Record profits from grocery stores and food suppliers. But please, tell me more about how they can’t afford to drop prices and it would be unprofitable.
Keep in mind, unprofitable means going into the red; not just making less profit than the previous quarter. Infinite growth is an insane philosophy, especially for basic goods.
You realize that food producers in a communist nation wouldn’t be supposed to make profits, right? The problems with that in various countries were from poorly done central planning.
Not any more than it is under capitalism. People starve under that system too. Meanwhile you have Republicans crying that a state might pay $1.50 a day to feed a needy kid lunch at school. Why is that even necessary then?
Do I have a citation that starvation exists in capitalist countries as well? I don’t think comparing the rest of the world to the US, which is extraordinarily well-positioned economically for a variety of reasons, makes much sense. Even so, we have 15-30 million people in the US who experience occasional or chronic food insecurity.
As far as Cuba, who knows how they would have done without decades of a US trade embargo. Venezuela has suffered under looting and misrule by authoritarian dictators, not communism.
Source? Communism has never been implemented, and the systems designed to transition to communism, e.g. the USSR, we’re actually pretty successful in decreasing hunger. People starve under capitalism.
@nicholas@agamemnonymous The real reason we’re seeing record profits is that big businesses are preparing cash stockpiles ahead of the inevitable economic collapse that financial experts and insiders are all expecting, but nobody wants to talk about that.
My common response to the “corporate greed” accusation is asking if squirrels are greedy for hoarding acorns for the winter.
The left wingers in the thread aren’t upset that this is being called out because it’s inaccurate, it’s because they want #Communism but understand that #Communism is scary to the masses because of its past failures.
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Record profits from grocery stores and food suppliers. But please, tell me more about how they can’t afford to drop prices and it would be unprofitable.
Keep in mind, unprofitable means going into the red; not just making less profit than the previous quarter. Infinite growth is an insane philosophy, especially for basic goods.
You realize that food producers in a communist nation wouldn’t be supposed to make profits, right? The problems with that in various countries were from poorly done central planning.
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Not any more than it is under capitalism. People starve under that system too. Meanwhile you have Republicans crying that a state might pay $1.50 a day to feed a needy kid lunch at school. Why is that even necessary then?
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Do I have a citation that starvation exists in capitalist countries as well? I don’t think comparing the rest of the world to the US, which is extraordinarily well-positioned economically for a variety of reasons, makes much sense. Even so, we have 15-30 million people in the US who experience occasional or chronic food insecurity.
As far as Cuba, who knows how they would have done without decades of a US trade embargo. Venezuela has suffered under looting and misrule by authoritarian dictators, not communism.
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Ha ha, no. If that’s the angle you’re coming from that explains a lot.
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Source? Communism has never been implemented, and the systems designed to transition to communism, e.g. the USSR, we’re actually pretty successful in decreasing hunger. People starve under capitalism.
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@aniki @wintermute_oregon “Only mean people have healthy margins in their business ventures” is the quintessential terminally online take
Healthy margins ≠ record profits
@agamemnonymous Record profits ≠ bad
Record inflation is though, and makes all the nominal profits numbers go up without adding any extra underlying value to the companies balance sheets.
@nicholas @agamemnonymous The real reason we’re seeing record profits is that big businesses are preparing cash stockpiles ahead of the inevitable economic collapse that financial experts and insiders are all expecting, but nobody wants to talk about that.
My common response to the “corporate greed” accusation is asking if squirrels are greedy for hoarding acorns for the winter.
When they’re hoarding billions of acorns, leaving little for the other squirrels, then yes.
@agamemnonymous Which is what all squirrels would do if they could 🤷🏾♂️
@wintermute_oregon @Amoxtli To be fair to the others, this isn’t technically #Socialism or #Communism, it’s a #MixedMarket. Problem is that you’re also right, this is how we drift away from #Capitalism.
The left wingers in the thread aren’t upset that this is being called out because it’s inaccurate, it’s because they want #Communism but understand that #Communism is scary to the masses because of its past failures.