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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
“Unchecked capitalism took advantage of the slightest hint of socialism, therefore, socialism is the problem.”
And I didn’t even need an essay for it.
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Capitalism was checked in certain avenues. Cars? The car market absolutely crashed. New and used. Used cars are now cheaper in many instances than they were before Covid. Rebates in the 10's of thousands are back on new. Walk in to a Best Buy right now. The shelves are bursting and they are discounting everything. One of my customers is a GM at Best Buy, and he says it's grim.
Necessities are where we are getting killed. People need homes, they need food, they need gas they have no choice. Socialist policies opened the door for those guys to crush everyone. And they did. The market can still bear it.
It's a chicken or egg scenario at this point. Are the grocery store owners/ceos gigantic asshats for doing what they are doing? Yes and no. Yes their costs have gone up, but double and triple. Absolutely not.
You may say Socialism is the answer? But it is what created the market conditions for this to happen. Free money for anyone with their hand out. Punitive policies that drive the cost of everything up. They are capitalising on it, hence, capitalism, that's how it works.
After all is said and done, I'd still rather pay 8 bucks for a carton of eggs, than continue down this rabbit hole than live under ANY form of Socialism or Communism. The damage is done, and all that can be done is let the wound heal, and hope it doesn't re-open wider and deeper. I'd really prefer future Canadian generations don't have to live in a hellscape economy like Argentina or Venezuela... and soon to come, Brazil. Because our current trajectory has us pointed in that direction.