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[–] FakinUpCountryDegen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (9 children)

I mean... I'm a capitalist who doesn't defend billionaires and also doesn't feel left out... ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[–] gayhitler420@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Are you though?

Do you own the means of production and employ people to operate it, paying them a fraction of the value their labor produces?

Are you able to live comfortably without working for the foreseeable future? Do you exert outsized control over municipal, regional and state government far beyond your “vote” if you live in a place that claims to be a democracy? Does that control come from your power over the means of production that you control?

Supporting a society controlled by the people described above does not make you a capitalist, being one of the people described above does.

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[–] irmoz@reddthat.com -1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

If you support capitalism, then yes, you defend billionaires.

[–] Flumsy@feddit.de -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If that were the case (which it isnt) I dont see a problem defending billionaires (and on the side also everybody's freedom and justice)...

[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can't defend billionaires and justice at the same time

[–] Flumsy@feddit.de -1 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Why not? Capitalism is the most fair system to me.

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[–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's the other way round. The fear of being left out makes the lemmies dance off a cliff.

(I know, the movie was fake.)

The capitalist sees that the lemmies keep dancing without wondering why the music is playing.

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[–] LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The delusional thought process is fantastic.

You have, maybe 2k users here, defederate a new insurance a day, and users are constantly finding lack of content; but yeah it's the normal user who is quite in the corner 🤣

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