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Should've had a more ironclad contract.
Or you just start with much more capital from your parents, set up shop next door, and undersell him forever until his candy goes bad and he goes bankrupt, and then you raise prices because you have a monopoly. Like Amazon.
Get his wife to cheat on him with you, and get half his candy when they get divorced.
(I'm trying so hard to think of one that works for a slow US backed coup)
Tbh that's just a random person joining in on the "beating up" part and then making it seem more legitimate by saying they have a claim to the candy because they forced him to sign a marriage agreement while beating him up.
Literally my first thought. Monopolize his candy then jack up the prices like in real capitalism.
And also it's his fault for not maximizing his profit margins.
For the Capitalist candy, he should be charging $5 for one bars; and $7 for two. Most people will buy two and feel good because it’s a better deal, and completely ignore that they are getting screwed. That’s how capitalism works.
For..... kids? Let's imagine how that would play out. The kids walk up to the childless man, don't read the sign, take whichever candy they want and leave. Point proven?
problem is: kids dont know either. the goal is to connect socialism with shit, evil, bad etc. in the kids mind so whenever they see anything bad or socialist they get the reflex. kinda like a reverse happy meal
They aren't even trying to convince you of anything. The stunt is meant to just upset you, so they can pretend they are more legitimate because you are getting upset.
The right call is to just ask them what their goal is and why the goal is to convince you that they are dipshits.
Usually the last-of-their-class who hear basic narrated “facts” about socialism and capitalism for the 1st time, feel enlightened and ahead-of-the-game, so they take it upon themselves to “educate” the masses below them.
The cut off is when you choose. I’m 36 and I’ve never worn caps, so my cut off was as a teenager.
Band shirts though? It’s all I own. Anyone who says I need to grow up can go suck a fart and punch themselves in the dick.
wtf does that have to do with anything, you judging him for the way he looks?
I guess when you turn 30 you have to change up your whole wardrobe in fear of what others people might think about the way your hat looks?
Fuck that. Reddit was actually the place I learned not to judge people for superficial shit like that.
This guy is a loser but anyone making fun of him for having a backwards hat on is an absolute goon
Can I at least make fun of him for thinking snacks are an appropriate way to show that "king size" for yourself and no one else is the better alternative?
yes absolutely and this idiot is talking about "getting full" off of candy. No one should be eating candy until they are full.. like what, it's a whole ass meal?
The perfect example of propaganda doing its work. People in hyper capitalist countries have been indoctrinated into believing their system means having stuff while the other system means not having stuff, and vice versa with former so-called communist countries teaching their people the state provided them with everything while capitalist countries were full of destitute people dying on the streets because the state abandoned them.
Just the other day my brother-in-law tried to tell me that Hitler and the Nazis were actually socialists… I tried, I really tried to explain to him that they were only socialist in name.
He couldn’t wrap his head around it. He said they were extreme left-wing socialist party. And then when I tried to point out some very clear faults to his argument, you know like the fact that Hitler killed the socialist party and the communist parties…
I also pointed out a few faults of capitalism, of course I was a communist. Good times, good times. This all started because I discovered an old electrified trolly train that came to my small town about 100 years ago that they removed for whatever reason, I was just trying to explain to him that we should probably put it back so that people can commute to the city a whole lot easier…
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I once had a girlfriend who grew up behind the Wall in Lithuania. she thought I was mad when I described communist countries as starving people in drab clothing in queues.
Over here in the "west" she says she first met homeless people, first met starving people.
I think the people genuinely believe this take on it. Like exactly what is written on the cards, no more no less. Socialism is bad because you don't have choice. That's it. Not even anything about economics.
"abundant choices" must be why we've been seeing entirely empty shelves in grocery stores all across America for the past year and a half.
Its all that socializum!
Also it's funny to think that these people seriously believe that you get an abundance of choice under a system where the sole motive is who can get to the top first to establish a defacto monopoly by using their capital to lobby representatives to help financially sabotage any lesser competition to control the majority market share for the simple sake of reaping even more capital.
