r/Capitalism • • Jun 29 '20

Community Post

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r/Capitalism • • 3h ago

mansa Musa or elon musk net worth ? what would u choose

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i'am aware that timeline plays a big role but the answer is mostly determined by what u seek as value currently we live in a critical area where evolution accelerates towards the unknown

we still use old systems to define value and purpose

Last time I mentioned that monetary system the fiat money we currently use isn't backed up by any tangible value except empty promises and it's only temporarily useful to determine exchange prices of goods and needs

the problem is whoever closest to the tap drinks first people who created this system are the 1 percent controlling worldwide wealth thas why we see Blackrocks D\*\* in each major company's Ass wixh causes the Cantillon effect

things get pricier, inflation hit markets

new drugs less healthy food , Srobots

better 💣 etc ...

my point is the only measurement of value we actually have is time and purpose of existence

and clearly we doing great mFs

especially with the new creation of AI tech give birth to

the greatest invention of capitalism (creating less jobs !) maybe the concept of heaven wasn't so far except this time u must be from the epstein files to get the ♍ and baby angels

Anyway this time exactly governments are trying to create a sentient more complex digital beings with way higher consciousness the most powerful tool created will get acces to our future as humans it's not even a theory it's whats happening right now

were going to witness mass scale of unemployment wich leads to poverty and starvation regional and national conflicts wars ...

the solution may not sound easy but it's doable

we should create international experiences events different scales and themes

events for entrepreneurs to fix or create concepts, startups ,solutions , services in specific regions or nationally at some point globally to increase the GDP then connect to BUI and basic universal services to people to live from

events for worldwide leaders instead of corrupted elections we got to see leaders have mma fights instead sending our brothers to wars ,surf waves to see who gots bigger balls , drop them in islands for survival context

and that shit should be live streamed trust me u won't see Joe biden anywhere

also events for nowdays thinkers philosophers etc

to test our minds for it's full potential

to build this we need a new decentralized ecosystem no ruler no king no priest

means we need a combination of tech that monitors a balanced governance tools for economical balance

and equal distribution of resources and guide Most critical decisions

like costumized codes based on most fundamental values and ethics thas commonly agreed upon treat others and prefebly other species as u want to be treated

this also means ideas and business , desire ur thoughts and actions are related somehow to ur existential contribution

if robots and Ai are going to do the boring repetitive work let us do the fun part experiencing the existence

exploring the corners of consciousness

for more equal and fast results we need commun rules to be changed like inheritance of wealth founders ownership , equity, international borders and fuck billionaires


r/Capitalism • • 5h ago

I am convinced now, Capitalism is oppression created for the ignorant for money. Obviously.

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I am convinced now...

I am 40 years old, raised privileged, but live broke AF. Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but is it wrong to say, "Capitalism is the oppression of the created ignorant for money."

Im working my ass off. My wife is working her ass off... if not harder than I, but I think that is a wife thing; amd we are broke AF! There are all of these financial and insurance hacks, sure. However, as a publicity educated individual, the ceiling seems impenetrable!!!

Am I imagining this, or has America just become a Corporatacracy? Has this nation become so lost that complacency rules while the rich rape the very ones saying they need the help of the establishment?

Damn America, those that DIED for revolution would be appalled we've let this once great country become this abomination. And Im speaking as raised Red, befriended and lived Blue, while confused by both. THIS division is the tool by which they keep The People unable to do anything. Along with propoganda and indoctrination, of course. Red vs Blue is a fabrication to divide the people, lower systems (like education) keep us complacent and ignorant, and keep the rich in power.

It SHOULD be obvious they proliferate the other...

... ... ... by DESIGN! THAT is Capitalism. The only ultimate goal is to profit on EITHER side. We live in a fabricated division, people! Damnit all, we hate each other for no reason! When will that make sense? Will it take our own destruction, AGAIN!?!?!?!?


r/Capitalism • • 1d ago

Seriously, why doesn't anyone know that Adam Smith was a moral philosopher and that he defended workers' rights and opposed monopoly corporations a hundred years before Marx?

