The explanation given in the picture condemns capitalism, not socialism.
Capitalism is the system that assumes actors work in their own rational self interest. It’s when capitalism gives “free stuff” that people need to worry about the hidden cost.
The transaction in this case is that the mouse trades its life for a chance of getting food. But, as is typical for capitalism, the person who offers the transaction is intentionally concealing its true cost, making it impossible for the mouse to make any rational decision.
The person who originally made that meme seems to believe that socialism simply means “free stuff”. But a mouse trap baited with food is an absolutely textbook example of capitalism.
capitalism will you give me free social media
for increased social bandwidth with friends?
yesssssss
actually creates a hellhole of ad supported data theft, harassment, misinformation, and networks of abuse
Until I got to your comment I actually thought I had read capitalism. I just thought it was the “if it’s free, you’re the product”.
Yes, I read it and said, “Where’s the government?” I don’t think you can have socialism without a government or some equivalent. If it’s just two entities interacting without outside regulation, then it’s definitely not something specific to socialism.
if you don’t already own capital, everything you buy is paid for with your labor/body/self.
every day we give over small pieces of ourselves just to live in a world that someone else created.
socialism is when the people own the mousetrap
That’s closer to the way communism is generally used. Socialism would be more like if the government had a mousetrap program where it distributed mousetraps to people with rodent problems.
I say “generally used” because some people have used “socialism” and “communism” interchangeably, but I think it’s just confusing to do that today.
MICE DIE IN MOUSE TRAPS BECAUSE A METAL BAR SLAMS DOWN AND BREAKS THEIR NECKS.
THE SAME THING HAPPENS WITH POLICE BRUTALITY.
Realpolitik
I only use catch and release traps so your argument is comoletely invalidated. Ibam the smaetersts :3
Tin cat?
Don’t mice eat free all their lives? It’s their nature. Humans decide to kill them based on “My cheese!”
yeah. it is not that “mice don’t understand why the cheese is free”. they don’t understand the concept of ownership or money to begin with
Besides, rodents are monarchists, not socialists
Capitalism: and we can charge them for the cheese, too!
capitalism: no cheese, just the trap and the promise that some day you might be able to afford cheese
and the hospital charges after you get caught in the trap
mice don’t pay taxes dumbass
How do you know?! Maybe mice do pay taxes! Maybe mice are secretly the illuminati too!!……BIRDS AREN’T REAL THEY’RE JUST GOVERNMENT DRONES!!!
The Mouse paid 1.33 billion in income tax alone last year.
and thats about to change thanks to zohran
Meanwhile, people voting for Trump because they think they’re going to get $500 of cheddar during tax season.
Look I had this dream about Jesus not coming back until we ate the giant wheel of cheese that they rolled in front of his tomb now we just gotta find the right cheese
Facebook is socialist, apparently
Mice die in mouse traps because I buy the ‘humane’ ones then forget to check them for weeks, leading to much greater cruelty than normal ones.
I had an issue with mice a couple of years ago, and it came to blows. I am not proud to say that I committed some horrific atrocities to mouse-kind that will haunt me for the rest of my days.
That said, legends of my brutality must have spread because I haven’t had a mouse issue in years.
We had an issue with mice coming inside at our old house. But we had 7 cats, so the problem was I would come into the kitchen in the morning to find blood streaks on the floor where the cats had their fun with the latest intruder. Then I had to dispose of the body. So I never had to partake in the cruelty myself, but I had to deal with its aftermath.
The mice never seemed to figure out that ours was a house of death. But we had a really cool exterminator that wouldn’t try to up-sell us on stuff. He always gave us good advice on dealing with various pests. He helped us find the places where the mice were getting in the house and seal them. That’s the best solution if you can do it.
Otherwise, what’s the plan once you catch them?
Drive far away and release them?
Drive to Alberta and release them.
So long as it’s not rats, I’m cool with it
Considering the urban sprawl here that would make it someone else’s problem, not cool
Mice die in mousetraps because they need the cheese to live, and have no control over the means in which the metal bar clamps down
Some of them are even smart enough to figure it out after seeing another mouse die, and can disarm the traps by dropping things on it.
From my experience, it’s more like they let one die and the rest feast off of the dead one. We had a well house that was infested with mice. I’d set several traps up a night, come back the next day, all tripped and just bones left in the trap. Pretty mind blowing.
I think that’s rats. Mice are a bit dumber.
as someone who had rattos, they are wicked smart. THey can be litter trained, and can be taught tricks. I saw a video or article or some such that ratties like driving around in little motorised cars. It was cute as fuck.
Rats seem super cool to have as pets, but honestly, I couldn’t take having a pet with a lifespan of ~2 years. It’d break me.
Yup. I loved my boys with all my heart (still do tbh), but the 2-4 year life span (4 if you’re SUPER lucky) is just too short :( I won’t get anymore rattos because fo that.
yea, if you’re dumb enough to think that reading a book can “turn” someone gay, then of course you’re going to think libraries are traps that will kill you. republicans are so fucking stupid
Ironically, the closest thing I can think of to this concept actually applying in humans would be “free” internet stuff that is actually funded by advertising and personal data harvesting, which is unrelated to socialism but does describe the place that original post looks to have come from.
but it’s not free I’m paying for it
Except that isn’t why they die. A really stupid person thought that was clever.
What happens is they eat the cheese and expect to pay for it, but they can’t find any means of paying so they die while waiting for a member of staff to turn up. That’s because capitalism is nature’s way and anything else is against God.
It’s been a minute since I’ve seen one of these “Socialism is when Capitalism” switcharoos.
Mix some oats into the peanut butter and roll into a marble sized ball. Much easier to handle and mold onto the traps trigger assembly.
good tip but id want to eat it myself
You can make extras
huge
Oh snap
Yes, their necks.
