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Capitalism vs Corruptism

Journal by Gaaark

I have nothing against capitalism: what we seem to have nowadays is Corruptism.

Corruptism is the collecting of wealth no matter who or what.
Need another dollar? Bribe a politician to make the laws favour corporations over people.
Need ANOTHER dollar? Cut wages and hours.
Need ANOTHER dollar? Layoffs.

It use to be that employers made, what, 400X what their employees made? Now an employee has to work 2-3 jobs just to live while the 'boss' feeds the pork to make ONE MORE DOLLAR!

A little more kindness would see us in a better world.
I'd like to see politicians start thinking of the people who voted for them.

Lets get back to basic Capitalism: Corruptism is not working.

 

Reply to: Re:absurd

    (Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday December 13 2018, @06:54PM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday December 13 2018, @06:54PM (#774079)

    You're still falling for the inevitable fatal flaw of libertarianism: the fewest rules up front does not translate into the most freedom for the most people. Furthermore, capitalism needs proper regulation to prevent the very snowballing effect I've mentioned elsewhere; without it, without redistribution mechanisms, all that happens is an increasingly-quick concentration of wealth, power, and resources into fewer and fewer hands. "The free market" is a chimaera.

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