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I realize this isn't really the place for this discussion but capitalism doesn't know what the word "efficient" means. Is it efficient to have to buy the same thing twice? Is it efficient to only make cheap shitty and yet still overpriced versions of everything for the consuming public, shit that is designed to fail? Is pollution efficient? Is ruining everyone's lives efficient? Pointless jobs? Rich people? These things are efficient the way fucking for virginity is efficient. The way Elon's Twitter has been efficient. The way shitting the bed is efficient. Which is to say, it's really fucking not.
Capitalism is effective at cleaning up inefficiency, at least if it's allowed to run its course. Twitter, for instance: if it crashes and burns, all the talent in there will be free to move to doing something better instead. If it somehow succeeds, that's a more obvious net benefit as well.
Why do people buy cheap and shitty things?
What is this referring to? Obviously not efficient.
That's a total waste, and these would be removed in an efficient market.
In a free market system, rich people happen because they've provided something that others want, or made good investments.
Pollution is indeed a problem that require global solutions. CO2 markets, for instance, are a thing.
capitalism is only good at stealing wealth from the working class
What about space travel? Preclaimer: I'm a physics student. Before SpaceX and Indian companies, one ESA launch cost like 500 million dollars, which was impossible to achieve for scientists without direct ESA funding. Now, suddenly physicists can launch small satellites with less than a million.
and do you genuinely attribute that to capitalism or is that a necessary process that comes with developing a new technology and the infrastructure and expertise to operate it
do you genuinely not believe that that would have happened anyway
i'm sure it'd be hard to disentangle all the influences and come up with hard numbers for "how much" "capitalism" "contributed" and how much farther along cheap space flight is than it would have been under some nonexistent alternative system for which we have no real world examples, but to suggest space flight would not have gotten any cheaper than its initial price would be a tough position to defend, let's put it that way.
And then let's put it another way. Do you not think that a focused society, one run properly and without corruption (ie not human), could develop space flight faster, safer, and cheaper, than it could do while burdened with a bunch of greedy thieves who spend more of their resources on bribing politicians, lining their own pockets, and lying to the public about their products through the marketing department than they do on actual technological development?
Capitalism's shit, m8. Just one big lie from start to finish with not a redeeming moment in between. It's a vampire and you're its food. Do you care if your food has opinions?