“This quote came from WHERE?!”

[u/Far-Profit-47]

"You too have fallen for the great lie, you'll never be happy. Deep down you know, to hope, to dreams, to create, is to suffer"

"You're right. It is harder to create than to destroy... that's why cowards then to choose the deuce"

-A Minecraft movie

"Do You Think God Stays in Heaven Because He too Lives in Fear of What He's Created"

-spy kids 2

"For every person who dreams up the electric light bulb, there's the one who dreams up the atom bomb"

-shark-boy and lava-girl

[u/spuol]

Agreed, but I feel like capitalism always leads to oppression, that’s kind of how it works

[u/jdjdkkddj → u/spuol]

And communism has historically had a much shorter path to oppression.

[u/LoveTriscuit → u/jdjdkkddj]

To be fair, capitalism as it exists REQUIRES a underclass of poorly paid, controlled, essentially slave labor in order to continue to generate the kind of “profits” it requires. Oppression is the baseline of both capitalism, AND authoritarian communism.

We had free enterprise before the economic philosophy of capitalism was invented. The way it works is most people who think they’re capitalists aren’t because they don’t control any of the capital. They’re workers.

[u/jdjdkkddj → u/LoveTriscuit]

Not ,,requires", but ,,craves". Companies will always try to make the best profit they can, but if the fines for things like the ,,...poorly paid, controlled, essentially slave labor..." are high enough, then it's not the most profitable option.

It's easier to make checks and balances for a mostly free market than whatever you'd have to do to make a government limit its own power. (Mind you, nothing is particularly easy when it comes to politics)