and this is how the starvation starts. With caps on prices, it becomes unprofitable and they just reduce supply. Talk to any survivors of communism and low food supplies has always been an issue.
Record profits from grocery stores and food suppliers. But please, tell me more about how they can’t afford to drop prices and it would be unprofitable.
Keep in mind, unprofitable means going into the red; not just making less profit than the previous quarter. Infinite growth is an insane philosophy, especially for basic goods.
You realize that food producers in a communist nation wouldn’t be supposed to make profits, right? The problems with that in various countries were from poorly done central planning.
Source? Communism has never been implemented, and the systems designed to transition to communism, e.g. the USSR, we’re actually pretty successful in decreasing hunger. People starve under capitalism.
Not any more than it is under capitalism. People starve under that system too. Meanwhile you have Republicans crying that a state might pay $1.50 a day to feed a needy kid lunch at school. Why is that even necessary then?
Do I have a citation that starvation exists in capitalist countries as well? I don’t think comparing the rest of the world to the US, which is extraordinarily well-positioned economically for a variety of reasons, makes much sense. Even so, we have 15-30 million people in the US who experience occasional or chronic food insecurity.
As far as Cuba, who knows how they would have done without decades of a US trade embargo. Venezuela has suffered under looting and misrule by authoritarian dictators, not communism.
@nicholas@agamemnonymous The real reason we’re seeing record profits is that big businesses are preparing cash stockpiles ahead of the inevitable economic collapse that financial experts and insiders are all expecting, but nobody wants to talk about that.
My common response to the “corporate greed” accusation is asking if squirrels are greedy for hoarding acorns for the winter.
The left wingers in the thread aren’t upset that this is being called out because it’s inaccurate, it’s because they want #Communism but understand that #Communism is scary to the masses because of its past failures.
and this is how the starvation starts. With caps on prices, it becomes unprofitable and they just reduce supply. Talk to any survivors of communism and low food supplies has always been an issue.
Record profits from grocery stores and food suppliers. But please, tell me more about how they can’t afford to drop prices and it would be unprofitable.
Keep in mind, unprofitable means going into the red; not just making less profit than the previous quarter. Infinite growth is an insane philosophy, especially for basic goods.
You realize that food producers in a communist nation wouldn’t be supposed to make profits, right? The problems with that in various countries were from poorly done central planning.
It’s an inherent flaw in communism. People starve under the system.
Source? Communism has never been implemented, and the systems designed to transition to communism, e.g. the USSR, we’re actually pretty successful in decreasing hunger. People starve under capitalism.
Yes, it has. Venezuela, Cuba, the soviet block.
Starvation was common under the Soviets.
https://www.historyhit.com/why-did-the-soviet-union-suffer-chronic-food-shortages/
Talk to anyone who survived communism. It is a common theme. That is why one of my friends defected. He came to America and saw a grocery store.
Not any more than it is under capitalism. People starve under that system too. Meanwhile you have Republicans crying that a state might pay $1.50 a day to feed a needy kid lunch at school. Why is that even necessary then?
My friends who survived communism would disagree with you. Do you have a cite to show otherwise?
Looking at Venezuela, I have not seen anything like that here, have you? or Cuba? When I was in Cuba, malnutrition was common.
Do I have a citation that starvation exists in capitalist countries as well? I don’t think comparing the rest of the world to the US, which is extraordinarily well-positioned economically for a variety of reasons, makes much sense. Even so, we have 15-30 million people in the US who experience occasional or chronic food insecurity.
As far as Cuba, who knows how they would have done without decades of a US trade embargo. Venezuela has suffered under looting and misrule by authoritarian dictators, not communism.
Cuba is only embargoed from us. Pretty much everyone else in the world trades with them.
Authoritarian dictators. Communism. It is all the same thing.
Ha ha, no. If that’s the angle you’re coming from that explains a lot.
Name one that hasn’t been the same.
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@aniki @wintermute_oregon “Only mean people have healthy margins in their business ventures” is the quintessential terminally online take
Healthy margins ≠ record profits
@agamemnonymous Record profits ≠ bad
Record inflation is though, and makes all the nominal profits numbers go up without adding any extra underlying value to the companies balance sheets.
@nicholas @agamemnonymous The real reason we’re seeing record profits is that big businesses are preparing cash stockpiles ahead of the inevitable economic collapse that financial experts and insiders are all expecting, but nobody wants to talk about that.
My common response to the “corporate greed” accusation is asking if squirrels are greedy for hoarding acorns for the winter.
When they’re hoarding billions of acorns, leaving little for the other squirrels, then yes.
@agamemnonymous Which is what all squirrels would do if they could 🤷🏾♂️
@wintermute_oregon @Amoxtli To be fair to the others, this isn’t technically #Socialism or #Communism, it’s a #MixedMarket. Problem is that you’re also right, this is how we drift away from #Capitalism.
The left wingers in the thread aren’t upset that this is being called out because it’s inaccurate, it’s because they want #Communism but understand that #Communism is scary to the masses because of its past failures.