also notice how the media just memory holed Luigi once they realized the public was on his side
Exactly, capitalism ends up being just a handful of monopolies owned by the oligarchs as opposed to state owned companies owned by the public.
Unfortunately not, no idea what the rationale there is.
Indeed, they're perfectly happy indoors too. You can't drag my cats outside if you tried.
oh haha maybe, it looked kinda familiar but didn't show up in search
Right, Trump is more of a Gorbachev figure who is a bumbling fool that breaks the system. Musk will be like Yeltsin and his cronies who robbed the country blind, and then the horrors will begin. Which way the country goes after that is the big question. Wrote about this in more detail here https://lemmy.ml/post/25657440
calling these people leaders is a bit of a stretch if you ask me
Exactly what this feels like.
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The part a lot of people don't seem to understand is that capitalism is a dynamic system that evolves over time. My favorite illustration of this is the game of monopoly, everyone one starts with the exact same opportunity, and at the end all the capital will be in the hands of a single player through the mechanics of the game. That's precisely what we see happening with capitalism in real life. Competition, which is the engine of the system, ensures that some companies win and grow, while others lose. As companies become bigger, they gain brand recognition, leverage economies of scale, and so on, making it unprofitable to try and compete with them.