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[–] Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I guess it depends on if you define capitalist as someone who owns capital or simply someone who believes in the economic ideology that is capitalism, i.e., you believe land, labor, and capital ought to be privately rather than socially owned. But I suppose that's the point of the graffiti, that if you are not the capital-owning type, then you're probably just stockholm syndrome-d into being a believer in the economic ideology that is capitalism.

But what I also find interesting is that our current system isn't purely capitalist, as we have all sorts of instances by which land or labor or capital aren't privately owned. For instance, when we tax labor, we're partially socializing ownership of people's labor, which is something a purely capitalist system wouldn't do. Heck, not even a purely socialist system would tax labor, because socialism is about social ownership of land and capital, but not labor.

All that said, however, we are certainly closer to capitalism than any other economic system, but still worthwhile to consider the endless complexity that is the economy and how we attempt to describe it. Not even sure where I'm going with this comment anymore, but I hope someone out there finds it at least mildly interesting.

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

I liked your ramble :)