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Late Stage Capitalism

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's not a contradiction in economics, it's a contradiction in narrative. This is how capitalism has functioned since Columbus. Take the tiniest European nation and it benefited at some point from militarism, colonization, oppression, imprisonment, cheap desperate labor, etc. that's the system.