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  • TheKingBee@lemmy.worldtoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Define LiberalismEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Tell me you’ve never had to clean blood of the walls of a stall in a toilet at your minimum wage retail job without telling me you’ve never had to clean blood off the wall of a stall in the toilet at your minimum wage retail job.

    I get the joke, i agree with the message but I also agree with the bathroom being for customers only…

    It’s a mistake you only make once, they just need to use the bathroom and you feel like an asshole for turning them away so you let them use it and the next thing you know you’re cleaning fucking blood off the fucking wall.

  • TheKingBee@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Its getting old.English
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    3 years ago

    I guess i’m getting that from when you first said,

    but in a truly free market capitalist system

    I just assumed you were defending a “truly free market” capitalism.

    to address what you just posted,

    is it appropriate to blame capitalism when a public corporation in collusion with the government is at fault for an issue? If not, why?

    yes, capitalism creates the conditions for that collusion. It allows entities with the only goal of profit at any cost.

    removing the government doesn’t reduce that corruption it just allows it to go unchecked without even an illusion of protection to the public.

  • TheKingBee@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Its getting old.English
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    3 years ago

    Okay, let’s do it explain how in a “pure” capitalist society a public body, without the ability to at least nominally use a legal system to guard against collusion and monopoly using the threat of breaking up or shutting down corporations, provide any protection?

    Giving them the power to do that makes them just a government by another name.

  • TheKingBee@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Its getting old.English
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    3 years ago

    I feel as though you’re also assuming I’m 100% advocating for what I’m describing

    i think you’re missing it. Government for as glacial and corrupt and corruptible as it is, is the only buffer from the excess of a free market.

    businesses without a guardrail HAVE proven they will sacrifice everything, literally everything in the name of profit.

    Oil companies have know for about a century that they are destroying the planet and they are *still * doing it. They fight every regulation that stops them tooth and nail. They buy and shelve technologies that would cut into their profit. Imagine a world where there was no one trying to stop them at all?

    That is the proper diagnosis of our system. We have allowed unaccountable immoral groups to control the means of production and they are literally using it to with kill us all.

  • TheKingBee@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Funtastic 😅English
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    3 years ago

    I’m not trying to defend windows, it has a myriad of issues, but I’ve never understood the meme of it updating at inconvenient times. I run windows 11 pro, I set it to only update when i tell it to and it does… Like it’s never been a problem, wasn’t a problem in windows 10 or 7 pro either.

    I don’t get it, am i windows whisperer and not know it?