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Originally Posted by Patriam1066
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Private companies are indeed bad. The government is just a large enterprise that has all the bad aspects of a corporation + aircraft carriers. I get that you think we're more able to hold our government acccountable but I hate to break it to you, we're an empire. We have bases in over 100 countries (last time I checked) and our navy is the second largest Air Force on earth. Our marine corps is the 4th or 5th largest Air Force. My point is, we hold exactly no one to account. We just witnessed two (and ongoing) absolutely brutal and pointless middle eastern conflicts and were probably moving towards escalation in Syria and Yemen, and who knows, possibly all out war against Iran. Why do you put so much faith on our government? We can't trust bezos, TRUMP, obama, Bill, Bush, musk, or McConnell. We can only put our trust in jesus
God bleSS
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I don't put faith in the government as it currently. I put faith people to understand their self interest in the long run. Things get better. But they never seem to get that way by listening to old well-off conservatives that we should continue things as usual.
Charlie Chaplin said it best
We never used to talk about how America starts wars all around the world. That we are empire. That neoliberalism is a failure. That "socialism" -- meaning democratic socialism -- is a viable alternative. This is all new.
We are in an adjustment period in some sense. We haven't changed as much as we would like to think from the medieval times where our leaders didn't understand economics yet controlled everyone lives as if they did. With their myths about "things just have to work this way -- the treasury needs gold! -- and all the mercantile ineffective policies we followed for many years.
Classical Liberal Capitalism is just another stepping stone. It is not "the end of history."
Zuckerberg's favorite book is: the End of Power. And I don't think he is just cynically recommending it to cover-up his immense power. I think our leaders have been getting nervous for a long time about the newer generations. They got the Hippies under control with T.V. and really good paying jobs for what they were -- But they couldn't keep the payments to the populice up while continuing obscene profit.
What happened to Greece? Remember how hopeless and stupid all those lefty people were for thinking they can get "free stuff"? Well turns out they can. They just get it from the rich. And then the west calls them terrorists to cover up their shame ideology about how necessary "austerity" (stealing from the poor) is.
Economies work better with less rich people in them. With the bar rises and millions of ordinary people are buying things everyday. You know we actually have about the same portion of world wealth we did in the times of the post war economy? We just have that wealth concentrated in Multi-National Corporations based in America...in other words -- its not a fairly tale or a poney that there is enough money in the economy get a regular job and support a family. That was ideology sold to people as these 54 corporations sucked all the resources out of the working class. In fact -- it should be easy as ever with the concept of general plenty in full swing.
Poverty -- in this country -- is manufactured.