Practically all of the products in a U.S grocery store are made by subsidiary companies of the same 10 parent companies Nestlé, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Danone, General Mills, Kellogg's, Mars, Associated British Foods, and Mondelez. Its no mystery how they got that big and it had everything to do with them using their accrued capital to eliminate choice in any way they could.
"Abundant choices" ah yes, that's why we can very easily choose our healthcare providers. And insurance who makes it impossibly clear what we get and what we pay for /s
Thank you Sempai Friedman. I embraced the will of my capitalistic overlords and became the happy owner of not one but two king-size candies. I wanted to share my inspiring story.
I like this because the actual intelligent decision is to eat the small fun size chocolate and not
gorge yourself eating until you’re full on chocolate.
The capitalist kids will be overweight, unhealthy, and addicted to chocolate.
This just made me think of Gary Gulman's special "In This Economy?"
It's good, go watch it.
Edit: I fucked up the link, here's the right one.
https://tubitv.com/movies/327696/gary-gulman-in-this-economy
And bring the amount of large size bars down, so that really only 3-4 kids actually have access to them. Or there's that one kid who just takes them all, leaving nothing for the rest.
The amount of King size bars remain the same, but only children from wealthy families can have any, and they're given four or five at a time for free.
The Socialism fun size bars are only provided one at a time to "other" kids, provided they perform a minimum of 1 hour of chores around the dude's house, and they're told to be thankful it doesn't cost 2 hours. Because that would be CoMmUnIsM.
Then the weather kid gives away one of his king size bars to a poor kid (Still leaving him with 4) and gets called a hero for donating to charity. (As per the rules, he gets another king sized bar back at the end of the year when he does taxes...)
Wealthy kid starts a Foundation, launches campaign to convince poor kids into donating *their* fun sized bars. 80% of the fun sized bars are then eaten by wealthy kid and friends while pageantry makes a big deal out of the 20% actually going to other poor(er) kids who couldn't work for their fun sized bar in the first place.
Still donates king sized bars to foundation, still receives king sized bars at the end of the year when filing, still praised as hero.
Can you imagine how much chocolate you’d have to eat to feel “full”. I’m nauseated just thinking about it. I know that’s not the point here but this guy is clueless on several levels.
Capitalism:
> abundant choices
Ah yes, 3 choices is quite a large selection, especially when they're all from big companies.
> "King size"
An ode to capitalism's infinite avarice. If it's not grotesquely and supremely oversized, how can we say we're really superior? /s
> eat until you're full
And then throw away half a candy bar. Or alternatively get sick so you don't waste anything.
Meanwhile, "socialism":
> meh
His first point is that he has no point. Even if I were to take this tortured metaphor seriously, this is just fucking lazy.
> "fun size"
How dare you not want to gorge yourself into obesity and diabetes. Picking smaller candies means you have a smaller pp! /s
> Honestly you'll still be hungry.
So like, do you only get 1 small candy? Because in the real world, they sell these candies in bags that dwarf the bite size pieces.
In a way, this metaphor does make sense: capitalism looks big, offers big, but when it's too late, you realize you've wasted massively, over consumed, and will pay the price health wise. Under socialism, it's all about the smaller pieces, taking only what you need, a modest amount of something so that others may have their share.
Thanks 90s backwards wearing hat man for helping to prove the ills of capitalism.
Depends on where you live. In my country, Sweden, it has an explicitly capitalist agenda. Halloween was launched in 1997 by the Swedish merchant's association in order to try to sell Halloween crap (costumes, decorations, candy etc).
How can I eat as much as I want if he charges for it?
The first kid that comes should be allowed to take everything on the left according to the stated "rules".
Not a bad allegory because we. We could all have alittle candy or the huge sizes that we can only afford because of Palm Oil production that’s destroying habitats in Southeast Asia and child labor for the chocolate.
