Why You Won't Get Rich: Because Capitalism Broke Its Contract with Hard Work

[basquebromance]

what are we supposed to do? stop gathering data about poverty and stop talking about income inequality?

why did MLK die? what did Harriett Tubman fight for? we're gonna keep fighting until working people get...A FIGHTING CHANCE!

 

[basquebromance]

you wanna know why Adam Smith's invisible hand can't be seen? because it's not there!

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

you wanna know why Adam Smith's invisible hand can't be seen? because it's not there!

Eh comrade?

 

[danielpalos]

Simple morals for free can help us achieve this:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Still no bum checks.

 

[danielpalos]

Equality and equal protection of the laws means nothing to the right wing. Vote blue not red!

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

No bum checks.

 

[Ringo]

Under capitalism, a choice is given to a person only if nothing depends on this choice. You can choose food, clothes, car, city of residence. It is impossible to choose the government, to decide who should own the means of production, with whom and when there will be a war.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

to decide who should own the means of production,

The owners.
You want to own the means of production?
Start saving your money.

You can choose food, clothes, car, city of residence.

Do they have choices under communism? Or cars?

 

[Blues Man]

rich people are simply greedy and short-sighted. they want to be at the top of the pack, no matter what the cost to society. it's called zero-sum thinking, which means the only way they can get rich is to take everything away from those below

Anyone and i do mean anyone can accumulate enough wealth in a working lifetime to retire financially secure. It doesn't even take that much money to do it.

 

[LibertyKid]

I see a lot of people decry capitalism and throw out some blanket platitude that the system is not fair and broken.

Can someone please present a decent solution instead of an argument based on emotion?

 

[Ringo]

You can choose food, clothes, car, city of residence.
Do they have choices under communism? Or cars?

No one has ever lived under communism yet. And yes, under communism, a choice is assumed.

 

[LibertyKid]

You can choose food, clothes, car, city of residence.
Do they have choices under communism? Or cars?

No one has ever lived under communism yet. And yes, under communism, a choice is assumed.

If the government allows a choice.... right? With everything owned by "the state", who's to say that choice will be an option.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

No one has ever lived under communism yet.

Thank goodness.
The half-assed communism people lived under was bad enough.

 

[Ringo]

As if, if you're not completely stupid, take a look. The development of the world, industrial, social, cultural, took place only when the ideas of communism were embodied in the minds and in matter. The entire 19th century and part of the 20th are proof of this. Right-wing ideas lead us into savagery and poverty.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

As if, if you're not completely stupid, take a look. The development of the world, industrial, social, cultural, took place only when the ideas of communism were embodied in the minds and in matter. The entire 19th century and part of the 20th are proof of this. Right-wing ideas lead us into savagery and poverty.

Yeah, sure.

 

[Ringo]

Yeah, sure.

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The fact that you put a photo of Hitler next to Stalin is already evidence of illiteracy.
Next to Hitler, you should have placed Queen Victoria, for example, under which, by armed force, England and other European powers (the United States included) obtained the right to sell drugs to China, which really led to many millions of victims among Chinese residents. Every tenth Chinese became a drug addict. The Chinese Communists had to do a lot of work to overcome this catastrophe and treat drug addicts and their children.
Why do I never see a photo of this vile witch in anti-communist propaganda pictures?

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

The only way to reverse the damage is if everyone feels they have a financial stake in society

Finance Leaders Reach Global Tax Deal Aimed at Ending Profit Shifting (Published 2021)

The Group of 7 nations agreed to back a new global minimum tax rate that companies would have to pay regardless of where they are based.

www.nytimes.com

Capitalism has flaws but it is the best system we have in the world today. It perpetuates innovation and drive. Your posts kill more brain cells than alcohol.

 

[Ringo]

Capitalism has flaws but it is the best system we have in the world today. It perpetuates innovation and drive.

You know, they say that experiments were conducted on prisoners in nazi death camps, which led to some results. As well as the butchers from the Japanese detachment 731, they also moved science forward. This is the innovation drive of capitalism in the purest version.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

You know, they say that experiments were conducted on prisoners in nazi death camps, which led to some results. As well as the butchers from the Japanese detachment 731, they also moved science forward. This is the innovation drive of capitalism in the purest version.

That wasn't capitalism that was evil.