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antithesizer 4 days ago

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tomhow 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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NitpickLawyer 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Sabine is european, we kinda have some experience with alternatives to capitalism here, so... Yeah. That's not a valid criticism, on anyone. Just because you get points online for saying capitalism bad doesn't mean it's not the best out of everything we've tried so far...

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gdbsjjdn 4 days ago | parent [-]

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NitpickLawyer 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

I ... Uh... That's not what capitalism means. Sorry. We have plenty of capitalist countries w/ great healthcare, and social programs. Capitalism means "free market" + rules. If you're unhappy about something, fix that, don't throw the baby with the water.

	▲	gdbsjjdn 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I love that the two replies to this post are "capitalism isn't actually when wealth concentration" and "fascism actually isn't when right wing authoritarians take control by demonizing ethnic groups and imposing austerity".
	▲	capitotal 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> "free market" + rules A contradiction! Some system.

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Mainan_Tagonist 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Maybe because what you call "Fascism" isn´t Fascism and, as far as i know, nobody wants to gut our (varied) social programs, but we are just conscious that in some cases, said programs are failing, unsustainable due to resources misallocation and/or grossly mismanaged.

Having a slightly more dynamic entrepreneurial scene, where one is allowed to fail for instance, would be nice.

In my view, the way forward and the example to follow is Switzerland, not the US.