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Pyramid of Capitalist System

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71 points mpiedrav | 1 comments | 06 Feb 20 14:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.258s | source
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gremlinsinc ◴[06 Feb 20 16:10 UTC] No.22257147[source]▶
Seriously, why is this flagged? I think it's very interesting and something definitely worthy of discussion. Is this just that anything that remotely appears to dis capitalism gets the flag because 'socialism is scary'?
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1. mpiedrav ◴[06 Feb 20 18:32 UTC] No.22258761[source]▶
OP here. HN moderators are right in flagging the post. Not because of the content of the Wikipedia article, but because of the plenty of vitriolic comments it caused. Their posting policy probably has to do with such situations.

The idea was to consider the historical criticism of capitalism in a modern setting (e.g., how effective is the market in addressing economic inequality?). The discussion got out of control, though.