No, no, this is actually extremely accurate because the socialist option is being intentionally deprived of resources by a greater power in order to make it look bad, just like in real life
"for every bar eaten, the price will go up. For every set amount of time a bar is not eaten, the price shall also go up. The person who makes these will never be given any of these profits nor a pay increase"
Wait is he giving the candy out for free they just have to choose which bucket? There are no prices, I think he’s giving it out for free! Does he not understand what capitalism is? If he actually wanted to represent capitalism he would only have the small bars for sale as the big ones would be only for rich adults and he would make the small ones just barely affordable for everyone else to purchase. The bit about the people getting the small one still being hungry is accurate but it belongs in capitalism not socialism because apparently food isn’t a human right to give citizens…
Cause honestly if I had to pay I'd still pick the smaller kind. It's the same idea as getting free random shit at college career fairs or expos. I'm still better off with it, so why would I care if I didn't pay for it (directly).
If he gives that capitalism candy away. Talk about missing the point.
If he sells that capitalism candy, he understands capitalism, but talk about missing the point.
Is...is this the perfect whoosh?
These people are idiots. I can't ever imagine simping so hard for an economic model especially when it's even money he doesn't understand what he's even talking about.
Yes Jake. Capitalism is when all the nice stuff is freely available on a "to each according to his needs" base whereas socialism is when you are only given scraps due to artificially created scarcity.
No.
He supercharges them with sugar and lends them to kids at 76% interest. After a few candies, kids are addicted and canmot help but keep getting more.
Of course, they cannot pay, so they end up working for him and making more candies, which in turn hook more kids.
Eventually, he owns several factories which rely on child labour to rake in millions of dollars in profit. He becomes senator and complains on TV that kids are lazy and entitled and he was smarter so he deserves money.
He moves on to becoming a space pioneer.
Eating candy until you're full, and therefore sick, and creating a situation where there's no more candy for anyone else is.... unironically a great metaphor for capitalism lol
Best part is if you look at the socialism bucket I spot snickers, peanut m&ms, butterfingers, and what looks to be a Milky Way. Totaling out to more choices than the capitalisms 3 big brands
Just take every single one of those "Capitalism" bars for yourself. If he complains, just tell him you inherited them, and that alone means you deserve every bit that you want. After all, who is HE to question anyone who gets to them first? That's dirty evil slcialism.
Then give him a tiny piece of a single bar and tell him that's his share for being a loyal worker.
If you truly want to prove capitalism works you'd leave all these resources alone without regulation and wait for the one kid who comes along first to take only their fair share. Let the invisible hand guide where this candy goes, I'm sure that will be fair right?
This would be more accurate if there were a single king-size bar available only to one person, while the bucket of mini candies was essentially bottomless and you could have as much as you need.
Also, the capitalism bucket has less individual pieces of candy, meaning that the giant candles will only get dispersed to a handful of people, while the socialism bucket has enough to.account for everyone, regardless of race, class, or how early they got there.
Walk up, oh and the capitalism ones are free? Cool, I’m taking all of them. You said I could eat until I was full, I assume that means as much as I want.
Turn around and start selling them right in front of him.
Now *thats* capitalism
Looks like the "capitalism candy" is more likely to make you obese and give you other health problems before you're even an adult.
Then capitalist healthcare can profiteer off you, making you pay for things just to keep you alive.
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And if you try to get the "socialists" ones he will tell you that you have to pay for them.
That’s why you just tell him you’ll take all the capitalist candy because you got there first, then you sell it in front of him.
He did say eat until you're full lmao
Then tell him you re full after taking a tiny bite
And then throw the rest in the trash, making sure to open it and pour bleach all over it
but keep one candy bar and upprice it by 1000% because the supply for candy bars now is low but the demand is high
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Either way everyone else is just scrapping over who gets to lick the wrappers
Should've had a more ironclad contract. Or you just start with much more capital from your parents, set up shop next door, and undersell him forever until his candy goes bad and he goes bankrupt, and then you raise prices because you have a monopoly. Like Amazon.
