I think you might believe in market economy but not capitalism. Market economy is an economic system, capitalism is an ideology.

What do you mean when you say those words?

As a thought experiment, let's say we both have a paper route. We are not in direct competition, but I am unable to expand my route because doing so would be treading on your route. I stop being able to do my route. Anyone could pick up my route, but you are in a position to gain more from my route than someone new to the business. Thereby, you pick up an outsized share of the route. This crowds both new and existing potential route owners.

The example is only about capital accumulation and state involvement. There are other problematic issues such as wage labor as addressed by the comic.

Just about any economic system, if it was run perfectly, would be mostly fine.

The problem is people behave unwisely.

At the end of the day, I think that the issue with this sentiment is that in some sense, control over something and ownership of that thing are virtually the same thing. If you have "appropriately controlled capitalism", then you have someone other than the capitalists ultimately deciding what the implements that drive the economy are used for and who the dividends are given to. If that someone is just some individual or small group controlling it to their own interests, then you just have an authoritarian system (and frankly, its not really different from a capitalist system that has become sufficiently consolidated for the number of rich owners controlling things to be very small anyway, since those guys will also run things to their own interest). If theres some kind of collective/societal-wide control mechanism, and its actually sufficient in its influence to prevent the abuses of capitalism, then it isnt really capitalism at all anymore because those private "owners" just have a legal fiction of ownership. At which point, their position is doubly useless, so there is little benefit to keeping up that illusion.

There should be a wealth cap of sorts

Some sort of NG+

Once you reach a certain amount of wealth, you get a parade and then you give up all your wealth, get a new identity, and start over.

Maybe if you go over a certain wealth amount, you're entered into Open PvP mode.

In software we say there are people problems and tool problems. You generally can't solve one type with the other.

I think this applies here. Almost all economic models have positives, but given a chance individuals will abuse it to skew things in their favor.

I dont really see a good solution out there unfortunately, so I settle on the one that has worked in the past which is regulation.

But capitalism expect constantly growing capital value right? How is that possible?

It is like you join new MMORPG and get fuked by 1kkk lvl players where you barely can get to lvl 10

any solutions?

anything?

anything at all

useless

Hey man maybe don't compare situations we aren't in and face the fact that capitalism has failed once again. Think way back when you played monopoly as a kid, how did every game end? Even a boot smoocher like you should be able to comprehend this simple equation.

Alternatively, learn the meaning of words.

Not to support communism as a plausible solution, but all "communist" countries were what we call "state capitalist". Communism is "worker control of the means of production" not "state control of the means of production". Communism ideologically doesn't have the "centralised" ownership of everything that you are referring to. But all "Actually Existing Socialist" countries like Soviet Russia, Cuba, China, etc... did have that centralisation.

All I'm saying is that when you see people advocating for leftist, progressive, social democratic, or "communist" ideas none of them are talking about state ownership of all industry.

I just don't see any so-called communist countries without literally the exact same problems

This comic refers to wealth inequality and appropriation of wealth by an owner class. This is not what happened in communist countries despite what CIA propaganda would have us believe. The top 1% in the USSR only had about 4% of the total income, compared to 20%ish for modern, capitalist Russia and similar figures for USA and such. Also the top earners were not corrupt bureaucrat politicians, but highly trained professionals like university professors, prominent artists, and other members of the intelligentsia. Similar figures are true for communist Cuba, Maoist China, etc.

Communism can be the most democratic system. For example, Vietnam is right now starting a process of dismantling a lot of bureaucracy and state power and to give power to local communes to have budgetary decisions, administrative power, etc. Luna Oi, a member of the Vietnamese communist party and a youtuber, has a very recent video talking about it.

Big poopy diaper?

24.26mm wide quarter...6065km long line of quarters!

And if I were to compare a weeks groceries and bills for the average American, would you have the same costs as them?

Can you travel around without a car? A lot of Americans can't, while living in so called "food deserts". This is an area of high population but little to no cheap nutritious food anywhere. All you can get is overpriced delivery or hop on down to some gas station for a bag of extremely unhealthy fatty snacks and a drink which is 30% sugar.

Imagine thinking that you can live in a first world country while paying as much as living in the developing world.

Billionaires should by definition not exist if they abided by all laws and regulations that existed, including paying taxes and paying their workers a fair wage. These people got to where they are because they've committed several serious crimes and destroyed an awful lot of lives in the process, and simply do not care that they did.

This isn't a "skill issue". If we're going to put it into video game logic, this world is a video game where cheaters and hackers are rampant, and nobody does anything about them as they destroy the world. It doesn't matter how good you are at the game, it doesn't matter how much effort you put into learning how to play it, that cheater has godmode and aimbot activated. Nothing you ever do will affect them in any meaningful way. The game masters are also cheaters and thus, it's in their best interests to maintain this. The cheaters have the monopoly on the game and the only reason the game is still going is because we all participate in it or we all die.

The cheaters need us to keep playing or they die as well. Just like how the wealthy elites need us to keep working or everything they have becomes redundant. Their way of life gone and buried. They didn't get there by being good or skilled, they got there because they gave the literal and proverbial middle finger to morals and ethics, and the law, and got rewarded immensely for it. Then they changed the system so it would always benefit them via paid lobbying in politics and getting their bribed politicians to destroy every little thing that could possibly protect the peasants, like you and me.

Stop defending the people who would happily raze your entire neighborhood to the ground and toss you and your family into the meat grinder if it meant making slightly more money this year than the year before. They do not give a FUCK about you. Not a singular fuck. You will not be rewarded for your loyalty. You will not be acknowledged for your perseverance. You do not matter to them. Unless you are the brother of a certain plumber, then you matter greatly enough that terrorism charges are applied to you.

That should tell you everything you need to know. Stop this crabs in a bucket mentality.