Capitalism is when there is a capitalist class that owns the means of production in order to extract surplus value, and a working class that uses the means of production in order to create value.

The truest capitalism would be a society where one individual owned everything and everyone else had to work under that individual.

Capitalism does not care - and never has cared - about people’s ability to buy stuff. That’s why market crisises happen. It’s the result of capitalists taking more than the workers can afford to lose.

There have been times when the capitalist class has cooperated with the demands and needs of the working class. That’s called a mixed economy, and as the name suggests, it’s a compromise between capitalism and socialism and therefore far from “true” capitalism.

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The “minimum support threshold” for Germany’s MMP voting system is 1% of the voters. Without even taking things like gerrymandering and strategic voting into account, the threshold for a first-past-the-post system like in the U.S. is often well over 40% of the voters. An absurd difference.

Sure, MMP is not perfect. No system is. But it’s extremely much better than FPTP.

That is not a proportional system of representation.

No system that creates a large amount of election “losers” can ever be fully democratic. If you vote for the second most popular party, or the third most popular, et cetera, you should still be given representation.

Nonsense. It gives the same benefits that a simple massage does but a massage doesn’t put you at risk of paralysis or death.

It’s quackery.

You want an online community that allows both the right and the far right? That would be ALL OTHER ONLINE COMMUNITIES!

We came here specifically to get our own forum, where the centre left, regular left and far left are all allowed. This is a forum for the working class, not for the capitalists. And you capitalists can’t handle the fact that us workers for once get to have a forum of our own.

Granted, I don’t know what Haiku is, but surely it can’t be more independent and niche than TempleOS?

According to marxists, a capitalist is someone who extracts the surplus value of other people’s labor.

According to non-marxist socialists, a capitalist is someone who holds decision-making power in a workplace without having been given that mandate by the workers of that workplace.

In either case, owning your own business does not in itself make you a capitalist. Having non-owner employees makes you a capitalist.