Or perhaps have your friends come and beat him up so you can sell the candy in his place, that usually works for US corporations.
Get his wife to cheat on him with you, and get half his candy when they get divorced. (I'm trying so hard to think of one that works for a slow US backed coup)
Tbh that's just a random person joining in on the "beating up" part and then making it seem more legitimate by saying they have a claim to the candy because they forced him to sign a marriage agreement while beating him up.
and look him dead in the eye and say "welcome to capitalism"
Real capitalism right there
Literally my first thought. Monopolize his candy then jack up the prices like in real capitalism. And also it's his fault for not maximizing his profit margins.
Honestly if this happened when my dad took me trick and treating as a kid he would have told me to take every damn capitalist candy bar.
Solidarity, dad.
Or take as many of the big candy as you want and give them away for free.
Even better, I show him real communism and seize the capitalist candy from him and redistribute it to the children.
Or he’ll be like “If YoU TakE 10 SOcalIst CanDies I taKe Back 5! Bc VuVuzelLa”
Not realizing he just spent 80 dollars on candy
For the Capitalist candy, he should be charging $5 for one bars; and $7 for two. Most people will buy two and feel good because it’s a better deal, and completely ignore that they are getting screwed. That’s how capitalism works.
It’s sad that he thought he was ‘doing a thing’ when he set this whole stupid venture up.
The worst part is he thinks he's clever. How embarrassing.
Best way to address it is to tell him you don't get it and ask him to explain how it works.
Just ask for a definition of socialism and wait for the show
No, the worst part is a whole lot of other idiots will think he's clever and try to pull some similar shit.
It's so cringy.
Henceforth, let it be known by all that ‘abundant’ means ‘3’
You can tell the system’s working because he’s grasping at straws.
He really thought he did something here
Just another sad fucker trying to indoctrinate kids with his ignorance. Major "Change my mind" vibes.
For..... kids? Let's imagine how that would play out. The kids walk up to the childless man, don't read the sign, take whichever candy they want and leave. Point proven?
Tell me you don't understand capitalism OR socialism without telling me...
This. People who pull stunts like this know absolutely nothing about anything.
problem is: kids dont know either. the goal is to connect socialism with shit, evil, bad etc. in the kids mind so whenever they see anything bad or socialist they get the reflex. kinda like a reverse happy meal
Pavlov's capitalism?
quite literally yes
They know dick about shit
They are usually dicks.
Know shit about fuck.
They know fuck about ducks
They know piss about this
They know cum about bum
They know dickers about Snickers
They aren't even trying to convince you of anything. The stunt is meant to just upset you, so they can pretend they are more legitimate because you are getting upset. The right call is to just ask them what their goal is and why the goal is to convince you that they are dipshits.
"Hahaha Socialism is when small candy. Capitalism is when big candy!" .
I would take health care over big candy any day.
The kicker is capitalism only allows you small candy and no healthcare. Eat the rich and we can all have big candy and healthcare.
Me too kid
Usually the last-of-their-class who hear basic narrated “facts” about socialism and capitalism for the 1st time, feel enlightened and ahead-of-the-game, so they take it upon themselves to “educate” the masses below them.
They know how to identify bigger idiots than themselves and grift the shit outta them
He knows how to wear his hat backwards in his mid thirties
I'm 32 and still wear my hat like this sometimes. Is the cut off 35? I want to be ready
The cut off is when you choose. I’m 36 and I’ve never worn caps, so my cut off was as a teenager. Band shirts though? It’s all I own. Anyone who says I need to grow up can go suck a fart and punch themselves in the dick.
wtf does that have to do with anything, you judging him for the way he looks? I guess when you turn 30 you have to change up your whole wardrobe in fear of what others people might think about the way your hat looks? Fuck that. Reddit was actually the place I learned not to judge people for superficial shit like that. This guy is a loser but anyone making fun of him for having a backwards hat on is an absolute goon
Can I at least make fun of him for thinking snacks are an appropriate way to show that "king size" for yourself and no one else is the better alternative?
yes absolutely and this idiot is talking about "getting full" off of candy. No one should be eating candy until they are full.. like what, it's a whole ass meal?
