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- noun pejorative
Corrupt orinauthentic capitalism ; capitalism viewed as an inherentlyflawed orunjust system .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I like to call it crapitalism because eventually capitalists will make crap and charge the max for it.
MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Responsible for the Lack of Public Interest in Space Exploration? 2008
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- you refer to capitalism as "crapitalism" and point it out if no one picks up on it
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Francis Fucking Fukuyama's imbecilic meditation on the glories of crapitalism.
Progressive Bloggers 2010
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CAP and TRADE is just more hocus pocus for crapitalism to keep profits above life!
CNN Political Ticker 2009
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And so the agents of business-as-usual, or Crapitalism as I call it, are at best trapped in an Abilene paradox in which they assume everyone else around them wants to keep the current system going, or they actually are as disconnected from reality as Peter Thiel (who apparently believes Greta Thunberg is the AntiChrist.)
bilby commented on the word crapitalism
A bodgy system of economics premised on the free circulation of misery in the guise of money. Shitty.
February 8, 2009