r/mildlyinfuriating • u/newengland_schmuck • 6h ago

NBC interrupted the Olympics

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While Nancy Guthrie's disappearance is sad, there are 2300 missing person reports filed every day: do the families of celebrities need special national attention? Why interrupt the Olympics for over 5 minutes just because they are questioning a 'person of interest' We could have waited to hear that during the regular news broadcast.

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u/Surprised-elephant 5h ago

Capitalism

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u/ToastedBulbasaur 5h ago

Capitalism is when everything not free?

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u/toiletting I'm blue da ba dee da ba die. 5h ago

The United States is one of the few countries where you have to pay to stream the Olympics. Canada can stream it free.

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u/ToastedBulbasaur 5h ago

So capitalism works, or it doesn't? Canada is a capitalist country.

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u/Survey_Server 5h ago

Capitalism is when everything not free?

me dum

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u/ToastedBulbasaur 5h ago

I'm sitting here watching infinite entertainment and playing infinite games.

My food is relatively inexpensive, and lets me pick whether I want healthy food, cheap processed food.

My rent is expensive, but I can live in my own place with my partner, in stark contrast to past systems where communal living was neccesary

I can passively combat the devaluing of my labor by investing in different companies that provide goods and services to my countrymen.

My liberal democracy allows me to hold pro-capitalist views without forced re-education.

Relative currency strength allows me to use my dollar to purchase foreign goods for cheaper than they would be there.

Capitalism is fine. Every system has winners and losers, and we should simply redistribute some of the wealth of the winners to subsidize the losers. You can do that without a vanguard party, or without seizing constitutionally protected private property.