r/dankmemes Dumbassery Dec 05 '22

OC Maymay ♨ You’re joking, right?

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u/Fa1nted_for_real Dec 06 '22

Yeah if you. Really think about it, the elite are the system. If all the rich people said "fck it we're leaving" then the economy would crash near instantaneously and there isn't really much the government can do. The government was supposed to prevent this, they didn't.

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u/Z4rplata Dec 06 '22

Isn’t that the point of communism? To have no elite whatsoever? But communism is like the peak of humanity on paper, something that we will only reach with almost pure morality and social responsibility + the world needs to be completely united

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u/Fa1nted_for_real Dec 06 '22

This is a good description of it. My grandpa said that "the only reason communism will never work is because of greed and human ignorance. With communism, we could solve many problems with communism. But communism doesn't work. Because the only way it can work with greed is that the elite keep it in check, and that's not communism, it's capitalism with extra steps"-my grandpa who had a PhD in economics (and many others, they are just not relevant right now.)

((PhD is a philosophical doctorate, which means that it isn't necessarily a qualification of knowledge, but rather a qualification to analyze and obtain knowledge given))

E:more emphasis on philosophical

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u/LurkingGuy Dec 06 '22

But communism doesn't work.

2 things.

There's never been a society in modern times too achieve communism.

Communist lead socialism has worked for millions of people, raising them out of poverty and improving quality of life.

We need more socialism.