Comment by 🚀 stack
Re: "Question and Answer Thread Use this thread as a place to…"
An appeal to authority wil not change my mind about what is around me.
I suppose it may be more accurate to say that capitalism is no more and we are trapped in an absurd corporate Marxism with fascist flourishes.
I don't particularly care what the propaganda machine calls it, but they use the word capitalism for this authoritarian system that is decoupled from supply or demand, uses fake money, employs asses to set prices and dictate social/economic policies and protects the rich at any cost.
2025-11-01 · 6 months ago
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🦆 galup [OP/mod] · 2025-11-01 at 18:27:
@stack apologies, I misunderstood what you meant when you said:
"Except that "capitalism" no longer means what it did when it was placed into the dictionary.".
Also it was not an appeal to authority. It was to show that you're the one that arbitrarily asserts a definition and insists upon it. The word has a particular established usage and meaning that has been identified consistently by those that have employed reason to come to their conclusion.
You decided to use the word capitalism to describe something other than what it's roots and essentials are.
🚀 stack · 2025-11-01 at 19:01:
@galup, you are right about the misuse of the term 'capitalism' as defined in dictionaries. However I insist that the original meaning is lost -- there is no free market anywhere in the world, all money is pure fiat, and artificial barriers to running a business form large, state-subsidised corporate walled gardens that function outside real economy and need no 'customers' except for show. Private ownership is severely restricted, regulated, and used as a tax money pump. It is not I who insists on calling this 'capitalism'.
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Question and Answer Thread Use this thread as a place to post some intial questions and answers.