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What is something that is completely legal that should be illegal? (midwest.social)

submitted 7 months ago by Lanky_Pomegranate530@midwest.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] CooperRedArmyDog@lemmy.ml 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Capitalism, Literaly all of capitalism.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Fun fact: Pyramid Schemes (now called MLMs) cannot be made fully illegal because they are pure expressions of capitalism. In order to make them fully illegal they would have to admit the entire system is a scam, which they obviously aren't willing to do since they benefit from it.

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Inb4 a Supreme Court ruling including “MLMs are like hard-core pornography - ‘I know it when I see it.’”

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

That's just stupid enough to work.