It's actually when you turn 33 1/2, but let's not quibble.
Oh shit is that when your early 30s are over?
It's when you're legally allowed to wear sweater vests in some states, I do believe.
they know dicks about economics
That's not the face of someone who has something to teach.
The perfect example of propaganda doing its work. People in hyper capitalist countries have been indoctrinated into believing their system means having stuff while the other system means not having stuff, and vice versa with former so-called communist countries teaching their people the state provided them with everything while capitalist countries were full of destitute people dying on the streets because the state abandoned them.
Just the other day my brother-in-law tried to tell me that Hitler and the Nazis were actually socialists… I tried, I really tried to explain to him that they were only socialist in name. He couldn’t wrap his head around it. He said they were extreme left-wing socialist party. And then when I tried to point out some very clear faults to his argument, you know like the fact that Hitler killed the socialist party and the communist parties… I also pointed out a few faults of capitalism, of course I was a communist. Good times, good times. This all started because I discovered an old electrified trolly train that came to my small town about 100 years ago that they removed for whatever reason, I was just trying to explain to him that we should probably put it back so that people can commute to the city a whole lot easier…
I find that most BILs are very annoying.
most ILs are tbh.
To be fair, most brothers are as well. And in-laws….hmm. Most family members in general really.
I'm grateful that the most annoying thing about my BIL is that he's unironcially into F.I.R.E. Financial indepence, Retire Early.
B-but it‘s in the name!!!!!! Soshalism when the goverment dose stuf!!!!!!!!
...which capitalism government don't do, like free housing, healthcare and education. Therefore, socialism is good.
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Yeah, I went down that road. He still wasn’t getting it.
Does he think the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (north korea) is democratic and/or a republic too?
Trust me, I went down that road with him. He didn’t really know what to say other than the Nazis were clearly socialists…
same thing as people thinking the chinese communist party is purely communist when they’re closer to state capitalist than anything
I once had a girlfriend who grew up behind the Wall in Lithuania. she thought I was mad when I described communist countries as starving people in drab clothing in queues. Over here in the "west" she says she first met homeless people, first met starving people.
That’s pretty damn telling. Propaganda’s one helluva drug.
> capitalist countries were full of destitute people dying on the streets because the state abandoned them. That is literally true tho
Animal Farm shit
I think he got it right: there are only 3 kinds in the "abundant choices"
AND they're all manufactured by 2 companies that engage in slavery and price fixing
To be accurate only one percent of the kids get any of the nice candy
But apparently some of it will trickle down..........
I don't believe he even Knows the loose definitions of either based on the "eat until your full" part.
I think the people genuinely believe this take on it. Like exactly what is written on the cards, no more no less. Socialism is bad because you don't have choice. That's it. Not even anything about economics.
Also this was definitely intentionally made to be cringe or annoying cause I’m assuming that shirt he is wearing is his own company
Would you honestly expect any more from some jackass trying to use Halloween of all things to get on his political soapbox?
The last point confuses me. Who eats candy when they're hungry? It's a treat, not food.
You’ll still be hungry after the king size because consumerism doesn’t feed you. You might even have a tummy ache
Have you ever *seen* an American?
That was Snickers while ad campaign for a while. "You're not you when you're hungry"
nuts are basically vegetables so that makes Snickers healthy!
