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[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago (5 children)

That’s called fraud, and it violates consent, and it’s therefore not a free market activity, which makes it more of a breakdown of capitalism than the thing itself.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hey its called catfishing and for some of us it's the only way we can get a date...

Signed - definitely not a restaurant totally super hunky dream guy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hey super hunky dream guy! You said we should meet for lunch, what was that restaurant you mentioned?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

When my kids were young they called McDonald’s “Dick Donald’s”.

Just wanted to randomly point that out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for clarification!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's not what clarification means.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for clarification!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I do believe we have different definitions of capitalism

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

From wikipedia:

Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit

 Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, price systems, private property, property rights recognition, self-interest, economic freedom, meritocracy, work ethic, consumer sovereignty, profit motive, meritocracy, entrepreneurship, commodification, voluntary exchange, wage laborand the production of commodities.

(emphasis mine)

What definition are you using?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The other one on Wikipedia:

The capitalist mode of production is characterized by private ownership of the means of production, extraction of surplus value by the owning class for the purpose of capital accumulation, wage-based labour and—at least as far as commodities are concerned—being market-based.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Capitalism doesn't qualify as free market activity then. Capitalism inherently involves treating persons as things. In the firm, the workers are jointly de facto responsible (DFR) for production, but the employer gets sole legal responsibility for the positive and negative results of production. This violates the principle of legal and de facto responsibility matching. DFR isn't de facto transferred, but legal responsibility is. Morally, this is an institutional fraud
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I mean, capitalism seeks monopolies, so capitalism inherently undermines itself

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Good luck using them though.