My boomer relatives send me links all the time, so I refuse to believe they aren't aware that the audience one is currently addressing is not necessarily the audience that will ultimately judge one's words. But I can't think of any other explanation for Marcus to provide this pull quote?
To your point, we don't have capitalism. We have Cronie Capitalism. The naming is genius in that it has little if anything to do with actual capitalism. It's so convincing that even those who should know better (e.g., Home Depot's Marcus) spew snake oil.
The entire basis for human society is socialism: the cooperative, collective effort to produce food, shelter, and safety for one’s community (read: tribe, village, township, nation).
It is a damn shame that the term has been so crudely abused and distorted in the USA, becoming the go-to bogeyman for those that wish to prevent the working class from their share of the wealth of the nation. No universal healthcare for you people: it would enable you to find a better job without fear of losing your benefits. No social safety nets, lest it give you the security to seek out something better.
So long as all y’all refuse to work together to better everyone’s circumstances, all y’all will continue to suffer at the hands of those with the money and political power.
And a damn shame that Kleenex® is synonymous with Scott’s Nose Tissues. You can rules-argue that no one should be saying “Kleenex” when asking for a tissue. IMO not worth debating; it would be missing the forest for the trees.
Coming from someone who doesn't work anymore because of capitalism...
If you view owners as harvesters/predators of the available labor force to accumulate for themselves, full employment means diminished actual competition between them for resources and lower yields. He wouldn't be rich if people had better options to begin with.
Home Depot jobs in my area pay $0.50/hr better than McDonald's. McDonald's is honest work, I'm not dunking on it, just a reference point. So Home Depot is a job, and you come home smelling maybe better. Not like he started something head and shoulders better to work for.
I'm particularly amused by this line of "reasoning".
First, the problem does not even exist in objective reality - as the article states, employment is at an all time high.
Second, even if the proximate problem were real, the causality must be attributed to the economic system we actually have, not to a theoretical socialist strawman.
These statements project an inner world of ideological fantasy that bear no resemblance to facts. A better take, more grounded in reality, might be "American-style capitalism is working exactly as intended".
Ah yes, the time tested socialism scapegoat. Just enough high schoolers swallowed the capitalist economics fallacies force fed during their formative years to make this a profitable pursuit for many decades after. But the tide is turning. Judging by the comments, we the peasants are figuring out what slavery looks like these days.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 37.5 ms ] threadIt is a damn shame that the term has been so crudely abused and distorted in the USA, becoming the go-to bogeyman for those that wish to prevent the working class from their share of the wealth of the nation. No universal healthcare for you people: it would enable you to find a better job without fear of losing your benefits. No social safety nets, lest it give you the security to seek out something better.
So long as all y’all refuse to work together to better everyone’s circumstances, all y’all will continue to suffer at the hands of those with the money and political power.
If you view owners as harvesters/predators of the available labor force to accumulate for themselves, full employment means diminished actual competition between them for resources and lower yields. He wouldn't be rich if people had better options to begin with.
Home Depot jobs in my area pay $0.50/hr better than McDonald's. McDonald's is honest work, I'm not dunking on it, just a reference point. So Home Depot is a job, and you come home smelling maybe better. Not like he started something head and shoulders better to work for.
First, the problem does not even exist in objective reality - as the article states, employment is at an all time high.
Second, even if the proximate problem were real, the causality must be attributed to the economic system we actually have, not to a theoretical socialist strawman.
These statements project an inner world of ideological fantasy that bear no resemblance to facts. A better take, more grounded in reality, might be "American-style capitalism is working exactly as intended".