There being a purpose to capitalism implies that there is some grand plan behind this system. There isn’t.

I think you are so terrified by the idea that the world and it’s economic system are inherently chaotic that you are coming up with entirely irrational attempts at smart-sounding explanations like this one.

This doesn’t mean that there aren’t elites exploiting their favorable position in the current system, including in times of crisis that they caused themselves.

Trump had one as well. Similar knuckle-dragging target audience between the two, I’d wager.

Ich glaube nicht, dass du mit dieser Gesprächstaktik bei mir oder irgendwem anderes auf einen grünen Zweig kommen wirst. Viel Spaß damit, den Sinn hinter dem ersten Satz mit einem Übersetzungsprogramm zu verstehen.

My great uncle (who was 12 at the end of WW2) had to hide from the Soviets for years, caught pneumonia and almost died before he managed to escape over the Iron Curtain. He suffered from serious health complications for the rest of his life. His mother was murdered on the spot, his teenage sister abducted into the Gulag system. She died somewhere in the Ural mountains, never to be heard of or seen again.

You on the other hand feel smug and smart about yourself by using entry level college vocabulary on a topic you know less than nothing about. There are few people on this planet I detest more than those who are, for whatever reason, carrying water for authoritarians and authoritarian systems.

Swing and miss. I’m not even American. I am from a country that suffered under real-world Communism for decades though.

Exception: Old pixel art that was meant to be smoothed out by blurry CRT monitors and TVs. Yes, I know those are not algorithms, but still.

This could end up working better than foldable devices. No creases to worry about.

If you think the type of person who signs up for a Facebook product will flock over to the “real” fediverse the moment they are seeing ads (which they are most likely seeing everywhere else on the Internet, since this kind of low-information user is usually not even aware of the possibility of blocking ads), then I got a bridge to sell to you.

In the real world, communism also suffered from the mandated growth problem, as well as a long list of other issues that some people still like to pretend solely exist under capitalism and some serious problems that are exclusive to this system. Yes, it is actually bad, with and without Cold War propaganda making it sound both worse and better than it actually was. It failed everywhere for a reason.

This doesn’t mean that there aren’t real issues with capitalism as well. So far, the best system we’ve come up with as a species is heavily regulated capitalism with strong social safety nets. Not perfect, but nothing is on this rock.