Post #3589690

2026-07-04 20:36 UTC

I feel like the actual “Average Capitalism Enjoyer” is someone making or reading memes online… On their phones. The enjoyment of Capitalism is made ambient by simply owning stuff Capitalism has produced. However here we have to say some things: Not all the systems or technology that enabled this were done for Capitalism in today’s model, and most weren’t. Society was a lot more creative and progressing much faster, and with more freedom before today’s system of survival Capitalism, with it’s prevelant race to the bottom morality which produces very little of value. Another iPhone, space ship, data center, or 5 cent T-shirt with custom slogan… These are the articles of modern Capitalism. They contain very little to most people. No one wishes to live and die for these “rewards”, thus very few of us are enjoying this. The memes are broken.

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@pineapple@lemmy.ml 2026-07-04 23:25

Why is there this idea that personal property such as phones are specific to capitalism? Why does making or reading memes have anything to do with enjoying capitalism? Other social orders also allow for making memes and using phones. Although I do agree most people don’t benefit from capitalism, only the top 1% do so yeah the meme doesn’t really make sense in that respect.

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@CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 2026-07-05 00:19

today’s system of survival Capitalism it’s not “today’s system”, this is not a different kind of capitalism we are living through; it’s simply the logical continuation of capitalism. Capitalism means profiting from owning. This systematically means, as the meme says, “line goes up”. The line must go up, otherwise owning stops being profitable, and capitalism stops. We’re just at a point where the avenues to keep growth going are becoming harder and costlier to reach, and each time those avenues are explored, they make the next ones costlier. So we’re all getting squeezed, both as workers (mass layoffs, multiple jobs etc), and as consumers (enshittification, product quality deterioration, price increases). This is unavoidable; European countries that are currently more livable than the US will inevitably face this as well, they just took the scenic route

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