youve heard me bash marxism, youve heard me defend capitalism; both needed it (at the time).

i don't really hate capitalism, or parts of it (though i'd rather try my system of either reformed socialism/communism or reformed capitalism)

however, i sure hate some things about the way the world ends up doing its particular form of capitalism, none of which are the fault of capitalism itself, nor evils directly springing from it, but rather are simply bad, stupid, habits that we've either gotten into or allowed, and i say again these don't really have to do with capitalism. but- you'll agree with me half-way that these go somewhere under the category of our particular world capitalisms. i'll bet if i didn't make this intro blurb, you'd not blink one eye looking at this as "capitalism". we can debate separately why im saying its not; we can agree on these, whatever they are i think, and want them changed.

so just pretend i said "heres what i said about capitalism", which i didnt say. title says shmapitalism

things i hate about communism:

/whoops capitalism:

-the waste -the lies -the low quality

i could go on but would like to separate these somehow, as more like worldly components of the problem

-enormous income spreads -interference with government -gangsterism enabling -only way of getting food -jobs not provided

(some of these are like: currency problems i guess? i dont think its fair to equate capitalism and currency necessarily either but this is the same way of thinking that im pointing out again, anyway we can debate that separately: are these capitalism-specific problems, currency-specific problems, or arbitrary problems? im arguing that actually all of these are arbitrary problems- capitalism & currency need not feature these. we can discuss but now the most important: examples of each thing i said i didnt like

-the waste like, plastic sandwich bag mass over-production, because its a tiny bit more convenient than whatever else, and people were trained that this is the only thing for the job, meanwhile a mountain of these pile up somewhere, and you couldve used a reusable bag, but then no one wouldve made a bunch of money on it (and a bunch of people wouldntve lost money buying it) but the purpose of capitalism need not be arbitrary money-making.

{how would i define capitalism then? maybe i should do that now: the system that uses currency

the sociopolitical infrastructure of currency that uses currency as a valuable exchange medium to act as a general inter-exchange for all goods and services (which humans do much of- their production of goods and performance of services essentially differentiates them from the rest of the animals and the humans do these tasks with great relish; it represents a majority of their time and output), greatly simplifying bartering and deal-making, and establishing a sort of over-system for bartering and deal-making, which is a stable enough system that it can behave as its own sort of infrastructure and as institutions.

ok, examples more-

of stuff i dont like-

the lies- (again, these are just "in OUR capitalism" (the world's), not IN CAPITALISM but in our particular capitalism.... i cant use italics or bold in here so im trying to use caps as italics

the lies- (1. the waste 2. the lies):

try new product x! its the greatest product ever and itll solve all your problems! even our real doctors say that its good for you. also it was officially awarded the "greatest award ever" in the year 1896, and our company has been family-owned ever since. our proprietary blend of herbs and sacred geometry will make you lose weight, feel better, and grow hair in all the right places you want hair, and lose hair where you don't want it. it contains an exotic blend of special, hard-to-find, miracle cures, all wrapped up into this one bundle. but wait! we can only sell it to you right now if you buy it right now. dont worry though, we'll discount it. it used to be a billion dollars? now its 99.99, but only if you call right now. also- you know multivitamins? noooooo no those are very bad for you; you have to switch to our product or you'll get cancer. in fact, newborn babies must be fed our product, or you'll go to hell. 9/10 doctors agree with that statement, and so do two more for every nine who we interviewed, at official hospitals actually. each ounce of our product improves your IQ by ten points, and gives you sexual energy. hear what others are saying about it: "im the president of the united states, and i approve this product" we're so sure of our results, that we'll even pre-bill you for four more cases of it, to go with your first, for a total of 599.67$ but only if you act right now. pick up that phone when we coldcall you!

or uh

"best hamburger ever" ok that ones not so bad

but like, imagine before they made you put food ingredients on products

the real food ingredients i mean

and regulated it

"this pre-cooked, discount sausage meat is made of 101% RRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLL sausage meat!!!!!!!! (contains no wood shavings or rotten sausge meat or other animal parts or other things/stuff at all or grey-colored paint)

ok that covers "lies"

-the low quality so as the ceo of crunchies brand cereal, ive discovered that the secret to growth is the removal of product. this year's batch of crunchy cereal will feature 10% less actual grains, 5% worser grains, 12% more sawdust, and 33% more advertising, and if we follow the same formula year after year, i think theres a chance our stock could go up. make sure your kids dont eat it, and if anyone asks stand by the product.

-enormous income spreads (12 years later) so im the ceo of crunchies cereal, and i make 200 trillion times the income of the entire lower class! hahaha they might want crunchies brand but they cant afford it, and i wouldnt eat it if you paid me 300 trillion!

-interference with government im the ceo of crunchies, and ive decided to spend 500 trillion forcing the next election by overwhelming advertising. im creating, and forcing, a candidate of my design. i found someone willing- the first person i approached- the price was right- im having them: install crunchies brand as the sole lunchfood of all u.s. public schools, eliminate my competition by doj'ing all non-crunchies brands for antitrust, and im also having them install the religion of my choice- "underwearism" dont ask

-gangsterism enabling im joe, and i sell death! im a hit man! just pay me in currency; i can go and launder the money

-only way of getting food im bob, and even though im an animal on planet earth, i cannot walk around and get food. the entire earth is owned by my species, meaning im not allowed on any of it, unless i fight them with money for some of it. to "have my own space of land" (i can also only have the land i pay for, then have to stay there) i have to "make a bunch of money" (exchange medium, by making or selling goods or doing work), then exchange this for a plot. if i dont do this, i cant have land- in a sense theres not a single spot on earth i can step on. whats worse is its the same for eating, to go with that. if i cant step on others land i cant go roaming for trees with apples on them or whatever. how do i get apples? same formula. gotta make a bunch of money first- its the only way to get apples- i cannot go and pick apples- apples are not free; theyre money- only money equals apples

this is a strange arrangement. most animals can walk around and eat food. its something that goes with being an animal, and i consider us an animal. it didnt use to be like this. in fact, it was the natural way for longer than it was this way.

-jobs not provided our societies dont manufacture a certain number of jobs, in accordance with exactly how many people there are, and keep them on hand such that any day i can say "job!" and be whisked away to a job by my government, such that there wouldnt be a day or moment id go without apples.