tech hasn't stagnated, it's become corrupted by upper class influence and is being used to exploit us and rip us all off, this is how classism works

Sadly, Fortnite is plagued by cheaters that epic will not ban because they are 'customers' which makes sense because the cheaters just recreate a free account; however, Epic could easily address this by matching the cheaters with other cheaters and by making its matchmaking fair, as in SBMM instead of EOMM. Let's face facts' Epic is just using honest players, including kids, as targets for hackers, cheaters, streamers and sweats, and making millions doing so, it's clearly unethical and it's clearly abusive, gaming isn't about gaming anymore, it's all about rich people getting needlessly richer at our expense. Just saying.

(don't complain about cheating or the high price of vbucks on r/fortniteBR, it will just get you banned there)

not necessarily, if you factor in economics, I'd say vehicles have become less economical to maintain and more unaffordable relatively speaking

in a manipulated market the products serve the makers, not the users

Exactly, this is just typical classist and corporate propaganda from the BBC. Big Media is always sending the same messages.

I disagree with your definition, let's use the accepted definition as, "Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their use for the purpose of obtaining profit."

The problem is most people are unable to participate because they are not able to accumulate capital due to the unethical nature of the current economy. The problem is in the unethical part and in the part where people cannot accumulate capital in the first place. An unfair system is unjust by definition. Without access to capital, people cannot capitalize, thus there is no capitalism for the majority of people, thus thus this is not capitalism but it is economic slavery. Just look around, see all the poverty, that's a sure sign of slavery, not capitalism,

Broken systems are dysfunctional, if this ever was capitalism, it's broken. Obviously.

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when capital is used by those who need it in order to get by, that capital needs to be earned and spent, thus capitalism needs to be both fair and equitable in order to function properly

communism is just community, people co-operating together, which is normal

we actually have both operating in conjunction all the time

people are so bent on terminology that they simply don't see our real problems for what they are, greed and hoarding

people would buy better vehicles if better vehicles were available. imagine if corporations reinvested profits rather than skimming them off

Deaths are caused by vehicle exhaust globally ~ https://ourworldindata.org/gra...

Estimates range from 200,000 to 400,000+ deaths per year due to tailpipe emissions (mainly PM2.5 and NO).
ICCT (2015): ~385,000 deaths
WHO/GBD: Vehicle exhaust contributes to part of 4.2 million air pollution deaths
EU (EEA): ~70,000 deaths/year in Europe from traffic-related pollution

The justifications continue...

the reality is the upper middle class and the upper class not only often flaunt their wealth and excessive consumption, they compete with the size of their hoards

you entirely misunderstand, this has little to do with the upper class's unsustainable footprints and far more to do with how they've corrupted and enslaved our societies and crippled our progress

This is the reality. Most people just use terminology as self-justification without really understanding the issues they're discussing. Most of this is greedy people pretending it's okay to cheat and steal as long as they think they can get away with it.

Neither Stalin, Mao nor North Korea is communistic. They are despotic. Communism is like the Hutterites, the Kibbutz movement or the hippies. Sadly what pseudo-conservative people often call ‘communism’ is really despotism, as in the USSR, North Korea and China. These are not communistic, they are ‘command economies’ run by ‘tyrants’ which are closer to fascism than they are to communism. Or perhaps people are referring to the ‘Communist Manifesto’ by Karl Marx, which is a one hundred year old political theory that focuses on class discrimination that sadly still exists to this day? No, instead I think it’s the same old pseudo-conservative boogeyman political fundamentalists are always trying to slur people with.

No one is talking communism either, typical red herring. What we need is economic justice, rule of law and a rejection of classism.

We don't have capitalism; what we have is pseudo-capitalism. It can't be real capitalism when 15% of us own and control 85% of all capital, that only leaves 15% of all capital for the 85% of the rest of us. Most people are severely under-capitalized. As in poor. Think wage slaves. That's us.

the upper class is morally and ethically challenged, nor can the think straight with such twisted values, these are people who need to lie to themselves just so they can look in a mirror without seeing how evil and abusive they are

cars aren't better nor are the corrupt economic systems that allowed such pollution and economic exploitation in the first place, this is exactly what classism looks like, corruption and environmental degradation and poor people suffering

how, by enforcing the laws fairly and justly, of course