why would you need to expand

you ever heard of international trade?

you just

sell product

Then what’s the thing that came before mercantilism

produce product

Communism would work if there were unlimited resources and robots to perform all of the manual labor

right

@Machinimal capitalisms main function is to penetrate and accumulate

a post-scarcity society

Stop, don't bring up basic economics

He is a commie

you need ever expanding markets

no you don't

therefore you must go abroad

Wrong

you just need to keep selling

new people are born

new consumers

if energy and wealth were unlimited and we could literally fabricate anything we want, then we wouldn't even need capitalism anymore

older people die

you price things based on how much people will buy

In fact the states was doing better when it didn’t involve it’s self anywhere

food is cheap

furniture expensive

@Machinimal what kind of lala land are u in? youre saying like the people who run the world just stayed in there own backyards

how did imperialism end up working for the British Empire?

@excursion12 (redha, richtginger) it made people massively rich

Some did

of course

and nearly all of their colonies collapsed

you're really just describing a type of person and not capitalism

thats the point

the point isnt to make most people rich

some people never have enough and constantly expand

just the right seect fee

few

So, in communism everyone starves

See?

If it’s a system of the past we must not return to it

the point of capitalism is the acquisition of goods through means of labor and trade