r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 9h ago

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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u/rsneary129 9h ago edited 8h ago

Capitalism: a system so great it needs to be bailed out every 10 years

Edit: for those of you who refuse to look anywhere outside the US, the Nordic model has existed for over 90 years and is extremely successful. The countries that use it consistently rank highest in happiness, quality of life, work life balance, has low rates of corruption, and are economically competitive

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u/H20memes 8h ago edited 6h ago

Any other system ends up with millions dead from starvation, I think I'll take capitalism

Edit: Lots of commies in this sub, just gonna leave this image here :)

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u/union_red 8h ago

capitalism is killing around 25k a day through starvation because it isnt profitable to feed everyone and would rather farm cash crops. I mean there a countries where capitalist bought all the land to farm cash crops leaving nowhere for the people to farm food

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u/RartedRat 8h ago

Millions per year would be the case with Communism as proven by Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot. Profit from food sales is the only thing that motivates farmers to make as much food as possible. Also, never before has the world seen nearly as much philanthropy as after Captialism dominated.

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u/rsneary129 8h ago

You know there are more economic models than just capitalism and communism, right?

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u/union_red 8h ago

no there is documentation that in the ussr they had better food then in the us. clearly china is doing fine. and pol pot was never communist. capitalism puts millions into food insecurity so they can grow cash crops. communism puts meeting people basics needs as the priority so they focus on making enough food to feed the citizens. also no profit isnt the only motivation for farming people have been farming for millenia and capitalism is only about 500 years old

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u/H20memes 6h ago

USSR had better food?

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u/union_red 6h ago edited 6h ago

better as in healthier

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp84b00274r000300150009-5

edit to add heres the kicker their food was free