Thank you for articulating this better than I can lol
Eric Duprey
ericduprey
This guy gets it.
As someone who actually works at an Amazon Fulfillment Center, I would hardly describe the working conditions as “unspeakably cruel.”
“you’re probably middle class and don’t know what capitalism does to, say, the people of flint, michigan?”
This says nothing about capitalism, this article is talking about the Millennium Development Campaign by the UN. Did you even read your own source?
I never attributed the entire success of the modern world to capitalism, all I said was that it had been the biggest force lifting people out of poverty in the modern world. Cool attempt at a strawman tho
I’m sure we’ll get a “They took our jerbs” as part of it.
I am middle class, thanks to capitalism. As far as water is concerned, capitalism hasn’t been allowed to do much for flint as public utilities are highly regulated by the government and there is almost no competition. Lack of spending on infrastructure by the government and just general mismanagement cause the problem…
“Likewise, two decades ago, the horrors of modern capitalism weren’t as readily evident, and it was easier to tell yourself that everything was Actually Fine,”
Should be 50% effective, since he’s half-man, half-bear, and half-pig.
Well except Amazon DOES have competition. You can go to the website of Walmart, Target, on the clothing and homegoods side or Lowes, Homedepot, Autozone on the other end and get about 90% of what you can via Amazon. I’m not saying they compete WELL against Amazon, but there is come competition. I think the main…
Consecutive Days without a workplace accident: 0
Wouldn’t bear spray at least be 33% effective against ManBearPig?
Amazon isn’t a monopoly in the economic, legal, or even laymen sense of the word. They control approximately 5% of the retail market and have only hovered around 50% of the online retail market in recent years. To use your own example, Standard Oil, an actual monopoly, controlled 90% of the refined oil market in the…
People living in a modern western country complaining about capitalism is pretty much the same thing as a teenager telling their parents who feed them and put a roof over their head that they hate them.
All right, but apart from that what has capitalism ever done for us?
Definitely coincidence. Now if it were ManBearPig spray...
“Now, anyone who pays attention is acutely aware of what’s going on, and how utterly unfettered modern capitalism has gotten.”
100% agree with this. I never have looked at a carton of almond, coconut, cashew, etc milk and seriously wondered “How do they milk the nuts?”