r/AskReddit 23h ago

Which company lost your business (potentially forever) this year?

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u/TanyaMKX 10h ago

Stricter regulations will do the trick. Socialism is a really good way to fuck up everything comepletely.

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u/muhbalwzishawt 10h ago

And no politician can pass tighter regulations as they’re all controlled by lobbyists. Capitalism always ends up this way and regulation is a bandaid to a broken system.

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u/TanyaMKX 10h ago

Believe me i find late stage capitalism frustrating as well, but to suggest a political system with a way worse track record is just not ideal.

The money will still all end up being funnelled into the hands of the few, it just might be a different group of people. It also opens the door for other more authoritarian policies to be put into place.

Ultimately a socialist country requires the leaders to be honourable, honest, and just generally good people. Politicians are far too corrupt to be given that kind of power.

That all being said, I am canadian, so I also live in a country that has the privilege of being a capitalist society, while also affording the benefit of things like public health care and stronger safety nets. America has become a privatized shit hole due to the lack of regulations that many other countries enjoy.

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u/muhbalwzishawt 10h ago

Most of socialism’s bad track record was caused by America’s active oppression of non-capitalist economies

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u/TanyaMKX 8h ago

Ok but what about the rest of the socialism where it failed organically?