Lack of successful alternatives? It's easy to find flaws with capitalism but every other system has its share of problems too.
this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2024
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I think it's like the old trope of asking a fish how the water is and they reply "what's water?"
Brainwashed since birth. GI Joe had the American Express slogan in an episode ("never leave home without it."). Alvin and the Chipmunks had a story about the Berlin Wall propagandizing communism. All the bad guys in Cobra have accents.
This shit is vile and it was on my morning cartoons.
Often because they're profiting from it themselves.
Living in denial is easy to continue doing and widely encouraged, while being very hard to overcome.
ITT: A lot of people answering for people who have diametrically opposed views to them.