Not really, and I say this being a communist myself. Capitalism just requires to extract the maximum profit from the capital investment, sometimes it leads to what you said, sometimes it leads to the opposite (e.g. no difference between i5 1st gen and i5 8th gen)

will urge

You literally make the laws

Funnily enough, I’m Spanish and the meme is somehow also accurate here?

When did I say I want to be a parasite? I want to abolish CEOs, not become one of them

But few people, who are qualified for that job

CEOs do nothing. They rake in millions, and hire advisors to tell them what to do

Not how it works. Public transport isn’t dying due to lack of demand, it’s dying because of neoliberal policy and budget cuts in government spending are the norm for the past 30 years. As an example, in Tallinn public transport is free to use for all residents. 90% of residents agree that this is a good thing. Their government is going to drop it anyway.

Even taking into account a little traffic I’d still spend 2x times the amount of time going to work compared to going by car. Not to mention it’d cost about 20-30% of my net wage to do so daily.

So you agree that public transit is underfunded and shitty? That was exactly my point.

In most of the capitalist world, transit is getting increasingly defunded and low quality, except high speed rail in some countries (which idk if counts as transit)

“Grassroots organization raises $500k for the establishment”

Capitalism.

Damn, thank you

That’s how we pronounce it in Spain! Actually the H has no sound, so she’s just “er-me-on”

How’s it actually pronounced???

Me as a grown-ass Spaniard right now: wait, it’s not pre-face? Is it pre-fis?

freedom for laborers was indeed a defining feature of capitalism. I’m not sure that puts the OP fighting against that system in a good light

“Not sure fighting against feudalism and saying that in antiquity there was slavery instead puts the fight in a good light”

Anyway, comoditized labor is nearly dead

Do you know what you’re talking about? How is commodity-labor nearly dead? What percentage of people engage in free contracts in which they exchange their labor for a wage? I’d say the vast majority.

the 20th century created that entire labor market oligopsony thing. “You’ll never work on this city again!” was something so feared that it entered plenty of movies.

Ok? That’s not a defining feature of capitalism, ofc some things change but that’s not even reflected in any Marxist literature I’ve read. Why do you insist we’re in something fundamentally different? I feel like you haven’t read on the topic

No gambling though

If you don’t wanna be insulted, don’t simp for the oppressors. I’d insult you if you said “I love absolutist monarchy!”

A stock-price bubble is the opposite of a good example in my opinion. Dumb techbros hyping a company to the point where it has a higher capitalization than literal Volkswagen group, because the stock price kept inflating. What percentage of the stock owners of Tesla 4 years ago are the same as nowadays? I’d bet it’s low

For all of feudalism, serfs (majority of the population) worked the fields not for a wage on a free contract (i.e. commodity labor), but bounded legally to the land by the local aristocrat. That’s why it wasn’t capitalism.

I specifically made a mention to free markets, and to workers selling their labor as a commodity, in my comment.

You’re wrong in your analysis. The system hasn’t qualitatively changed. It’s still a system with an owning class and a working class. The difference is that capital now, as you say, mostly revalorizes in the financial sector instead of in the industrial sector. But capitalism is called capitalism, not industrialism.

Lenin already talked about this in his 1916 treatise “Imperialism: the highest form of capitalism”. He describes the process of concentration of capital that took place over the 19th and especially the beginnings of the 20th century, the consolidation of trusts and cartels, and the financialization of the economy. You’re describing nothing new, he calls this phase of capitalism “imperialism”. But it is a phase of capitalism, the social relations haven’t been changed, workers still have to sell their labor force as a commodity, goods and services are exchanged in the free market, and the owners of capital, be it financial or industrial, rake the surplus value from the workers.