America Is Running Out of Everything The global supply chain is slowing down at the very moment when Americans are demanding that it go into overdrive. By Derek Thompson

  • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    This is always a good point to bring up with left-leaning folks who are still holding on to the idea that some heavily-regulated form of capitalism might be OK. Even if you manage the gargantuan task of putting even basic limits on capitalism to mitigate its worst effects, those limits are just going to get chipped away again in a few decades at most. Capitalism is corrosive to any restrictions applied to it.

    • Des [she/her, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      my younger dumbass lib self used to say "capitalism is a raging river and we just have to dam it to make it useful". i guess the analogy while libshit sort of still makes sense if the river is made of sulfuric acid