Because capitalism. Capitalism is basically a philosophy that postulates that people are greedy and selfish, so it makes a society based on greediness and selfishness. It’s a self-realizing prophecy if you ask me.
Another word is needed, this one has become so baggy as to be meaningless. Capitalism has been the predominant economic system across the world for centuries now. It just means the accumulation of surpluses, creating economic growth. It has no a-priori about what’s done with the surpluses.
Just as the Gilded Age and today’s broligarchy were underpinned by capitalism, so were New Deal liberalism and 1980s Swedish social democracy. That last model in particular created a society that was freer and fairer (so: less evil) than any ostensibly “non-capitalist” one has ever been.
It’s good to be angry at capitalism, because capitalism holds unchecked capital acquisition as a foundational right. We know that doesn’t work in a globally connected world, if it ever worked.
Notice that there’s no right to accommodate infinite capital in the phrase I used. And there’s also no complete ban on private property.
The things that work are usually not any of the crap spouted by vocal greedy world leaders.
We need to clip the right that capitalism gives to billionaire, and then see where we stand in the rest of the rules, and decide together what we want to change. We’re likely to find a lot more confortable compromises, after the billionaires thumbs are off the scales.
Because capitalism. Capitalism is basically a philosophy that postulates that people are greedy and selfish, so it makes a society based on greediness and selfishness. It’s a self-realizing prophecy if you ask me.
Another word is needed, this one has become so baggy as to be meaningless. Capitalism has been the predominant economic system across the world for centuries now. It just means the accumulation of surpluses, creating economic growth. It has no a-priori about what’s done with the surpluses.
Just as the Gilded Age and today’s broligarchy were underpinned by capitalism, so were New Deal liberalism and 1980s Swedish social democracy. That last model in particular created a society that was freer and fairer (so: less evil) than any ostensibly “non-capitalist” one has ever been.
The target is well regulated free trade.
It’s good to be angry at capitalism, because capitalism holds unchecked capital acquisition as a foundational right. We know that doesn’t work in a globally connected world, if it ever worked.
Notice that there’s no right to accommodate infinite capital in the phrase I used. And there’s also no complete ban on private property.
The things that work are usually not any of the crap spouted by vocal greedy world leaders.
We need to clip the right that capitalism gives to billionaire, and then see where we stand in the rest of the rules, and decide together what we want to change. We’re likely to find a lot more confortable compromises, after the billionaires thumbs are off the scales.