• Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    Recessions, financial crashes and the like have been happening ever since Capitalism has been formed, as late as 1637 and since the industrial revolution to the expansion of the system worldwide, they have consistently happened on average once a decade.

    Even just taking the post-war US

    1948-1949

    1953-1954

    1957-1958

    1960-1961

    1969-1970

    1973-1975

    1980; 1981-1982

    1990-1991

    2001

    2007-2009

    2020

    Both in times of Keynesian spending-driven capitalism and monetarist wage-braking capitalism. Not to mention how recessions were avoided in times of growth, such as the pre-Lehman Brothers speculatory bubble in real estate or the Biden administration throwing Europe to the wolves currently.

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    10 months ago

    I’m not sure how they’re going to eliminate the boom bust cycle when it’s an inherent part of a capitalist economy. Turns out business owners don’t like giving up their ability to squeeze the life from their employees and pay them the smallest amount possible when the only goal is profit and growth.

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    200 years of evidence and they still say the same shit.

    Even if you could cure “demand-side recessions” this shit would still occur because capitalism has absolutely no central authority with which to mount a response whenever an unexpected crisis hits. Disasters happen. Big events that shake up the system happen. You can’t cure these and you can’t resolve capitalism’s inability to respond adequately to them.

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    eventually

    After centuries of massacring communists, socialists, trade unionists, child workers, foreign workers, anarchists, and even liberals who just want a dollar raise, they still couldn’t figure out how stop recurring crises?

  • ButtBidet [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    I always imagine/hope that after enough wrong predictions, the right will somehow realise that they’re wrong and grow up. And I’m always disappointed.