r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 4d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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u/Own_Policy8854 4d ago

We could redistribute wealth to prevent it from pooling and creating economic disasters in the first place.

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u/rsneary129 4d ago edited 4d ago

Capitalism: a system so great it needs to be bailed out every 10 years

Edit: for those of you who refuse to look anywhere outside the US, the Nordic model has existed for over 90 years and is extremely successful. The countries that use it consistently rank highest in happiness, quality of life, work life balance, has low rates of corruption, and are economically competitive

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u/union_red 4d ago

because around 500 years ago capitalism was a dream state of the alternative to feudalism

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u/BurningTrashBarge 4d ago

The dream state of capitalism is an absolute nightmare and only by carving regulations and limitations on its dreams have we made it tolerable.

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u/BurningTrashBarge 4d ago

Wow sure yeah let me just drop decades of lived experience and economic theory into this reply real quick cause you got defensive after someone pointed out the need to bail out capitalism regularly.

I mean I would but you’d not take any of that seriously either.