Post #4047642
2026-07-16 07:07 UTC
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@Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-16 07:32
what we’re doing now isn’t capitalism, it’s corporatocracy. Capitalism is an ideology that favors the accumulation of capital over all else and, corporations being the most effective vehicle for doing so, corporatocracy is an inevitable component of it. It’s the end stage of capitalism, the part of the Monopoly game where one guy has all the properties except the dude with the railroads, and the rest of us are hoping to land on Free Parking. AKA the goal of capitalism. Monopoly was originally called The Landlord’s Game, and was created by a Georgist as a critique of and warning against the inevitable consequences of capitalism and rent seeking as well as an education tool about Georgism. It even had a cooperative game mode where the goal was to beat the bank by engaging in the kind of mutually beneficial trade that’s antithetical to capitalism. That Parker Brothers (now Hasbro) took it and turned it into a popular CELEBRATION of rent seeking is exactly the kind of bullshit Elizabeth Magie was trying to warn people about. There’s no (beneficial) innovation. There’s no competition. And that’s a natural consequence of capitalism. Contrary to the pro-capitalism gaslighting, capitalism is NOT about improving conditions for the many via healthy competition. It’s about increasing the wealth of the privileged few by eliminating competition.
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@flandish@lemmy.world 2026-07-16 10:04
just to be a pedantic ass: the “end stage” of capitalism is still capitalism. it’s like the end stage of cancer is still called cancer; we need to continue to reference the fact that capitalism is destroying all it touches. new phrases or labels only cleave attention spans in a world already designed (by capitalism) to have no focus.