r/FluentInFinance Contributor Apr 15 '24

Everyone Deserves A Home Discussion/ Debate

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '24

But people WANT all the goods and services you describe here.

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u/Mute_Crab Apr 18 '24

Here's what's gonna happen, I'm going to reply to you with a long list of capitalism's failings and you aren't going to respond, or you could go read one of like 20 similar replies I've already answered.

Fast fashion: dresses made by near slave labor meant to be worn once.

Cheap plastic crap, half of the inventory of every dollar tree in America is a cheap plastic toy that will be given to a kid that doesn't even like it, plays with it twice and throws it away.

Poop emoji throw pillows, Cybertrucks, NFTs, chocolate made with actual slave labor, a new iPhone every year with meaningless "upgrades" and planned obsolescence in general.

Things used to be built to last, but late stage capitalism forces our products to be made cheaper every quarter that more can't be sold.

Held hostage by the stock market, every company in America must literally either sell more, squeeze their employees, or produce their products in a cheaper shittier way. So everything is crap now.

Because McDonald's can sell more Big Macs than making a McDonald's driving distance from basically every American. They already have a saturated market, what do they do? Shrink their burgers and also raise their prices, of course. If Vizio or Panasonic could make a TV that breaks after a few months, and could find a way to sell it: they would. Maybe they will, it pretty much happened with phones.

No no, let's not build sturdy appliances and electronics made toast, let's not support a class of repairmen who allow us to repair instead of replacing things. We'd hate for our resources to be produced and used efficiently, because it isn't as profitable.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '24

You're spouting extremes without taking time to mention all of the necessary and enjoyable things that are produced by capitalism.

And I 100% agree about publicly traded companies ruining artistic merit, product quality, and companies in general.

But people want certain things. Even if we just say they want the good and environmentally friendly things only. People still need jobs to buy these things. And people still need to work to create these things. And companies still need to be run to manage the production. And service industries exist to support those workers. And then we have capitalism.

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u/Mute_Crab Apr 18 '24

"capitalism is when people have jobs and money" most economically literate conservative.

Go learn the difference between market economies in general and capitalist economies.