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OK, I'll bite: What systems reward kindness?
- Swinger clubs.
  
  How else do you play golf?
  
  Plot twist outside of America it's not much
- It's not just about systems, It's about conditions. Certain conditions make certain strategies more profitable - see game theory. I think low population density and hard life conditions cam lead to kindness being among the winning strategies.
  
  Yeah well we dont have any of those conditions and it would make sense to make oue life conditions harder or to lower the population density so drastically so this meme doesnt make any sense
- criminal diversion programs
- Some veil of ignorance everyone is part of the ruling class for a week type stuff? Or maybe just anarcho syndicalism.
- Me! Bow to me and you will be rewarded for kindness!
- The one that is the best at mitigating greed.
  
  Any sufficiently large system rewarding kindness will be taken advantage of by selfish people.
  
  I'm a leftist but I'm not much of a fan of the Soviet Union. I'm Finnish and middle-aged so I know a bunch of people who had to escape from there and I've heard first-hand stories about the shit that went on, and I've visited Soviet Estonia who got the short end of the stick with Russian imperialism compared to us. At least we stayed independent although had to grant a lot of power over eg. our foreign policy to the Russians – ie. Soviets, but it's not like it wasn't essentially a Russian project since they pretty quickly forgot about korenization and went for Russification instead – to keep them from invading (again…)
  
  Jokes aside communism is just as bad because it does nothing to prevent power from congregating at the top. The only difference is the type of corruption.
  Talk to anyone who grew up in the eastern block about bread lines. Communism is a failure in comparison to capitalism.

I'm glad that there is goodness in the world as well!
It might be a bit hidden away, but I encourage y'all to look closer and feel its might! ❤
And go ahead and create some more yourself!
- And go ahead and create some more yourself!
  Ooh, radical. I might just have to try that
  ❤️

Let the greedy fend off for themselves in the desert and see how far it gets them.
- They've always been handed everything, so they lack any useful survival skills, and they would definitely perish in the desert.
  So I say it's a great idea.
  
  That's not capitalism, lol. Modern life has left the majority of people without any real survival skills.

Dalepilled

What does this have to do with the intimidator?
- There is a reason they call him the Intimidator of the Burgouis.

Meanwhile, the problem with communism is that it relies on everyone having aligned incentives on a nation-state level, which is a pleasant fiction and can only be achieved through authoritarian coercion.

Raise hell (against capitalism), praise Dale

So that the greed can donate to kindness¯(ツ)/¯ What a pity

How is this a meme
Also classic lammy.ml hating everything about the west
- How is this anti western? Pretty much every country in the world is capitalist by now.
  
  Well to be fair to hating the west for committing genocides to accomplish this, it's not like a lot of them had a choice.
  
  All the good ones, anyway. Lol.
  Too mean?
- It's a meme because some people don't understand that monetary system isn't political.
- I think the meme are OP's political ideas

Capitalists would argue that between capitalism and socialism, capitalism is the one that better accounts for greed, as it generally has laws to con strain it but otherwise uses it to generate all the production that's the hallmark of modern society, division of labor, economy of scale, technological advancement, etc. Socialism doesn't really deal with greed, it just sort of wishes it away. That's why so many societies that have started down the socialist path have become at best poor and at worst authoritarian murder factories like the Soviet Union, Maoist China, Chavist Venezuela, the Khmer Rouge's Cambodia, etc.
- Communism quite literally exists to mitigate greed, and there is nothing stopping Capitalist countries from becoming authoritarian Murder Factories like Modern Russia, The United States, Britain, France, Belgium, and countless other examples of colonial powers that have exploited and murdered native populations. Billionaires get arrested and taxed all the time in modern China. While they almost never suffer the same fate in Capitalist countries.
  
  No European country or the US is anything like Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. Orders of magnitude different.
  Billionaires get arrested and taxed all the time in modern China.
  They don't get arrested for the reasons you or I would arrest them, they get arrested for crossing the CCP. Billionaires do face punishment in the capitalist West.
- Literally no economic system or political science yet has managed to prevent the internalised drive for familicide or authoritarian violence funnily enough, one can only hope that rationality prevails over bad thoughts, but not on the basis of civilization or self preservation, but through the collective conscience of humanity coming to understand how best to maximize the available entropy and energy within society to produce the most jobs, the most utility, the most potential sex, the most systems of funding and all other human desires.
  Consider thot the US is a very rich democracy yet has many school shootings, Saudi Arabia has had to deal with corrupt funding of terrorists, China uses AI to bait people into crime and arrests people on false charges and then plays catch and release while Israel funds Hamas, imports overseas Jews and then exports violent "settlers" into the Palestinian borders.
  Consider that even millionaire dictators who go on holiday will occasionally commit mass genocide. All of these bad things... Are not going to disappear because of capitalism, but we can at least say that they would become more foreseeable and preventable in a world where we have movies or stories that discuss our present these monstrosities to light
  
  Given the choice between greed with poverty vs greed with wealth, I choose greed with wealth aka capitalism. Like I said, capitalism at least does some good with the greed. Socialism, etc. pretends it can make greed go away, but it obviously can't.
  Sidenote, a vanishingly small portion of people in the US are killed or injured in school shootings. They're obviously bad, but when comparing societies on the societal scale, they make basically no impact.

- The use of 'enslaving' here is particularly ironic here...
  
  "Capitalism ended enslaving people" - A Black American born 71 years after the invention of Capitalism in 1865.
- Now they can loot their employees wages.
- It didn't get rid of any of that. It just redefined and recategorized what those entailed.
- When was the last chattel slave in the US released again? 1942.
  When did slavery end on a global scale again? Never.
  Damn. Sounds like we traded the evils of merchantilism for the same evils under capitalism, but with a fresh coat of paint.
- Now post a picture of a pedophile and a quote about how pedophiles actually love children more
  
  Remind me why we are we talking about paedophilic shit here?

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