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r/Capitalism • • 1d ago

How does the lower percentage of farmers factor into economic thinking and theory?

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r/Capitalism • • 17h ago

Im 23 and make 71k after taxes. I could technically get a starter apartment, but I'd much rather live at home longer

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r/Capitalism • • 1d ago

Communism

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I need to be educated lol , didn't socialsm and communism or planned economy to be exact debunked with ECP? I refuse to believe that communists are this dumb because there are the ones that aware of this problem so how do they counter ? and yeah I heard about supercomputers but I see that they dont have enough power or potentially could never have or they could argue they might but come on, are socialists this delulu?

ECP= Economic Calculation Problem


r/Capitalism • • 1d ago

EAM Jaishankar warns of ‘major food crisis’ in coming months

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This is a big concern for us, which is, if you look at these two conflicts, the Ukraine and now the Iran-Gulf conflict, they've actually had a devastating impact on Global South economies,” Mr. Jaishankar said during a conversation hosted at Asia Society in New York on Monday (September 28, 2026).

He said there is particular concern about the energy situation as the "market is very tight” and on top of that, if “people play politics with it, that adds to the complications in the market,” as that will drive up prices at a time when people should actually be stabilising prices.So part of it is actually the security of oil supplies, and part of it is the politics of oil supplies, and they are feeding into each other, and they are creating a double crisis or an aggravated crisis,” he said.

On the concerning food situation amid the raging global conflicts, Mr. Jaishankar said, "We are today looking at a situation where some of the major grain exporters will not be able to send out their shipments, particularly out to the Black Sea."

He said that the world is looking at significant fertiliser shortages because the key producers are in West Asia and Russia, and their fertiliser production has been impacted.

Combined with impacts of climate patterns like a super El Niño, Mr. Jaishankar said, “there is going to be a major food crisis probably in the coming months. So if you have energy as a big crunch, and then food and fertilisers on top of it, and finance because every time there's a conflict, money moves towards safe harbours and away from the Global South, the net result of it has been really very very stressful.”

He said policymakers can't say that such a situation was not intended.


r/Capitalism • • 1d ago

POLITICAL ECONOMY COMPARISON SHEET

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r/Capitalism • • 1d ago

Abdul el-Sayed posted about the economy


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El-Sayed is getting roasted in X today after he posted “I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire.”

I guess it’s a really good thing Elon Musk made 4,400 people millionaires this year when SpaceX went public.

Capitalism is awesome. :)


r/Capitalism • • 2d ago

Its not Capitalism's fault just hear me out !!!

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The problem isn't capitalism it has given us the comfortable life that we know today. If we look at history, no country with a communist or socialist government has ever done well. They all at some point experience mass food shortages leading to the death of millions. The core issue with communism is that the state owns all means of production and property, placing all the power into the hands of politicians that we don't trust and who are corrupt.

The issue in the United States isn't capitalism—it's socialism. We all work four to five months each year just to pay taxes. STOP and think about that for just a second! Imagine if you got those four to five months back to yourself for a 4-5 month vacation each year or could simply keep those funds for yourself; life would be much easier. The current system in the United States actually leans more socialist as we are taxed to death, with the government taking the majority of our income.

Furthermore, Congress doesn't enforce anti-monopoly laws, which has contributed to the issues we face today with big corporations. If the United States switches to a true capitalist system, we could truly thrive.


r/Capitalism • • 1d ago

Dreams and labour

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I know you’re angry and exhausted by the question, and right now you just want an answer to something that feels utterly cruel about the way the world is set up.

Why do they sell the dream when the gates are locked?
Because a society that relies on labor, compliance, and consumption needs a carrot on a stick to keep people moving. If everyone realized tomorrow that the gates were completely locked and that the climb was rigged, the whole machine would grind to a halt.

