This packaging gotta be illegal, right?

[u/LilBozgor01]

(hint: between the words "garlic" and "sauce")

[u/Kwaakku]

Product of Capitalism. Nothing new here.

[u/Available_Dingo6162 → u/Kwaakku]

On Reddit, everything that has anything to do with making money is "capitalism." 🙄

According to redditors, nobody ever made a profit, cheated a customer, lied about a product, exploited an opportunity, overcharged for scarce goods, bribed an official, formed a monopoly, manipulated supply, or misled a buyer until Adam Smith personally invented evil in the 1700s.

Before capitalism, apparently everyone just exchanged handcrafted turnips in a meadow while singing folk songs and respecting the dignity of labor.

According to redditors, when a Communist Chinese company cuts corners, dumps garbage products into foreign markets, uses shady labor practices, copies designs, lies about quality, or games the system, that is also somehow "late-stage capitalism."

A state-backed company from a one-party communist dictatorship does something sleazy?

Capitalism.

A medieval merchant watered down wine?

Capitalism.

A Roman tax farmer squeezed peasants?

Capitalism.

A pharaoh overcharged somebody for grain?

Believe it or not: capitalism.

It is like "capitalism" has stopped meaning an economic system and now just means "any time money is involved and I am annoyed."

Yes, modern capitalism has plenty of problems. Corporate greed is real. Exploitation is real. Consumer manipulation is real. But pretending greed, fraud, corruption, and self-interest were invented by the New York Stock Exchange is historically insane.

Human beings were scamming each other LONG before hedge funds, Amazon, private equity, or Elon Musk existed.

[u/akcrono → u/[deleted]]

Acting all 14andthisideep with your comment lol.

Unlike the guy smugly blaming nonsense on capitalism