Does capitalism have soul?
Does capitalism have soul?
Anthony Thompson
Connor Diaz
And they say Americans have no culture
Hunter Hill
yes I love capitalism buying things makes me feel good
Charles Carter
Burgerpunk
Benjamin Kelly
Yeah. Humans have been using capitalism in some form or another for thousands of years. It isn't always like the decadent American consoomerism and at its heart is a solid system
Connor Allen
>mfw
Lucas Long
soul is a stupid meme forced by stupid peasants, i doubt ruling class elite contemplate about soul or worry about anything than losing power
Easton Cox
>NO. You can't have Gas Stations and Fast Food conveniently clustered right off of the interstate.
Nolan Cooper
No. Capitalism is driven by the constant expansion into every human domaine until every interaction has been commodified and reduced to a monetary exchange.
Colton White
I gotta thank the Yanks for Macci, when I was a poor st*dent some time ago me and my brother used to eat for free more often than not with the emulated mcdonalds app and their daily rewards. how surreal it feels looking back to playing games for free meals, like some laboratory rat solving tricks for a reward
Oliver Moore
>this pic
>every day
>multiple boards
it's a highway truck stop
Angel Davis
Yeah I know it's an everyday sight to you amerifats but to us it's jarring as fuck.
Elijah Morales
no I don't go to truck stops every day
Tyler Hall
>tfw its getting dark and starting to rain so your parents finally decided to call it a night after a long day of driving back from some road trip that took you halfway across the country
>you all eat dinner together at waffle house, the lights from all the signs now reflecting off every wet surface
>they get a room at a little motel nearby, the kind with only 1 story where you park in front of your room
>you all watch TV for maybe half a hour before passing out to the sound of traffic and the window AC unit
Jonathan Mitchell
> The franchise and the virus work on the same principle: what thrives in one place will thrive in another. You just have to find a sufficiently virulent business plan, condense it into a three-ring binder -- its DNA -- Xerox(tm) it, and embed it in the fertile lining of a well-traveled highway, preferably one with a left-turn lane. Then the growth will expand until it runs up against its property lines.
>In olden times, you'd wander down to Mom's Cafe for a bite to eat and a cup of joe, and you would feel right at home. It worked just fine if you never left your hometown. But if you went to the next town over, everyone would look up and stare at you when you came in the door, and the Blue Plate Special would be something you didn't recognize. If you did enough traveling, you'd never feel at home anywhere.
>But when a businessman from New Jersey goes to Dubuque, he knows he can walk into a McDonald's and no one will stare at him. He can order without having to look at the menu, and the food will always taste the same. McDonald's is Home, condensed into a three-ring binder and xeroxed. "No surprises" is the motto of the franchise ghetto, its Good Housekeeping seal, subliminally blazoned on every sign and logo that make up the curves and grids of light that outline the Basin.
James Carter
>The people of America, who live in the world's most surprising and terrible country, take comfort in that motto. Follow the logo outward, to where the growth is enfolded into the valleys and the canyons, and you find the land of the refugees. They have fled from the true America, the America of atomic bombs, scalpings, hip-hop, chaos theory, cement overshoes, snake handlers, spree killers, space walks, buffalo jumps, drive-bys, cruise missiles, Sherman's March, gridlock, motorcycle gangs, and bun-gee jumping. They have parallel-parked their bimbo boxes in identical computer-designed Burbclave street patterns and secreted themselves in symmetrical sheetrock shitholes with vinyl floors and ill-fitting woodwork and no sidewalks, vast house farms out in the loglo wilderness, a culture medium for a medium culture.
David Brooks
That is more Or less how everything is built here.
Gavin Torres
peak Nietzsche
Nolan Hall
all those logos just inspire loneliness in me
Jackson Price
Wrong, capitalism has only existed for a few hundred years
This
Adam King
>Humans have been using capitalism in some form or another for thousands of years
Elijah Stewart
you dont have to live by a highway truckstop. you dont have to live in the mountains alone. you dont have to live like in a huge city. you dont have to live by the ocean. you dont have to live by a canal. you dont have to live in a forest. you dont have to live by a lake. you dont have to live in a desert. you dont have to live in a swamp. you dont have to live by the bay. you dont have to live by the border.
the point is that in the usa you can live wherever you want. whatever climate, topography, population density, terrain, whatever flora or fauna you want etc....
can your country say the same?
Zachary Smith
Private ownership for profit is a recent thing? Fucking eurotards.
Ethan Martin
Nope
Noah Garcia
Landon Foster
Top notch shitpost
Easton Cooper
all political orders are socially Darwinian because only those who can hold power rule
Juan Ward
That’s not all capitalism is. Capitalism is the use of a more-or-less free market to concentrate ownership into the hands of a few to order society according to a hierarchy based on merit. On paper it’s a good theory, but most people aren’t rich based on merit. They were born rich or got lucky.
Hunter Brooks
Capitalism is ’freer’ and more efficient than its predecessors in terms of production and the expanded freedom to attain private property
Oliver Allen
Snow Crash is the quintessential burger-punk story, it's really good and I wish more people would read it.
Hunter Collins
Post burgerpunk
James Hill
Uh... Yes? Everything under monarchism belonged by birthright to whoever was the lord. INCLUDING the people working on the land, the serfs. This is how it has been for thousands of years. Capitalism is a new thing, don't pretend it is some sort of ancient innate human nature.
Hudson Watson
Feudalism not monarchism
Kevin Morgan
No. It eats them.
Lucas Allen
good save
Josiah Moore