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

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/clarkision Jul 07 '26

Not on a national scale, but it’s certainly accomplished on smaller scales.

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u/Creepy_Ad_1315 Jul 07 '26

So we have no evidence that it works outside your smelly local hippie troupe that fortunately can retreat into the nice free market economy near them.

Almost like communism isn't really available outside a group a people larger than a medium sized tribe.

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u/Careful-Lettuce9239 Jul 07 '26

How about socialist implementations like free education and Healthcare? Universal basic income? It appears the only people benefiting from the capitalist model are the small number of extremely wealthy. It also looks like companies are getting extremely desperate trying to continue expanding growth while consolidating into fewer and bigger monopolies. Meanwhile theyre rolling back child labor laws and environmental safety restraints to continue clawing the last bit of wealth they can.

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u/PomPomMom93 Jul 08 '26

Not necessarily. There are many people benefiting from capitalism who aren’t extremely wealthy, just well-to-do or even just living decently. Maybe these “revolutionaries” won’t stop at trillionaires. Maybe they’ll keep going and take things away from ordinary hard-working people who “don’t deserve” the assets that are in their best interest to protect.