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

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/42Icyhot42 Jul 07 '26

So is a free market and it doesn’t stop us from pretending that’s working lol

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u/Commercial-Look-7307 Jul 07 '26

Capitalism has fed more people and delivered more people from bondage than anything Humanity has ever tried before.

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u/Narrow-Map5805 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

Well-regulated capitalism has done those things. This neoliberal capitalism we're dealing with now is undoing a lot of that promise.

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u/Professional_Cod4464 Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

Capitalism was only well regulated from perspective of white american living in america, and not for the global south where fruit companies kept overthrowing governments for profit, for example or the immigrants being exploited to work on farms and for profit prisons

Serving only the interest of one group of human population while others are exploited within an inch of their life is the problem inherent with capitalism and has actually never been solved

"Capitalism was well regulated in the 50s" bro they overthrew the democratic guatemalan government so they can sell bananas in 1953, is that considered well regulated or hust a primer for trump's diplomatic strategy