On a spectrum ranging from 1 to 10 where Capitalism is 1 and Regulated Capitalism 10, we are at 3 maybe 4. The GOP thinks we’re at 12, so do those in the “matrix”.
On a spectrum ranging from 1 to 10 where Capitalism is 1 and Regulated Capitalism 10, we are at 3 maybe 4. The GOP thinks we’re at 12, so do those in the “matrix”.
The GOP thinks we are at 12 in industrial regulation.
We are barely at 3 or 4 in financial regulation.
Yeah, I know it’s hard. That’s why our founders thought we needed universal education. The only way to have a democracy is to have an educated population, and an informed one that can understand these issues and a skosh of nuance.
The opposition to Democracy knows that. Why else are they trying to destroy education and the media.
It’s way too easy to destroy. So hard to build.
I’m trying NOTto give up, which is what they want us to do.
[For the record, if not a structured and regulated capitalist system, what do you propose?]
Yes, it is so hard to build, so easy to destroy. When we are angry we want to destroy. As we can see from our own experience, a society with lots of angry people becomes a self-wreaking society. Trump and his supporters want to destroy, and promise us to return to a past that never existed. Any one who supports Trump is delusional.
In the place of “regulation,” if that word is a sticking point, say “unstructured” then. But our system of capitalism has too few fences, for sure. I like private ownrship and entrepreneurial energy, and group ownership and labor cooperatives .. lots of ways to do a thing … with rules and structure and expectations and “fences” that protect the public from exploitation…
On a spectrum ranging from 1 to 10 where Capitalism is 1 and Regulated Capitalism 10, we are at 3 maybe 4. The GOP thinks we’re at 12, so do those in the “matrix”.
The GOP thinks we are at 12 in industrial regulation.
We are barely at 3 or 4 in financial regulation.
Yeah, I know it’s hard. That’s why our founders thought we needed universal education. The only way to have a democracy is to have an educated population, and an informed one that can understand these issues and a skosh of nuance.
The opposition to Democracy knows that. Why else are they trying to destroy education and the media.
It’s way too easy to destroy. So hard to build.
I’m trying NOTto give up, which is what they want us to do.
[For the record, if not a structured and regulated capitalist system, what do you propose?]
Yes, it is so hard to build, so easy to destroy. When we are angry we want to destroy. As we can see from our own experience, a society with lots of angry people becomes a self-wreaking society. Trump and his supporters want to destroy, and promise us to return to a past that never existed. Any one who supports Trump is delusional.
In the place of “regulation,” if that word is a sticking point, say “unstructured” then. But our system of capitalism has too few fences, for sure. I like private ownrship and entrepreneurial energy, and group ownership and labor cooperatives .. lots of ways to do a thing … with rules and structure and expectations and “fences” that protect the public from exploitation…