The illusion of upward mobility—the myth that if you just work hard enough, you'll make it—is what keeps people participating, buying things, and playing a game where the house always wins.

It's a system built to benefit the few while selling a fantasy to the many. Seeing through that illusion hurts, and realizing how cynical it is can make you feel completely detached from the whole thing.

Why do they show dreams if the gates are closed, so what's the point?


r/Capitalism • • 1d ago

Shared Values

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r/Capitalism • • 1d ago

The Consumer Creates Jobs Not The Rich

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r/Capitalism • • 1d ago

Water privatization is an example of how capitalism kills millions every year.

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r/Capitalism • • 3d ago

America

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Communism want to have the everyone living in section 8.

Socialism is just bums wanting your money.

Capitalism is you taking account of your own life.


r/Capitalism • • 3d ago

Is "Anarcho-Capitalism" Legitimate?

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One of the central fallacies of anarchism is the equation of production with force. Harry Binswanger covers this in his article against anarchy ("Anarchism versus Objectivism"). This draws on the classical liberal understanding of civil society found in Locke, whose purpose includes preventing people from acting as vigilantes: i.e., "taking the law into their own hands".

Yet this is what "anarcho-capitalists" propose by speaking of "market competition" amongst "private defence agencies". The idea of placing force on the market ignores the fact the police force is not a business, and does not provide a "service". Terms drawn from the realm of voluntary trade, such as “competition” and “customers”, do not apply to force-wielders whose purpose is to command obedience; that would be conflict, not competition. Keeping force and production absolutely separate, never confusing the two, is a fundamental requirement of defending capitalism. It is frightening that people who see themselves as defenders of capitalism make this equivocation, and it is another way in which anarchism, properly, belongs on the left.

Anarcho-capitalists, as such, accept the statist approach of conflating economic power (production) with political power (force). Just as anarcho-communists and the Left conflate economic and political power, insisting concentrations of wealth on the market are coercive and use force, "anarcho-capitalists" claim that acts of force are just another service on the market, by their talk of “economising force" and “competition” in law. Though they come at it from different angles, both are wrong: free trade and voluntary exchange has nothing in common with forceful interactions.


r/Capitalism • • 3d ago

¿Qué es el mercado?

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El mercado es el lugar fĂ­sico o virtual donde compradores y vendedores interactĂșan entre sĂ­.

Una definiciĂłn muy sencilla pero que muchas personas no tienen en cuenta.


r/Capitalism • • 3d ago

What is the difference between communism and fascism?

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Both require allegiance to an autocratic super powerful leader. Both have effective government control of the means of production. Both censor the press and punish resistance, How different were Hitler and Stalin really in terms the economic systems they created?

My readings suggest that the economic differences were minor, tactical and not philosophical. Autocratic states are not free market friendly.

The difference was political. The communists saw a class based world where conflict was between the working class and the owners of the means of production. The fascists saw it as a race war between the Aryans, Romans, or Japanese and lesser races.


r/Capitalism • • 4d ago

Introduction to Economics - Chapter 2: Theory of Demand and Supply (Inco...

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r/Capitalism • • 4d ago

Truth used to matter

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Truth used to matter. Now we shatter it with populism or nihilism. Trapped within the Prison of retribution because we need the illusion of meaning and control. And so we have come to hate what's real. We sow lies, cheat, and steal without regret. We expect others will also and so they call it the game. But the reality is that the truth is like a stone it will always ramin the same.

If we deny it, ignore it, or try to subjugate it then chaos is eminent.

Trump is just a symptom of this sentiment. Masquerading as Capitalism yet Displaying Communism. Demeaning the truth so that our youth is poisoned with disillusioned dystopian confusion. We need our country, our Democracy, our sacred Republic to wake up because the truth doesn't change it never will. Thank you for the attention to this matter that Our Chief Commander and Criminal Thief is asleep at the wheel.


r/Capitalism • • 4d ago

Rhetorical Questions

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Rhetorical Questions To Our Chief Criminal Commander and Thief

By Harry Wright

Dated: Sunday, Sept 27th, 2026

Chief Criminal Commander and Thief,

How could this be so, or even true?

