so happens to be black and trans in colorado trying to abduct a child from a school playground. Rap sheet as thick as a phonebook, a known p**o....but whoopsie....they've been designated as "mentally ill" and thus can't be prosecuted. This is the 5th time that individual has been released, for the same thing because of the dumbassery. https://nypost.com/2025/08/11/us-news/trans-s*x-offender-escapes-prosecution-after-trying-to-kidnap-child-during-elementary-school-recess/

Disregarding an argument with a a term they learned in a high school debate class. Yeah, that sounds about right. I need to start selling bingo cards for anti-state arguments.

You have rights in so far as you able to defend them. Which you are not doing....the government defends those rights....which is to say they have instilled those rights. The fact that you exist, does not entitle you to anything.

I actually have to agree on this one. OP is still an edgelord and is skirting the point Jonny is trying (poorly) to make, but the concept of freedom implies the possibility of failure. That's not an excuse not to implement redundancies and safety nets, though, which is typically not something anti-state posters support. If the system isn't involved, it can't be the system's fault for someone failing. It IS however, the system's fault for casually turning a blind eye to problems that exist, which is frequently what anti-state solutions implement.

Ok, the anti-state guy's right on this one. That is unfortunately not how cash works. An excess of cash in circulation will automatically rise the cost of goods, Even money follows the laws of supply and demand.

This one doesn't check out (the anti-state argument). Why do they think businesses have teams of a specific job? Because the answer one person with one set of knowledge and one skillset comes to a different, and often more incomplete, conclusion than a group of people with a variety of knowledge and skillsets. This was a natural conclusion that even capitalism supports. Again, the focus is on seeming edgy in response without considering the actual argument beyond face value.

If you want to live in a communist controlled country, Go to china, vietnam, north korea, Loas or Cuba....go for it, see how you do. And while you're there, maybe read up as to what happened in every other country the dabbled in communism.

Unhinged much? Yeesh.

Anyone holding North korea up as any kind of ideal doesn't get to voice opinions in public. Per capita GDP of NK is $790. over 60% of the population lives in extreme poverty. Information control, censorship, no due process, FFS the government mandates acceptable hairstyles. The entire population exists for the benefit of the "Supreme leader" whom both invented the hamburger and learned to drive at the age of 3. Taking any claim coming out of that government at face value is about as dumb as thinking hamas are the good guys.

Niel's right on this one. He's not saying you shouldn't deal with the shootings, it's just an odd disconnect with the human mind that we've normalized being outraged when 34 people die, but not when a lot more people die from other (often) preventable causes.

Yeah.....starvation, that's America's problem. You people are confusing having to wait for the food your ordered on your glowing brick while you sat on the toilet, with having to stand in line for 12 hours to get bread rations for the week.

Unless her superpower is silence, not gonna have many takers.

Anyone remember what lyndon said ahead of the civil rights act being passed? Pepperidge farm 'members. Saying profit is theft is the same as saying your time has no value.....do you also think "the south will rise again"?

People can't possibly be this stupid.