I drink your milkshake! a metaphor for capitalism
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Babagounj
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Yippeeee I made it.
yea i mean can any society really carry on with inequality that bad.
dril grieves 
i was thinking with the UPS shooting that we should imagine how many people have considered shootings at UPS and why and what does it have to do with capitalism.
capitalism is a system which centralizes decision making (like state communism, slavery, feudalism) and it centralizes wealth. when the many are being told what to do all the time to maximize profits for the few, it leads to adverse outcomes like mass shootings, suicides, preventable workplace injuries, loss of liberty, tyranny, and increased misery.
capitalism also leads to bail outs with tax payers money like state communism does.
capitalism is a system which centralizes decision making (like state communism, slavery, feudalism) and it centralizes wealth. when the many are being told what to do all the time to maximize profits for the few, it leads to adverse outcomes like mass shootings, suicides, preventable workplace injuries, loss of liberty, tyranny, and increased misery.
capitalism also leads to bail outs with tax payers money like state communism does.
haha.
dont worry, mcdonalds will give all the workers who will lose their jobs new ones, mcdonalds will share the profits from automation with all the workers including ones who lost their jobs, and everyone will live happily ever after.
capitalism will bring about its own destruction with automation and especially environmental destruction:
U.S. Dept. of Fear @FearDept 9h9 hours ago
We understand they plan to pay each store's remaining employee -- a software engineer -- as much as $15/hour.
McDonalds Is Replacing 2,500 Human Cashiers With Digital Kiosks: Here Is Its Math
dont worry, mcdonalds will give all the workers who will lose their jobs new ones, mcdonalds will share the profits from automation with all the workers including ones who lost their jobs, and everyone will live happily ever after.
capitalism will bring about its own destruction with automation and especially environmental destruction:
U.S. Dept. of Fear @FearDept 9h9 hours ago
We understand they plan to pay each store's remaining employee -- a software engineer -- as much as $15/hour.
McDonalds Is Replacing 2,500 Human Cashiers With Digital Kiosks: Here Is Its Math
wkmac
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Or the US Govt and Federal Reserve policy could take the economy into inflation mode which might also serve in some respect to do that. And the govt would have an interest in doing this as well as a cheap way of paying down the debt by means of reducing the Debt to GDP % ratio. Inflation would also boost total tax revenues so there is that as well.
But over the longhaul, it would still be the poor and the working class who would shoulder this burden as inflation is nothing more than another form of taxation by means of monetary devaluation. I find it interesting that in the 20th century the US entered a policy of centralization as a means of efficiency among other things and seems to me as society became more centralized, so to did wealth also follow this trend of consolidation. Maybe the real secret to spreading the wealth is the opposite direction of centralization and that be de-centralization. An idea quite frankly that neither political party in Washington seems willing at all to embrace. De-centralization also means de-centralization of power too.
wkmac
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I think this was coming no matter what the hourly wage rate is.
yea people just like to blame the hourly wage to keep it low. even if it was $15 per hour, what are we really celebrating. thats no achievement. if i had to choose between people having jobs and automation which puts pressure on the capitalist system, id choose the latter.
if that inequality post above is true (thats the only place i heard it from) it is amazing how fast the system concentrates wealth. the oxfam worldwide inequality stats were pretty stunning in terms of speed of concentration, but this one really blew me away
CounterPunchVerified account @NatCounterPunch 13h13 hours ago
Less than ten people now have the financial wealth equivalent to half the planet. https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/26/lies-that-capitalists-tell-us/ …
Less than ten people now have the financial wealth equivalent to half the planet. https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/26/lies-that-capitalists-tell-us/ …
DriveInDriveOut
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hey they got 4 or 5 weeks guaranteed vacation by law, and healthcare for all you know! they also have mandatory voting which means they get 98% turnouts. better hope they have a "none of the above" on the ballot
speaking of working, they are much more laid back than north americans
hey since your so interested in economic systems, heres an interview with gar alperovitz and ralph nader. people who defend capitalism should be experts or at least aware of the different kinds of economic models. i know i simplifiy things myself, but the whole binary debate between capitalism and socialism seems like propaganda to me considering its so basic when really there are alot of things that can be done to change the economy. people should also be experts on the mentality between slaves loving their masters and how that carries over to workers loving their capitalist masters.
Gar Alperovitz is an historian, political economist, activist, writer, and government official. In addition to a distinguished career in academia, he is also the president of the National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives and is a co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative, a research institution developing practical, policy-focused, and systematic paths towards ecologically sustainable, community-oriented change and the democratization of wealth. His latest project is called the “Pluralist Commonwealth”, which is an economic model that is neither traditional corporate capitalism nor traditional state socialism.
“It’s time to build new economic institutions that are democratic but also –critically- give us a new power base as well in the communities around the country.” Gar Alperovitz on the New Economy Movement
https://ralphnaderradiohour.com/hitlers-modelthe-shape-of-a-new-economy/
theres an older video with bernie sanders and rand paul talking about single payer, and rand paul calls it "slavery" LOL. reminds me of that.
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buddy, wait till you hear about capitalism:
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woke hoover @vs_cointelpro Jun 27buddy, wait till you hear about capitalism:
BrownArmy
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Fakey fakey fake fake.
Aren't you the one crying about 'fake' news?
You should be ashamed of yourself.
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