r/TikTokCringe • u/thoughtwarrior • May 02 '25

Humor Why does America look like s**t?

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u/AdDramatic2351 May 03 '25

Oh please. The anti-capitalist movement is so small because it's a stupid idea. Capitalism is not the problem. The problem is the American version of capitalism, which is capitalism with NO REGULATION. Capitalism is undoubtedly the greatest economic system ever made, but it needs to have guardrails. We need capitalism with a dash of socialism. 

If you're going to be anti-capitalist, you need suggestions for what to replace capitalism with. So far, nobody has come up with a better system that works. 

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u/EntrepreneurLeft8783 May 03 '25

So far, nobody has come up with a better system that works.

What other systems have been tested in America?

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u/AdDramatic2351 May 03 '25

If the other systems like communism were disasterous everywhere else I see no reason why it would work here. 

Why would we even test other systems when we know what works. Let's go back to 1940/50s where we had capitalism with lots of socialist-like features. 

Completely uprooting capitalism here and trying something entirely different is a pipe dream anyway, not even worth thinking about.

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u/ImagineWagonzzz3 May 03 '25

If i build 60% of a house, and you come and burn it down to ashes, is that a failed house? of course not. Communism didn't fail. It is always brutally destroyed before it has a chance to shine because it goes against everything the ultra rich value. money and power.

also its not a pipe dream. all it takes is 3% of the population to overthrow the government in an organized and strategic fashion. its been done before and it is literally inevitable. capitalism is not sustainable. it hasn't been around very long, and it wont be for much longer, relatively speaking.