• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    That’s called fraud, and it violates consent, and it’s therefore not a free market activity, which makes it more of a breakdown of capitalism than the thing itself.

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      4 months ago

      Hey its called catfishing and for some of us it’s the only way we can get a date…

      Signed - definitely not a restaurant totally super hunky dream guy

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        4 months ago

        From wikipedia:

        Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit

        Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, price systems, private property, property rights recognition, self-interesteconomic freedom, meritocracy, work ethic, consumer sovereignty, profit motive, meritocracy, entrepreneurship, commodification, voluntary exchange, wage laborand the production of commodities.

        (emphasis mine)

        What definition are you using?

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          The other one on Wikipedia:

          The capitalist mode of production is characterized by private ownership of the means of production, extraction of surplus value by the owning class for the purpose of capital accumulation, wage-based labour and—at least as far as commodities are concerned—being market-based.