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In reply to the discussion: Report: Wage theft in the US is ‘an epidemic’ [View all]Adam051188
(711 posts)no one is willing to say what is actually going on. i'm talking about the abject failure of the voodoo nonsense economics the american fascist state has been peddling since a couple decades before the formation of the federal reserve bank.
capitalism is a disaster. the western world is the richest, most powerful political entity the world has ever known and it is destroying itself from within due to it's own inability to come to terms with the reality of it's irrational beliefs.
capitalism is economic monarchy. why is monarchy bad? because people with power over other people abuse their power.
what is happening in the u.s. right now is a loose coalition of well funded groups are trying to slap some lipstick on this pig and keep her running for a few more decades. bring back a few unions, raise the minimum wage, toss in the ACA or maybe some medicare for everyone and vuala, an economy that cannot be reasonably described as neo-feudal.
and then the u.s. gets to remain a semi-backwater nation on par with russia in every respect except for our aircraft carriers, population size, and....there must be something else....i'll think of it....