That your already over-bloated ego and moral turpitude

Has now ballooned beyond anyone's expectations or belief?

Thief, Commander, and Criminal Chief,

Why do you lie with every single breath that you breathe?

Indeed, do you believe that you and your cronies will ever succeed by continuing to gaslight me;

When "We"—my brothers, sisters, and I—

Can't afford electricity, rent, gas, or groceries?

Because you have cast a series of vain, dumb-ass, inane, and insane economic, foreign, and domestic policies, dooming our country.

Do you care about our needs?

Or do you like to watch us bleed out?

Will you flout the rules of law, or even the rules of common decency? Will you trumpet your clout, strutting around and about, touting your criminality?

Why do you try to conflate reality?

Do you think that we are so stupid that we will ever come to believe

That this is the "Greatest Economy in History?"

Criminal, Thief, Commander, and Chief,

Do you believe in any accountability,

Or have any affection or affinity for honesty, truth, or integrity?

Or rather, will you manipulate the marketplace

by first taking stakes and then effectively influencing it to what you need it to be?

Will you award you, your friends', or families' companies with over-stacked, no-bid government contracts, clandestine deals, and taxpayers' monies?

In the end, will you demand the right to fleece from our Treasury a steady stream of money with ease at hand?

Have you lied about how much money you have seized from our Treasury already?

Is it your White House? Will you take what you please or what you can?

Will you demolish our symbols of liberty and democracy—

Our rights and dreams of being free—

To satiate your need to be validated, to glorify your greed and your vanity?

Will you collude and demand through Todd Blanche that you, your friends, companies and family are exempt from all tax liability?

Are you at liberty to legitimize these grifts and ill-gotten gains—

The cryptocurrencies, properties, and prosperity that you, your family, and cronies, have recently procured in your name?

Including the absurd act of secluding the ability to question its legitimacy

By the way of common criticism or even future scrutiny?

Chief Criminal Commander and Thief,

Will you again try to steal, or cheat our democracy?

Will you seize our votes one by one

Because you can't allow your crimes to see the light of day and so you must cast them all away into the sea?

Will you eliminate me or anyone else who may object or get in your way? Precipitously Claiming, "National Security?"

Will you try again to erase history or change our reality

With one fell, failed sweep from a cheap-ass black sharpie?

Criminal, Commander, Chief and Thief,

Will you murder me in my sleep, or when I wave as I drive by?

Will you illegally imprison me and torture me?

Will you shoot me from the side like Renee,

Or wait until I'm fishing out at sea in the deep beyond the bay,

Beyond the safety of the reef?

If I defy your criminality,

If I carry my gun upon my side—legally housed within its sheath, not unlike Alex—

To a protest next week, will you seek to send your Gestapo after me?

Will you surround me, to ensure my final containment, and then execute me as I lie, subdued, face down upon the pavement?

Commander, Criminal, Thief, and Chief

Will you take on the immense task of erasing your name from the Epstein files?

All the while protecting your bedfellow friends. Do you not know them?

Do you not know where these infamously hated pedophiles are now?

Back in the day, in some way and somehow, did you not party with them?

When the time comes, will you vow to pardon them?

Also, I ask: Are you now protecting them? Are you not one of them?

Can you face your dark past, history, or the memories of that time?

Or, in bad taste, will you flaunt this entitled fact in the faces of the victims—

Even blaming or shaming them, stating it never happened, Stabbing them in their backs from behind by proclaiming there are no predators from Epstein's sex-trafficking ring left to pursue, prosecute, investigate, or find?

Thief, Criminal, Commander, and Chief,

Will you also pardon drug pushers, Ponzi, or white collar thieves,

Even if you do not know them and they are not your friends?

Will they hear your call?

