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minus-squarePyr@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·19 days agoWhy do we have monuments for victims of communism and not monuments for victims of capitalism?
minus-squareAmidFuror@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·19 days agoBecause capitalism is the normal order of things going back for millennia.
minus-squarefonix232@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up16·19 days agoMillennia? Fuck off. Capitalism in itself is barely a few hundred years old. Use of a designated tender (money) is NOT capitalism.
minus-squarePyr@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·19 days agoAh, yes. It’s the first system that freshly evolved monkeys created thousands of years ago. It must surely be the best system to stick with.
minus-squaregmtom@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·19 days agoYeah because we totally had a ruling class of billionaires exploiting a sticks and shares system in Byzantine times 🤡
minus-squareohulancutash@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·19 days agoBarely 200 years, but good effort.
Why do we have monuments for victims of communism and not monuments for victims of capitalism?
Because capitalism is the normal order of things going back for millennia.
Millennia? Fuck off. Capitalism in itself is barely a few hundred years old. Use of a designated tender (money) is NOT capitalism.
Ah, yes. It’s the first system that freshly evolved monkeys created thousands of years ago. It must surely be the best system to stick with.
This must be sarcasm.
Yeah because we totally had a ruling class of billionaires exploiting a sticks and shares system in Byzantine times 🤡
Barely 200 years, but good effort.