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More like … I own the sugar plantation so I can use as much sugar as I want … I can dump so much sugar into my lemon flavored water that it will be like selling crack to children. Once they’re hooked, these kids will beg their parents to buy my stuff for cheap … for the rest of their lives!
The sugar laden crap I get them hooked on also causes diabetes which is why I also own the diabetes medication pharmaceutical where these kids will buy their drugs as diabetic adults.
I’ll make money on these dumb kids through every stage of their miserable lives.
Oh and I fired the kids who started the stand.
…and paid off the zoning commission to shut down the others, guaranteeing mine is the only legal swill in town.
Every capitalist wants to invest as little and profit as much as possible.
- A history of the world in seven cheap things (p.21)
That was honestly pretty nice of the first guy to not use piss.
That´s how you build brand confidence
So we must buy his because he’s the lesser of two evils! That will fix the lemonade industry
There’s more lemonade by volume in Lemon Pledge furniture polish than in Country Time Lemonade.
[That’s why the small print says “Lemonade flavored drink”]
Trying to explain this to people I know is nearly impossible. They always think “but when I’m rich I want all the money and no regulation!” Well guess what you work at Walmart and will never be rich so I guess let yourself get endlessly exploited then. There is no ethical billionaire. Maybe not even millionaire tbh.
At this point I don’t even consider 50 million net worth “rich”. There are 2 classes of people. Billionaires and their cronies, and everybody else.
I think at around 5 million you no longer need to labor to live. You can put that in safe investments and just coast. That’s maybe not super rich, but it’s definitely above a milestone.
Competitions end. And when competitions end in a world where everything is “run like a business,” the winners are not handed medals, but monopolies.
“We are in fact the same company”
Monsanto secret memo, paraphrased: Our competitors are not our adversaries. They are our allies. The customer is our adversary.
Disclosed during a price-fixing investigation.
Lemon-scented Roundup® is tasty and nutritional, too!
And also killed the dude that was trying to compete.
which is why we need anti piss-in-lemonade laws and limits on how much water there can be for a given number of lemons.
we don’t need to remove capitalism, instead we can restrain it from harming people
Part of me agrees with you. The other part of me knows how well capitalism can pivot so much quicker than laws can be made to curtail the bad practices, that the system seems to be the issue. Maybe the government is the issue too, but it’s a lot of bad faith companies that ruins the bunch. Forward thinking and progressive thinking with quick measured action could do it, but most people who are elected aren’t capable of that or are too compromised to make anything work.
Regulation could keep capitalism in check.
In reality capitalists use their money to make and change laws through lobbyists or bribes, and by propaganda through owning all media.
Not in reality, but in the US. Lobbying is called corruption elsewhere and is a crime. Don’t put this shit on capitalism, it’s a US only problem.
We have all of that in the EU too. The US is just a few years ahead.
it’s a US only problem.
Absolutely not. There more than enough lobbying and corruption in our all-so-democratic EU, just most of the population denying it based on “look how much worse the US is”
Couldnt that be made illegal too?
It could but it’s hard with the capitalism power dynamics in place.
we don’t need to remove capitalism, instead we can restrain it from harming people
That’s what we’ve been telling ourselves for almost 200 years, and yet we are as we are…
I wanna be able to have private property though. I want that and laws that regulate corperations
btw, actually good things have happened in the last 200 years too, along with bad ones
I wanna be able to have private property though.
Do you want a house to live on (Personal Property) or a house for which you charge rent (Private Property)?
actually good things have happened in the last 200 years too.
Many of those good things were “in spite of”, not “because of” the system.
Should have an intermediate step where one of the competitors beats the other. Then the third should have only the remaining one, now big, and selling worse lemonade.
Or they merge lemonade stands
Yeah. I should have said it also needs an acquisition of the loser slide. 😂
