Trading in existing items is not exactly capitalism … that’s just plain old bartering.

Capitalism, especially the modern form, is when you use your existing or inherited wealth to buy or develop companies who generate wealth from the work of other people to create brand new products or services. It’s exploitative because capitalists take the hard work of many people who create brand new products and then claim full or majority ownership over those products without having done anything except claim ownership.

What you are doing is taking old discarded things that either have no more value or lesser value and taking your own effort and time to recreate value and barter it to someone else. The only person you’ve exploited in the transaction is yourself … but you reap all the benefit. And no one can go back and say that the product that you just traded is stolen profit from the previous owner … the previous owner had thrown it away and didn’t value it any more or even considered it trash to be thrown away.

Flipping isn’t capitalism … it’s just good economic sense for the individual.

Unless you turn it all into a multimillion dollar business with employees, real estate and a corporation … it isn’t capitalism.

Buy stuff on ebay and start trading to bigger and better things. If you work at it hard enough, you’ll end up with trading items worth thousands without having spent more than $75.

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/steven-ortiz-porsche-trade-craigslist,news-7544.html

Lol America

They accuse a democrat with these charges any time and the news media, government and the public literally stops as everyone shows their outrage.

Accuse Trump of similar things and the country just chalks it up to the list of shit he’s done that no one cares about.

None of this is a Trump problem … it’s an American problem.

Gives cat a present … cat swats it away

The country’s already broken. After this orange orangutan is gone, the country will keep fracturing until it turns into two, three or more new countries in the coming decades.

Shiny with fake gold trim everywhere, and gold colored flames painted on the side.

And one side is being flooded with water … and the other side is on fire.

… and knowing America’s track record for stupidity … THE WORST PRESIDENT SO FAR!

The dumb part of this story is not that they’re trying to cover it up

The dumb part is that America just accepts it all as a cover up and won’t bother doing anything about it.

If any other president before had done any of this … the country would have erupted … but the US has become so complacent and apathetic to this orange menace that it’s become an authoritarian nation not ruled by force but by the adject stupidity and complacency of the entire country.

Yeah … knowing America’s track record … after he dies, his name will be mocked and removed everywhere … then in a hundred years (or less), there will be a new neo-MAGA movement that will revive his name and everyone will debate about his legacy all over again.

We’re on to your dumb games America … you can’t be trusted any more.

We did a little tour on our own into Germany one spring, about 20 years ago. It was only a few days, we didn’t have much money and we absolutely didn’t know what we were doing. We rented a car and just started wandering. It was just at the point of technology where GPS was still new. We didn’t have any so we just started driving with a shitty map and no clue.

We had done some traveling in other countries before and we had met several famously obnoxious German tourists. We had partly expected to meet equally arrogant Germans in their home country.

Instead we met the most open, kind hearted, brilliant people ever. Everywhere we stopped, we’d meet three or four locals who were more than happy to give directions, recommend restaurants, bars, tea shops and sites to see.

At one point we met a truck driver who gave us a ton of information and showed us a driving route on a big format ringed binder map book. When he was done talking, he left the book. We told him he was forgetting his book and he said we could have it as it had detailed updated map info of the entire country. It was an expensive book and I knew it, so I told him not to give it away. He insisted and said he didn’t mind.

I still have that map book on my shelf and whenever I see it, I think of that trip and all those people we met.

Totally loved Germany after that.

As a brown Indigenous Canadian … I’d like to agree with you but you’re wrong.

The greatest threat to life and prosperity to the world is billionaires no matter their gender, skin colour, race, nationality or religion.

Republicans? … they were to blame a decade or two ago.

Ever since then, all of America is to blame.

When Yoda takes his regular centennial shower on Degobah, it’s definitely a very deep thought

and it also depends on your family, personal wealth, inheritance and income bracket … because even with these credentials, it can lead you to higher political office

A wise new saying I heard on a Youtube mechanic’s short reels a while ago …

“If you don’t fuck around … you’ll never find out”

https://youtube.com/shorts/GKPU8lNEAZ4

… and that without knowing it has been the motto of my life when it comes to working on things. I learn on my own (mostly because I was never able to afford higher education) and I just tinker with things and often, I will break things but it serves to help me in the future to figure out what not to do. And other times, it saves a lot of work because it made me realize that some problems aren’t so terrible and that they only needed a simple solution.

… and yet again America just looks over their shoulder, shrugs, calls it another day and keeps scrolling on Tik Tok or whatever social media feed they were looking at.

What is the deal with this orange orangutan? The rightwing conservative movement can throw him under the bus and get a new idiot to lead their movement … so why hang the fate of your movement on this moron? Seriously … they could find a younger, stronger more charismatic individual to lead them that would be ten times more dangerous than this aging orange deformed sea lion.

lol … I had a few family members with that mentality … you gave it a few gentle smacks to try to coax it to work and often it did work … but when it didn’t, they’d hit it harder, then harder, then harder until the screen just turned into horizontal or diagonal static which usually meant the thing was destroyed.