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The Admiral posted...

It's virtually impossible to make an cogent argument against capitalism in general, given that it has single-handedly done more to lower global poverty and starvation and lift this planet's standard of living than any single other factor in world history.

The best argument against capitalism is that it's too effective at what it does. To the point where the vast majority of labor opportunities will go to machines in due course.

Which does mean drastic imbalances in power, unless the marginal costs of doing business go towards $0 and the state and local communities/cities can then implement their own decentralized services. That way everyone has food, energy, housing, and financial resources as an output of shared prosperity from machines.

Marxists are way too focused on taking down the bourgeoisie and identity politics garbage. Instead of focusing on making everyone the bourgeoisie and facilitating conditions that make it easier for cities to ditch Comcast and just build their own telecommunications infrastructure without seeking a profit.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190102/07265341316/towns-cities-keep-ditching-comcast-to-build-their-own-broadband-networks.shtml

Marx was right about the dangers of monopolies and Marxists tend to be right about the market being unable to do everything we should want it to do as a modern species in 2019.

But they're wrong in enough ways that to intentionally try to implement everything Marx said would be idiotic.
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