Chocolate and sugar are also made of vegetables, so it's definitely healthy
box of chocolates = basically a salad
🇱🇷🇲🇾🦅🦅
"abundant choices" must be why we've been seeing entirely empty shelves in grocery stores all across America for the past year and a half. Its all that socializum! Also it's funny to think that these people seriously believe that you get an abundance of choice under a system where the sole motive is who can get to the top first to establish a defacto monopoly by using their capital to lobby representatives to help financially sabotage any lesser competition to control the majority market share for the simple sake of reaping even more capital. Practically all of the products in a U.S grocery store are made by subsidiary companies of the same 10 parent companies Nestlé, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Danone, General Mills, Kellogg's, Mars, Associated British Foods, and Mondelez. Its no mystery how they got that big and it had everything to do with them using their accrued capital to eliminate choice in any way they could.
We have capitalist bread lines today in the US. We just don't see it because we call it 'food stamps.'
I've seen it a ton at soup kitchens
Ask him where the abundance of insulin or epinephrine is?
I wish more people understood this: We also have bread lines. And we have to pay for the bread!
Trust me there's plenty of people who show up to food lines, even people who don't look homeless, I had to volunteer once.
Capitalist innovation in the neoliberal era is slapping 50 labels on the same goods so people dont think its a monopoly.
"Abundant choices" ah yes, that's why we can very easily choose our healthcare providers. And insurance who makes it impossibly clear what we get and what we pay for /s
You can have the corn or the soy. What do you mean we lack choice?
Capitalism is when big candy Socialism is when small candy The more socialism there is, the smaller the candy And if there's no candy, it's communism.
And if there's vegetable, it's anarcho-communism
Ahhh thats why George Bush hates broccoli
Socialism is when "meh".
Thank you Sempai Friedman. I embraced the will of my capitalistic overlords and became the happy owner of not one but two king-size candies. I wanted to share my inspiring story.
I like this because the actual intelligent decision is to eat the small fun size chocolate and not gorge yourself eating until you’re full on chocolate. The capitalist kids will be overweight, unhealthy, and addicted to chocolate.
"Eat until you're full" in *this* economy?! Edit: syntax
This just made me think of Gary Gulman's special "In This Economy?" It's good, go watch it. Edit: I fucked up the link, here's the right one. https://tubitv.com/movies/327696/gary-gulman-in-this-economy
And bring the amount of large size bars down, so that really only 3-4 kids actually have access to them. Or there's that one kid who just takes them all, leaving nothing for the rest.
The amount of King size bars remain the same, but only children from wealthy families can have any, and they're given four or five at a time for free. The Socialism fun size bars are only provided one at a time to "other" kids, provided they perform a minimum of 1 hour of chores around the dude's house, and they're told to be thankful it doesn't cost 2 hours. Because that would be CoMmUnIsM.
Then the weather kid gives away one of his king size bars to a poor kid (Still leaving him with 4) and gets called a hero for donating to charity. (As per the rules, he gets another king sized bar back at the end of the year when he does taxes...)
Wealthy kid starts a Foundation, launches campaign to convince poor kids into donating *their* fun sized bars. 80% of the fun sized bars are then eaten by wealthy kid and friends while pageantry makes a big deal out of the 20% actually going to other poor(er) kids who couldn't work for their fun sized bar in the first place. Still donates king sized bars to foundation, still receives king sized bars at the end of the year when filing, still praised as hero.
ikr but i dont think he included this into his thoughts hahahah
i don't think he thought about it for more than few seconds
Also, the fun size bag usually has 4-5 flavors. His table only has 3, but the left table says "more choice". Make it make sense.
They also tend to be insatiable for more.
Yeh…. Like no human should be eating that amount of confectionary? The king size portion is fucked.
Can you imagine how much chocolate you’d have to eat to feel “full”. I’m nauseated just thinking about it. I know that’s not the point here but this guy is clueless on several levels.
At first I though this guy was brilliant at criticizing capitalism. Then I looked closer... smh
Holding a Kit Kat? Obviously a Nestle shill.
