Captalism has given power to the people. With $25, I can start a company in the US, which has the possibility of making me very wealthy.
This is not the case in any country that has embraced socialism.
Most of this is just a smokescreen anyway. Even the social groups that protest are organized and mostly paid for by people with deep pockets to maintain power.
Nobody truly wants to help the people. Money is power and it has been for almost all of humanity.
I'm just surprised that a group that claims to be intelligent clamors for a system that ensures they will never keep they money they earned.
I think Bernie Sanders is proposing some rather mild reforms that most people (in the world) agree with. It's only in the country of far right-wingers like the Republican party where the solution to everything is giving corporations all the tax breaks they want and that most social programs should be cut, are his ideas seen as more "radical" - and even that it's mainly coming from the Republican/Fox News types, or corporate media in general (who sees itself potentially directly impacted by his proposals. If you look at the polls, most Americans agree with all of his proposals.
I for one think the US is lucky - yes, lucky - that it got a candidate so honest, that cares deeply about making the middle class and the poor lives' better, and that he's also about as anti-authoritarian as you can find (he's even been saying from day one of his campaign that he can't get anything done by himself unless the people want it, too).
The reason I say the US is lucky to get someone like him to reform capitalism, is because if he doesn't get elected, you're going to get someone that's not just more extreme far left, but also authoritarian, and the people will be so fed up with the government's and the elites' cronyism by then that they will have NO QUALMS with seeing that authoritarian leader put all of the corrupt politicians' heads on spikes in front of Capital Hill.
I still believe that Trump is still quite unpredictable, and he also may not be that guy because he's also a billionaire himself, one of those very elites - but who knows, perhaps him getting to be president will be far more important to him than not hurting his businesses with various reforms.
But what I'm actually trying to say is that the next next president may be far worse if the cronyism continues. The "saner" elites should welcome a degree of reform that strengthens the middle class and the poor - and it would also mean more customers with more money to buy products from them.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 14.1 ms ] threadCaptalism has given power to the people. With $25, I can start a company in the US, which has the possibility of making me very wealthy.
This is not the case in any country that has embraced socialism.
Most of this is just a smokescreen anyway. Even the social groups that protest are organized and mostly paid for by people with deep pockets to maintain power.
Nobody truly wants to help the people. Money is power and it has been for almost all of humanity.
I'm just surprised that a group that claims to be intelligent clamors for a system that ensures they will never keep they money they earned.
I for one think the US is lucky - yes, lucky - that it got a candidate so honest, that cares deeply about making the middle class and the poor lives' better, and that he's also about as anti-authoritarian as you can find (he's even been saying from day one of his campaign that he can't get anything done by himself unless the people want it, too).
The reason I say the US is lucky to get someone like him to reform capitalism, is because if he doesn't get elected, you're going to get someone that's not just more extreme far left, but also authoritarian, and the people will be so fed up with the government's and the elites' cronyism by then that they will have NO QUALMS with seeing that authoritarian leader put all of the corrupt politicians' heads on spikes in front of Capital Hill.
I still believe that Trump is still quite unpredictable, and he also may not be that guy because he's also a billionaire himself, one of those very elites - but who knows, perhaps him getting to be president will be far more important to him than not hurting his businesses with various reforms.
But what I'm actually trying to say is that the next next president may be far worse if the cronyism continues. The "saner" elites should welcome a degree of reform that strengthens the middle class and the poor - and it would also mean more customers with more money to buy products from them.