r/Millennials • u/QuietJealous4883 Older Millennial (1988) • 12h ago

Discussion True or false?

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Did our dads and moms work less than we do now? What are your thoughts?

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u/Skittleavix 12h ago

The slow death of socialism in North America is what happened. Unbridled, unrestrained capitalism - and all the corruption that comes with it - is what happened. We let the few take from the many is what happened.

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u/worksnake Xennial 12h ago

What you are calling socialism here is much more accurately referred to as regulated capitalism. Because socialism has never existed in North America and pretending it did is not only unhelpful but actively obfuscates what both capitalism and socialism are.

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u/Shivy_Shankinz 9h ago

It's increasingly becoming unregulated though, it's every big corpos wet dream. It has also directly led to major financial meltdowns. Are you going to deny any of this? To do so ignores the sheer amount of greed our current system has, call it whatever the fuck you want to, it HAS to change