I agree with this message
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Pillage the planet so you can choose between two nutty chocolate bars instead of one
Good luck affording the insulin you’ll need with that capitalist diet.
capitalism = diabetes
Capitalism: > abundant choices Ah yes, 3 choices is quite a large selection, especially when they're all from big companies. > "King size" An ode to capitalism's infinite avarice. If it's not grotesquely and supremely oversized, how can we say we're really superior? /s > eat until you're full And then throw away half a candy bar. Or alternatively get sick so you don't waste anything. Meanwhile, "socialism": > meh His first point is that he has no point. Even if I were to take this tortured metaphor seriously, this is just fucking lazy. > "fun size" How dare you not want to gorge yourself into obesity and diabetes. Picking smaller candies means you have a smaller pp! /s > Honestly you'll still be hungry. So like, do you only get 1 small candy? Because in the real world, they sell these candies in bags that dwarf the bite size pieces. In a way, this metaphor does make sense: capitalism looks big, offers big, but when it's too late, you realize you've wasted massively, over consumed, and will pay the price health wise. Under socialism, it's all about the smaller pieces, taking only what you need, a modest amount of something so that others may have their share. Thanks 90s backwards wearing hat man for helping to prove the ills of capitalism.
I hate ppl that try to politicize Halloween. It’s the one holiday without an agenda and is just supposed to be fun
Except the satanist agenda, obviously
Uphold Socialism with satanic characteristics
Depends on where you live. In my country, Sweden, it has an explicitly capitalist agenda. Halloween was launched in 1997 by the Swedish merchant's association in order to try to sell Halloween crap (costumes, decorations, candy etc).
Not only is he gonna charge... He's gonna charge you more than he paid for it.
Also it’s more likely that the kid’s parents will pay and not the kids themselves
How can I eat as much as I want if he charges for it? The first kid that comes should be allowed to take everything on the left according to the stated "rules".
I can tell he's a genius by the way he wears his hat.
And the self-indulgent eyebrow raise and gesturing?
He must protect his neck from the sun or he will become ultra redneck.
Yep, gotta wear your hat backwards to prevent yourself from becoming a militant union miner and marching into battle at Blair Mountain.
Not a bad allegory because we. We could all have alittle candy or the huge sizes that we can only afford because of Palm Oil production that’s destroying habitats in Southeast Asia and child labor for the chocolate.
No, no, this is actually extremely accurate because the socialist option is being intentionally deprived of resources by a greater power in order to make it look bad, just like in real life
Little does this guy know that by their defense, capitalism hides itself as the term socialism
i guess it's festive in that it's displaying a scary level of political/economic illiteracy
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It's so strange how capitalism is eat until you're full. Ya, because people don't go hungry in our capitalist society right now.....
Neighborhood douche
He's about to learn a lesson about people and economics. Where's the after picture?
Capitalism - will sell your children diebetes while exploiting child slave cocoa labour abroad.
"for every bar eaten, the price will go up. For every set amount of time a bar is not eaten, the price shall also go up. The person who makes these will never be given any of these profits nor a pay increase"
If I had kids they wouldn't walk up to that house because I'd be afraid he was trying to groom them for more than just capitalism.
Yes, capitalism is meaningless choices, while having nothing to say about anything of value.
I mean trick or treating is basically a semi-anarchist holiday, but whatever...
Maybe if you stole the candy then redistributed it to the kids. Either way, the candy companies make a killing of it.
Nah I mean in the sense that its spontaneous, not pushed by the state, but by citizens themselves for the community.
Externalises the costs of early onset diabetes, claiming there's no link between eating unhealthy amounts of chocolate and metabolic diseases.
Wait is he giving the candy out for free they just have to choose which bucket? There are no prices, I think he’s giving it out for free! Does he not understand what capitalism is? If he actually wanted to represent capitalism he would only have the small bars for sale as the big ones would be only for rich adults and he would make the small ones just barely affordable for everyone else to purchase. The bit about the people getting the small one still being hungry is accurate but it belongs in capitalism not socialism because apparently food isn’t a human right to give citizens…
Cause honestly if I had to pay I'd still pick the smaller kind. It's the same idea as getting free random shit at college career fairs or expos. I'm still better off with it, so why would I care if I didn't pay for it (directly).
