cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/leftymemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com/p/1650861/pluralism-go-brrr
The USA is a corporate welfare state, I wish it was capitalist at this point, that would be an immense improvement.
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2026
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Corporate welfare IS an inevitable consequence of capitalism.
Capitalism is an ideology that venerates the accumulation of capital over everything else.
Nothing helps with capital accumulation like under-regulated and over-advantaged corporations.
To be fair, what we're doing now isn't capitalism, it's corporatocracy. It's the end stage of capitalism, the part of the Monopoly game where one guy has all the properties except the dude with the railroads, and the rest of us are hoping to land on Free Parking.
You shop from a handful of large conglomerates and they're fixing the prices.
There's no (beneficial) innovation. There's no competition. We're essentially in a truck system going into debt trying to survive from the company store.
just to be a pedantic ass: the “end stage” of capitalism is still capitalism. it’s like the end stage of cancer is still called cancer; we need to continue to reference the fact that capitalism is destroying all it touches.
new phrases or labels only cleave attention spans in a world already designed (by capitalism) to have no focus.
I don't think it still counts as capitalism when it's no longer a market economy. We get all our goods from an oligopoly that fixes prices like a cartel, only for all goods and services that consumers buy.
It's like when the body in question is more cancer than it is healthy tissue, the system doesn't come close to behaving like its prior iterations.
The only step from here is collapse into war and famine.
Then the end stage of communism, is communism.
What Stalin did, is the end of communism. What followed was the decline and lack of innovation.
Ohh it's big brain time!
The end stage of capitalism is mass extinction, a multi-national famine which is estimated to claim over 4 billion humans, and the potential to take down the earths biosphere if we reach self accelerating climate change.
Yes, that's why anarchism.
Thats just even more fucked up libertarianism.
Ah I see, you are American. Sorry for your circumstances.
no it wasn't, at least according to marx, who they claimed to follow
the stage BEFORE communism was the dictatorship of the proletariat, which they decided was extended, and they were representing the will of the people
so it actually never got to communism
But it did... and that's the joke.
There is no "end stage" communism or capitalism that fits their own purity tests; they are both ideals that we haven't managed to accomplish as a society, ever.
So, as far as humanity is concerned, what results in the attempt to reach that ideal is communism/capitalism as we know it (not as we imagine it will be at some point in future).
nice attempt to control the conversation, but we're talking about capitalism, not communism.
You are talking about capitalism, you mean... they are talking about communism. Nice attempt to control the conversation while admonishing another for attempting to control the conversation, that's funny, you win a cookie.
p.s. this is not a one-topic-only discussion, even if you want it to be.
Thanks for your incredibly valuable input of nothing.
sure. so why not call it what it is?
what we're doing now isn't capitalism, it's corporatocracy.
Capitalism is an ideology that favors the accumulation of capital over all else and, corporations being the most effective vehicle for doing so, corporatocracy is an inevitable component of it.
It's the end stage of capitalism, the part of the Monopoly game where one guy has all the properties except the dude with the railroads, and the rest of us are hoping to land on Free Parking.
AKA the goal of capitalism.
Monopoly was originally called The Landlord's Game, and was created by a Georgist as a critique of and warning against the inevitable consequences of capitalism and rent seeking as well as an education tool about Georgism.
It even had a cooperative game mode where the goal was to beat the bank by engaging in the kind of mutually beneficial trade that's antithetical to capitalism.
That Parker Brothers (now Hasbro) took it and turned it into a popular CELEBRATION of rent seeking is exactly the kind of bullshit Elizabeth Magie was trying to warn people about.
There's no (beneficial) innovation. There's no competition.
And that's a natural consequence of capitalism.
Contrary to the pro-capitalism gaslighting, capitalism is NOT about improving conditions for the many via healthy competition. It's about increasing the wealth of the privileged few by eliminating competition.
You mean Monopoly was plagiarised by Darrow from Magie's game.
Sounds like good old capitalism to me.
The end stage of capitalism is imperialism
what do you mean by beneficial innovation?
Beneficial innovation is the development of new features of goods that are a benefit. Examples include the invention of interchangeable parts, the power loom which makes textiles better quality and more cheaply, the invention of the point-and-click interface (by Xerox, not Apple) that fundamentally changed computer operating systems and productivity software.
Contrast malignant innovation such as shrinkflation packaging, software as a service or lobbying government to get subsidies and pass anti-competitive legislation. ETA: A lot of malignant innovation we see in the present day as enshittification but we also see it at the enterprise end, say when Enron pivoted from managing power to manipulating the market after it got overvalued to preserve the illusion of growth, and in so doing defrauding power consumers of California.
Exactly what's written on the bible