Do you support sustainability, social responsibility, tech ethics, or trust and safety? Congratulations, you’re an enemy of progress. That’s according to the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen.

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      I ask the reader, if you could live in any country in the world, what country would that be? Seriously think about it for a moment. Take your time. … Now, note if the country you just chose is capitalist or not, it almost certainly is.

      Yes, capitalism has flaws, but we have yet to see a better system.

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        Because capitalist countries keep using their massive wealth to dismantle socialist/communist countries. Just look at the history of US interventions in Latin/South America, which replaced a lot of democratically elected leftists with murderous dictators so we could have cheaper bananas.

        Also it’s a lot harder to create a system that works for everyone instead of an oligarchy run by the wealthy. The reason so many countries slide into capitalism is because it’s a pit that self-interested parties are constantly trying to drag people in

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          Is China dismantled? No, the CCP enshittified their country all by themselves.

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              But they are socialist and successful. You don’t get to real Scotsman every example that doesn’t fit your narrative

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                If American Leftists don’t wish to recreate China, then China is hardly what they stand for; they are not responsible for what people on the other side of the planet have done, and are not obligated to answer for their decisions over the last 60 years.

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                The number of billionaires in China is increasing, the fact that they’re enshittifying is because they’re getting more capitalist not less

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          It was called the Cold War… jeez, you guys love trotting out one side of a conflict.

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