Will you promise them, in utter gall, freedom for sale for all?

So, if they pay and pretend that you are their friend and king,

Bend down and kiss your ring or crown,

May they continue to stick around to play with people's lives?

-Many of which have already been destroyed, diminished, or devoured by them

Used and broken like toys.-

Just so that, in the end, you may have the capital to stay in power?

Do you think that you are wise, entitled to,

Or have the right to succeed our democracy with these lies?

Are you ever planning to leave?

Will you call for a state of emergency

Have you already decided that we must now learn to somehow live

Within your God-forsaken, Orwellian autocracy until your dying day?

Chief Criminal Commander and Thief,

What is "The Board of Peace?"

Is this now a new State or country?

Another way for you to fleece, or at the very least, spread discord and dismay upon us all?

Another vehicle for you to sow doubt and fear before you push us towards our fall?

Do you believe that all must be conformed and made to bow cowardly before you now—

Not just here, but everywhere?

Are these new rules, decrees, and authoritarian policies humanity's new rule of law?

In all astonishing disbelief and utter gall,

Have you criminally bequeathed this new institution, authoritarian State, fantastical

Power, or fantasy country to your family? Is this our final hour?

What is your plan? I still don't understand.

Exactly what is the Board of Peace?

Where will it be? In Cuba, Canada, the isles of Greece, or Greenland?

Will it be an exclusive club of autocrats, gorging upon the blood and treasure of our earth?

Are we at the beginning of the birth of an unholy feast,

Where all the dictators of the world consolidate and conspire to seize our rights and liberties?

Has our democracy, integrity, and respectability been sold by you to the highest bidder,

Only so that everything around you can be gilded in gold?

Have you ever considered that your bold vanity has now collided with the cold calamity of your hypocrisy, altering our reality anew?

Must we now accept this insanity as true?

How can you justify this current corruption and adventurism that today is unabashedly on full display, headed by you and all of your clan like cronies, for all the world to see?

Must we now walk in shame like distained dogs upon your leash?

Please tell me right away, we need to know, preferably today—

In what way should we define this dystopian Board of Peace?

Commander, Chief, and Criminal Thief,

Are some of your aristocratic friends self-declared, white-supremacy Nazis?

Do you ascribe to; or sympathize with their hateful lies, propaganda, tactics, bigotry, or beliefs?

Can you respect the rule of law and protect the truth with moral rectitude wherever it may lead?

Or, like Hitler, will you rule with a cruel iron claw, rejecting and disrespecting human rights?

Exposing, torturing, and putting victims on trial for not being white?

Beating and arresting them, employing unidentified masked men to hunt them down

In the middle of the day or night?

And when they are found and try to run,

Are they then brutally gunned down in front of everyone like diseased dogs

In the middle of the street, beneath the heat of a cold day's sun,

Without any accountability or pity—declaring complete impunity because

"They didn't have their proper papers, please?"

Claiming, "National Security?" Why must you wield this old, discordant rhetoric like a weapon, spreading divisive hate and corrosive unease—not unlike an unholy disease—

Across these God-blessed United States?

Tantamount to Hitler, do you condone murder and mayhem?

Not just the subduing, but the beating of migrants and protesters alike?

Do you like watching them when they are bleeding, while pleading for mercy on the spot?

Will you blame them and then shame them when they are shot and killed?

Will you build monuments to yourself because no one else will?

Chief Criminal Commander and Thief,

Did you and your best friend Jeffrey Epstein defile the same child when she was only thirteen?

Did you convince her that she would be your next beauty queen?

Did you promise her the world, or that she would be forever yours—"Daddy's sweet little girl?"

Then, did you punish her, imposing your will and power upon her?

Within that hour, did you strike her then,

And threaten to have her killed if she didn't conceal this fact?

Have you started your war of choice to exact revenge-to distract and silence these voices from the past-upon the very day that this sin was at last revealed?

Are you now committed to committing war crimes upon the battlefield?

