A majority of millennials now reject capitalism, poll shows

These old timers like Clinton are on their last leg and just trying to get their name in the history books and money in their pockets before what is coming within the next 15 yrs.

like what they'll say about them.

an era get good marks in a history book.

that many, many people in my generation feel the same way.

And of course my generation hates capitalism. An economic collapse will do that to ya.

That's cool it's so great that young people are starting to think beyond capitalism.

I hope they also are thinking about what kind of system they do want, and what it would take to make it happen.

And what good news. Times are a changin'...I just don't know if it's fast enough :/

We all know where it trickled ... or should I say the gushed. To the top 1% of this country.

Unregulated Capitalism leads to crime and corruption
like accumulating garbage leads to cockroaches.


2 + 2 = 4

And socialism? Forget it. I can hear it now. "Socialism? Ummm. Well, ummm..."

Free stuff.

Socialism is great until the gun is put to your head.
Socialism is taking from hard working people and giving to druggies, welfare queens, foreigners and free-loaders who are too lazy or stupid to work.

Do I really need the icon?

But ya had me going.

..they figured it out, given the tremendous, constant pro-capitalist propaganda all around.

Very hopeful.

the young are not tuning in (at least not in large numbers) to TV media. They are getting their info elsewhere.

What goes under the label of "free market" (Reaganomics, neoliberalism, supply-side, trickle-down) isn't capitalism; it's fraud. A healthy economy cannot be dominated by a parasitic industry like banking and finance. The whole scheme is to cycle and recycle debt. We need oil, so let's go to war and claim our oil under the Arabs' sand. Going to war is very, very expensive, so we go into debt. Get a college education, one goes into debt. Can't make ends meet with all that debt? Don't worry, the bank will extend your credit, and then extend it some more. Banking is a funny industry. Money in the bank may be an asset to you and me, but it's a liability to the bank; the bank has to pay you interest on your savings. On the other hand, your debt is an asset to the bank, because you're going to pay it back, someday. You may have to go into your savings, but if the the system starts to collapse, they may legally steal your savings first.

Isn't banking deregulation and modernization wonderful? There's no such thing a fraud. Fraud is legal, and if it's legal, then it isn't fraud, is it?

I'm not young and haven't been for a long time, but I certainly don't blame young people today for turning way from anything so decadent as the free market. This certainly isn't my Dad's capitalism.

and will destroy democracy if the economic revolution doesn't succeed,

for illustrating my post!

......both capitalism and socialism as we know them are obsolete. That was a brave statement then; it still is; but, it looks like more people are agreeing.

Eugene Debs ran for the presidency 5 times and lost, and Bernie Sanders is about to make it 0-for-6 for democratic socialism in America. We don't need it, but thanks for trying.

please delete your post or I will block you.

we were just talking yesterday in this group about doing a primer on socialism.

boost and generated hopefully some curiosity if nothing else.