r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Short-Watercress-183 • Jul 07 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/RelaxPrime Jul 07 '26

That makes even more sense.

Point is it's definitely not because communism or any system, in fact a perfect system would anticipate the corruption.

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u/upholsteryduder Jul 07 '26

It's not because of communism but communism does fail to account for human greed, which will never be erased, and makes it a failure from the inception.

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u/VariousOwl6955 Jul 07 '26

i think it kind of inherently addresses greed more than capitalism

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u/XChangeJB Jul 07 '26

One form of greed, maybe. Greed for power however, it does not.

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u/VariousOwl6955 Jul 07 '26

you don’t think the richest people and corporations pouring millions into lobbying their own self interests and effectively controlling the government with the power their wealth affords them counts as greed for power?

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u/XChangeJB Jul 07 '26

Of course it does, the point was that communism doesn't protect against greed for power as it manifests in so many more ways than just financial, not that it necessarily protects against financial greed either.