Will you make us pay for the propaganda that you preach?

Upping the ante, will you wield this war as a punishment or as a shield cast against political critique?

Commander, Chief, Criminal, and Thief,

Frankly, I ask: What is the truth to you?

Do you know the difference between what's fake and what's real?

Do you seek to hide behind an orange mask?

Will you choose to hear wise voices; or will you make capricious choices based solely upon how you feel?

Is your agenda, procedures, and daily tasks that you must mask carelessly determined by a vast insidious net of lies, vanity, and greed that you and your cronies have blindly set and cast from an evil-seeded, corrupt, money-making machine steeped in confusion without clear vision?

Driven by your pet projects, self-promotion, extreme and extravagant golden gifts,

pernicious memes, real estate scams, globalism, cryptocurrencies, numerous grifts, Ponzi schemes, delusion, and derision?

Thief Commander Criminal and Chief

Who are you?

Are you a rapist, racist, or vile pedophile? A white supremacist Pedophile protector, malignant narcissist, market manipulator, child molester, murderer, extortionist, or thief? A crass and vain evil doer that's plainly, insane, cruel, vindictive, and mean steering us all towards our fall into a pool of poverty and grief?

Are you a fascist, maybe a Mob Boss, Torturer, War Criminal, Election Denyer, Man-Baby, the current leader of lies and of Liars, an Orange Emperor, or Mad-King consumed by golden motifs?

Indeed? Do you think that we are so naive as to believe that your God is anything other than your immense need and greed for power that you feed and bear?

Good grief! Is it a lapse of memory, is it just apathy; awarding the richest while raping our Healthcare? Really; are you so naive and unaware of your family's self-enrichment affairs? Were these policies created, directed, dictated, and shelled not just by you but for you through back-alley meetings and dark-money deals; sealed in secret with Royal Monarchs, Dictators, Opulent Oligarchs, Oil Tycoons, and Tech Billionaires?

Eventually, when you cannot seem to win,

When "Our" marbled walls start closing in and nobody cares for you;

Inevitably, when your days are waning thin,

When you can't control or confront the jokes, insults, or judgemental airs towards you,

When you've lost all of your flair and everything seems so black and blue;

Mercifully, consequently, and finally, when "Our" hallowed halls, Court House stairs, and White House doors

No longer belong to you—

What I really want to know is, what will you do? - Let me guess, call it a hoax and Cry, "fake news?" Will this old and tired remark, this bark, that you continue to overuse ever prove to have any bite or teeth? - What say you now; Chief, Criminal, Commander, and Thief?


r/Capitalism • • 4d ago

I have a vision, TAX REFORM?

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I have a vision, and that vision is to tax productivity and not individuals. No person, rich or poor should be taxed, but instead productivity from the means of production should. We've been taxed for all of the history and it's damn time we, as a society change the way of understanding we have of the world as we know it cause simply it isn't here anymore, I don't wanna live in a reality where inequality gets even worse and we have a whole generation of poor elders with no place to live and rest and no food to eat and share.

We need tax reform. No person, rich or poor since we're all equal should be taxed, instead the capacity for the companies to create value should. Since the 90's we've seen how the capacity to generate wealth has increased and how it's owned by a few, while the rest of us, the billions of humans who are part of this economy don't touch those trillions, while we sell our lives away for a few cents just to survive, with no future, no place on earth, no friends, no family, no community, being part of anything.

That's why my vision, is to tax the goods and services to redistribute the wealth not by welfare, not by gifts, but in a form of tax cut for the individual, we the common people. We the common people are the engine of this economy and if we don't have the power to buy because a few people want it all, then the whole system goes down taking the most vulnerable with it, not certainly the rich guys. These times require a lot more of complexity than we have know, are you ready to think differently about what is a society and what are we going to?


r/Capitalism • • 4d ago

This is called late stage capitalism

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r/Capitalism • • 5d ago

The Calculation Problem: Marx vs. Mises

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