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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > C-SPAM > Is Economic Collapse Imminent?
 
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Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

 reminder that the arrival of the great depression was a comically unpredictable affair when all of the factors responsible (massive wealth inequality, unprecedented corporate welfare, desertifying farmland, lack of social programs) went on for long enough to be dismissed by everyone except people with one functioning empathy brain cell, right up until the economy flat loving froze all of a sudden because of one aforementioned factors hitting their critical point and the value of the USD went down, down, down

Anime Schoolgirl has issued a correction as of 20:49 on Jan 23, 2017

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Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

gobbagool posted:

Maybe that should be the new leftist mantra "Global Capitalism, slowly imploding since 5000 BC"

any day now, the glorious workers revolution will come, set your watch to it
several millennia of command economies doesn't really count though

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Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

gobbagool posted:

because you think that ancient economies were closer in nature to...the soviet union than free economies? please explain, i need a laugh to counter the fact that the pats are in the goddamned super bowl again
yes, kings ordering assets to be surrendered to them is free market, now here's your urine drink

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Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

Agnosticnixie posted:

The mongol empire was really just an early attempt at globalism to open the eurasian markets for the free flow of capital.
the art of the deal is showing skull carvings with pigs blood all over them to get fledgling nations to poo poo their pants and then have a good laugh over it as they hand their assets to you

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Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

 fief/serfdom is the free market economic model our society should strive for

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Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

 "you're (not) a well adjusted adult", gobbagool says as he melts down in real time dropping his thin veneer of irony because his favored brand of ayn rand capitalism is as fragile as any other economic system

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Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

gobbagool posted:

Nah, i just like to laugh at internet marxists. In two threads at once at the moment, what did you people get an alert to go out and poo poo up a bunch of places at once today?
i am an anarcho-royalist, thank you

please respect all pronouns

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Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

gobbagool posted:

Also, sorry I missed this, you make a great point, we never recovered from the great depression. I'm still waiting for the Dow to get back to 375 again like it was in september of 1929.
the free market saved america from the great depression, surely, and not a number of strongarm measures to get companies to employ people, and a world war

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Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

gobbagool posted:

why are you and your twinkly friend so anti-free market?
why do you hate America?

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Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

gobbagool posted:

i'd ask if you stopped beating your wife but that just brings up a series of sad realizations
are you going to the family counseling appointments at least

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Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

Modest Mao posted:

the 8 hour work day and 5 day week were not earned by labor revolt but because taylorist management systems found that productivity was higher with more shifts of well rested workers who weren't burnt out on working
capitalism...is anti-free market? :eyepop:

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Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

 gobbagool confirmed sovcit by means of extreme paranoia

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Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

OWLS! posted:

It is in china
due to how their odd state-capitalist economic system works, it's going to work strangely enough there that most of the brunt will actually be absorbed by the corporations instead of the people

china laughing at the united states from the top down

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Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

OWLS! posted:

If you think that won't cause the party to lose the mandate of heaven, loving lol.
they've weathered mao and two straight recessions trying to adopt free-market capitalism before settling for state-owned capitalism, they'll weather corporations making GBS threads their pants

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Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

Prettz posted:

Anyone giddy about the prospects of China becoming the predominate economic power shortly, please keep in mind that they're even more primed for a massive collapse than we are.
the result of an economic collapse is ultimately determined whether the brunt is felt by the populace, or the corporations/state corporations

over here "the population" is all but guaranteed, and that's way harder to recover from

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Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

 rest in piss unrestrained capitalism

he never scored

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