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Just curious: What do you consider the first #capitalist society?
Generally, folks seem to think of the 19th century. Roughly when #Industrialisation moved the power to exploit people from "power by noble birth" (#Feudalism) to "power by capital ownership" (#Capitalism) on a large scale. With a lot of overlap, of course.
Yet some Marxists as well as "Capitalism= #PrivateProperty" folks argue an earlier beginning of capitalism.
@knittingknots2 This is the #freemarket in action, and this is a good thing.
The hits keep coming, yesterday it was reported that Tesla trade ins have increased 300%+ since this time last year. With the majority of that change occurring in the last few months since Elon Musk became the poster child of US far right politics.
The 1% want a world where AI wants is given permission to consume all copyrighted content for free, but its citizens are charged for access to scholarly papers. Corporatism is a disease.
#OpenAI #ChatGPT #Hypocrisy #freemarket #corporatism #AI #aaronswartz #bankerlivesmatter #rulesfortheenoneforme
I'm all for Libertarianism for people who want it.
Libertarianism all the way through to the bottom, tho. Just like Nature intended.
Wassat? You can't outrun the bear because you fell down and now your knee is messed up?
That's a damn shame. Well #FreeMarket you know?
Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/02/27/inheriting-is-becoming-nearly-as-important-as-working
More wealth means more money for baby-boomers to pass on. That is dangerous for capitalism and society.
"People in advanced economies stand to inherit around $6trn this year—about 10% of GDP, up from around 5% on average in a selection of rich countries during the middle of the 20th century. As a share of output, annual inheritance flows have doubled in France since the 1960s, and nearly trebled in Germany since the 1970s."
"For supporters of free markets, the rise of the new inheritocracy should be deeply disturbing. For a start, it creates a rentier class that faces a series of bad incentives."
More wealth means more money for baby-boomers to pass…
The Economist
@Talkless@fosstodon.orgArgument against #AynRand 's #Objectivism by #AnCap #DavidFriedman :
"In a [ #FreeMarket ], [...] if other actors are free to provide the service of retaliatory force in competition with the #government, it [government] will have no surplus revenue with which to fund government activities [...].
In order [...] to work, the government must have a monopoly of retaliatory force [...] to be able to collect a #monopoly profit with which to fund its other activities."
critique and heresy
David Friedman’s Substack
Announcement! Sunday 02.03.2025
Free flea market, waffles & music 
Sunday, 02.03.2025 | from 12:00 noon | Rigaer Straße 94 10247 Berlin
Arrival: U5, M10, M21 Frankfurter Tor | M10, M21 Bersarinplatz
Call: https://asanb.noblogs.org/?p=10507 - @rigaer94
We've been sorting out and found some stuff that we don't want to just put on the streets.
That's why we want to use the opportunity and host a free-market.
Feel welcome to come by, no matter if you want take things with you or just want to have a coffee with us.
There will be waffles, cold and hot drinks, much stuff and useful things. With much luck a bit of sun, too 
Ankündigung! Sonntag 21.03.2025
Umsonst Flohmarkt, Waffeln & Musik
Sonntag, 02.03.2025 | ab 12:00 Uhr | Rigaer Straße 94 10247 Berlin
Anreise: U5, M10, M21 Frankfurter Tor | M10, M21 Bersarinplatz
Aufruf: https://asanb.noblogs.org/?p=10507 - @rigaer94
Wir Haben ausgemistet und dabei so einiges gefunden, das wir nicht einfach auf die Straße stellen wollten.
Deshalb nutzen wir die Gelegenheit einen Umsonst-Flohmarkt zu veranstalten.
Komm gerne vorbei, egal ob du Dinge mitnehmen oder einfach nur einen Kaffee mit uns trinken möchtest.
Es gibt Waffeln, kalte und warme Getränke, viel Krempel und nützliche Dinge.
Mit viel Glück vielleicht such etwas Sonne
@odaraia@mastodon.greenI just cancelled our #WashingtonPost subscription. We struggled in recent months with the whimsy exercised on the editorial staff, but this is such an insult to subscribers. Personal freedoms are the opposite of free markets. In addition, we are not refunded the balance of our payment, which extends through June of this year. BTW, I had closed an account with Amazon in 2010. Bad business model.
#cancel #PersonalFreedom #FreeMarket
David Shipley, The Post’s opinion editor, is resigning…
The New York Times@futurebird this - so much this.
I have to tell people that #thinktanks, #brainrot and advantageous framing is older than the TV, older than the radio.
The parents of #liberals and #conservatives were the #liberalists, who were groomed by the #aristocracy and the #barons.
Words like #freemarket basically translate to markets controlled centrally by a few monopolists in an exploitative #RaceToTheBottom, where one or several entities become #KingOfTheHole.
#capitalism #anticapitalism #anticapitalists #anticapitalist #anticapitalistmemes #freemarket #economy #solar #climate #climatechange #climatechangeisreal #climateactivism #solarpanels #electricity #renewableenergy #windpower #activism #activist #anarchism
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza"Silk Road was supposed to be about giving people the freedom to make their own choices, to pursue their own happiness."
— Ross William Ulbricht
#RossUlbricht #Ulbricht #FreeRoss #EconomicFreedom #NonAggressionPrinciple #Decentralization #Voluntaryism #SilkRoad #SilkRoadRossUlbricht #FreeMarket #CryptoPhilosophy
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza"I am creating an economic simulation to give people a first-hand experience of what it would be like to live in a world without the systemic use of force!"
— Ross William Ulbricht
#RossUlbricht #Ulbricht #FreeRoss #EconomicFreedom #NonAggressionPrinciple #Decentralization #Voluntaryism #SilkRoad #SilkRoadRossUlbricht #FreeMarket #CryptoPhilosophy
According to President #trump
America can no longer compete in a #freeMarket so, it needs to #tariff it's way to success
Apparently he's NEVER read a history book; it doesn't work
#Politics #USpolitics #CDNpoli #EUpolitics #News #trumpCRASH #MarketCrash
"If 1% of the population controls most of the disposable wealth, what we call 'the market' reflects what they think is useful or important, not anybody else." ~David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs (2018)
The US post- #competition " #freemarket ":
"As #cartels and #monopolies took over our economy, most government regulators were neutered and captured."
"This is what changed: the collapse of market, government, and labor constraints, and IP law's criminalization of disenshittifying, interoperable add-ons."
-- @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/capitalist-unrealism/#praxis