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But sometimes we get cheap flat screen TVs, so it's impossible to say whether capitalism is bad or not.

(with thanks to dril: https://twitter.com/dril/status/464802196060917762)

>>miniki+(OP)
If your life depended on getting a flat screen TV, capitalism would ensure that it costs you $25K if you're uninsured, or a $500 deductible if you're insured, whereby your insurer pays another $8K due to either being big enough to negotiate, or else being owned by the same company.

>>miniki+(OP)
That's beyond absurd. So we get cheap, unnecessary items, while many don't have access to healthcare, are homeless, are literally starving, or all three and that somehow makes it impossible to say whether capitalism is good or bad? I'd say that fact alone makes US capitalism bad. Trading millions of lives for cheap TVs and other garbage. I really hope you were joking but knowing this forum, that's probably too much to hope.

>>mnm1+CV
it is a meme and is meant sarcastically, see the linked tweet.