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What do capitalists get right? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 9 months ago by janus2@lemmy.zip to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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I think one depressing example is innovation in weapons and other dangerous fields. "If we don't build it, someone else will first" is unfortunately historically been shown to be true, has it not?

Today's unsavory borderline reactionary doomposting brought to you by: my crippling fear that I'm isolating myself in a political echo-chamber (so naturally I gotta hop online and exclusively ask my fellow leftists)

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[–] CDommunist@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It really is, and socialists under estimate how important corndogification is for the masses

[–] ProfessorAdonisCnut@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago

corn-man-khrush understood exactly the wrong half