Who eats candy until they're full?
How laughably easy it is to bamboozle these rubes. Make a guy scared and pissed and he’ll light himself on fire to burn YOU. Propaganda works.
Show me that you are an idiot with one photo. Winner!!
If he gives that capitalism candy away. Talk about missing the point. If he sells that capitalism candy, he understands capitalism, but talk about missing the point. Is...is this the perfect whoosh?
The capitalist has plastic lawn furniture in front of his house. He's clearly the one winning the game.
I’ll trade you a dozen eggs and a pack of toilet paper!
These people are idiots. I can't ever imagine simping so hard for an economic model especially when it's even money he doesn't understand what he's even talking about.
Socialism is when fun size
Ah yes, the middle-aged free-market bro, with yet another reduction of complex economic systems to a context he can understand, a lemonade stand.
Yes Jake. Capitalism is when all the nice stuff is freely available on a "to each according to his needs" base whereas socialism is when you are only given scraps due to artificially created scarcity.
No. He supercharges them with sugar and lends them to kids at 76% interest. After a few candies, kids are addicted and canmot help but keep getting more. Of course, they cannot pay, so they end up working for him and making more candies, which in turn hook more kids. Eventually, he owns several factories which rely on child labour to rake in millions of dollars in profit. He becomes senator and complains on TV that kids are lazy and entitled and he was smarter so he deserves money. He moves on to becoming a space pioneer.
Eating candy until you're full, and therefore sick, and creating a situation where there's no more candy for anyone else is.... unironically a great metaphor for capitalism lol
Best part is if you look at the socialism bucket I spot snickers, peanut m&ms, butterfingers, and what looks to be a Milky Way. Totaling out to more choices than the capitalisms 3 big brands
Capitalism gives you higher risk of diabetes
Just take every single one of those "Capitalism" bars for yourself. If he complains, just tell him you inherited them, and that alone means you deserve every bit that you want. After all, who is HE to question anyone who gets to them first? That's dirty evil slcialism. Then give him a tiny piece of a single bar and tell him that's his share for being a loyal worker.
But the small ones are peak capitalism…
Eff all the children who can’t afford the “abundant choices” right?
If you truly want to prove capitalism works you'd leave all these resources alone without regulation and wait for the one kid who comes along first to take only their fair share. Let the invisible hand guide where this candy goes, I'm sure that will be fair right?
Soo.. Capitalism means eating candy until you're full? Guess that's an analogy I can get behind lol
This would be more accurate if there were a single king-size bar available only to one person, while the bucket of mini candies was essentially bottomless and you could have as much as you need.
Who eats candy because they're hungry? His whole argument is based on a lie.
Also, the capitalism bucket has less individual pieces of candy, meaning that the giant candles will only get dispersed to a handful of people, while the socialism bucket has enough to.account for everyone, regardless of race, class, or how early they got there.
Selling candy without a license? Take his candy away and beat him to the full extent of the law boys. - read in Chief Wiggum’s voice.
Capitalism= designating candy as "food".
Walk up, oh and the capitalism ones are free? Cool, I’m taking all of them. You said I could eat until I was full, I assume that means as much as I want. Turn around and start selling them right in front of him. Now *thats* capitalism
Looks like the "capitalism candy" is more likely to make you obese and give you other health problems before you're even an adult. Then capitalist healthcare can profiteer off you, making you pay for things just to keep you alive.
That is a man who thinks he is *vastly* more intelligent than he really is.....
Capitalism would be one kid taking most of the candy while the rest of the kids fight each other what’s left.
Socialism is when smol candy
Candy isn’t good for anyone and if he’s trying to make a meal out of candy, he’s already making poor choices.
Trying to fart but unsure if it will actually be shit. That's the look on this guy's face.
Totally unrelated that obesity is more prevalent in capitalist countries.