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Re:The Horrors of Pompeii by GolfPopper on Friday July 07, 2023 @07:43PM (#36639736)
I suspect it's a combination of looking around and going "this can't possibly be stable" combined with a degree of wish-fulfillment.
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Re:The Horrors of Pompeii by nerdponx on Friday July 07, 2023 @08:38PM (#36640103)
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Re:The Horrors of Pompeii by Tronno on Saturday July 08, 2023 @01:54AM (#36641714)
That might be reading into it too much. I'm pretty sure it's just a joke that capitalism is cancer. As in, "late-stage cancer".
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Re:The Horrors of Pompeii by nerdponx on Saturday July 08, 2023 @02:15AM (#36641821)
Synonymous terms have been used in leftist/Marxist literature for a long time, that's always where I assumed it came from: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/late-ca...
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Re:The Horrors of Pompeii by c_crank on Friday July 07, 2023 @10:05PM (#36640658)
Is "this" capitalism?
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