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F4lconF16

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1. Capitalism is fatally flawed.

Thu Mar 19, 2015, 07:10 PM

Mar 2015

It needs to consume to grow, and that consumption will always be on the backs of the disenfranchised. The system we have right now will not stand forever--the question is, how long will it take to fall?

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Income Inequality Will End in Revolution, Taxes, or War. [View all] JaneyVee Mar 2015 OP

Capitalism is fatally flawed. F4lconF16 Mar 2015 #1

Capitalism is just a name, the truth is people are assholes and usually they become bigger assholes cstanleytech Mar 2015 #24

I disagree. F4lconF16 Mar 2015 #31

To be fair, BlueEye Mar 2015 #40

To be fair PowerToThePeople Mar 2015 #41

Although it isn't Marxism, BlueEye Mar 2015 #43

I agree PowerToThePeople Mar 2015 #44

What all of you ^ are forgetting in the end no matter the label they all involve people cstanleytech Mar 2015 #46

exponential growth in the definition of a bomb PowerToThePeople Mar 2015 #38

Nick Hanauer has been trying to tell them, too. octoberlib Mar 2015 #2

The Hanauer piece is excellent. hifiguy Mar 2015 #6

You've probably seen his Ted Talk , too. That was also excellent. octoberlib Mar 2015 #12

TED tried to censor this Talk, but under criticism for doing so, backed down, closeupready Mar 2015 #21

I read about that. Hanauer called out the Republicans and neo-liberal economics octoberlib Mar 2015 #23

Saw this in Politico last year & Nick on Thom Hartmann 2 years ago. He knows & says it. Thanks. appalachiablue Mar 2015 #26

History shows this is always true. The US was designed to change this librechik Mar 2015 #3

Ain't that the truth. We as a nation have lost our way... bluesbassman Mar 2015 #32

The US wasn't designed to change this. F4lconF16 Mar 2015 #33

If we could get all Americans to look at the chart that the Walton family ALONE has more wealth NoJusticeNoPeace Mar 2015 #4

They only have about 150 billion madville Mar 2015 #9

sigh NoJusticeNoPeace Mar 2015 #10

No way. If the lower 40% all of a sudden got 150 billion and put it all rhett o rick Mar 2015 #16

besides, a good portion of that $150bil would be spent at Wal-Mart - Kip Humphrey Mar 2015 #27

Um... F4lconF16 Mar 2015 #35

It's inevitable. hifiguy Mar 2015 #5

Well one thing I believe to be true, 83 people would have never gained half the world's money Rex Mar 2015 #14

I hope you are using Soviet and China's versions of communism as your source. rhett o rick Mar 2015 #17

Yep. hifiguy Mar 2015 #18

The thieves ALWAYS take over, regardless of the system 7962 Mar 2015 #25

+1000 F4lconF16 Mar 2015 #36

Included in that is the complete manipulation of the stock market & bobalew Mar 2015 #7

The war option is the one that is happening right now with the GOP budget. They're killing us. freshwest Mar 2015 #8

Most of history agrees with you. Rex Mar 2015 #11

That's why the second amendment is so important madville Mar 2015 #13

The army of the tenth-percenters is called hifiguy Mar 2015 #15

Don't forget Blackwater (now called Academi). It's the largest mercenary army in the world and octoberlib Mar 2015 #19

Mercenaries will always serve their paymasters, hifiguy Mar 2015 #20

Mercs would invade their own country if the money was good. Oneironaut Mar 2015 #48

Indeed, police state already here workinclasszero Mar 2015 #29

Many wealthy do not give a diddly squat about income inequality. Greed closeupready Mar 2015 #22

We're reading different histories, she and I pscot Mar 2015 #28

Those aren't mutally exclusive propositions Jack Rabbit Mar 2015 #30

I don't mind reasonable taxes - raven mad Mar 2015 #34

k and r for all the great links bbgrunt Mar 2015 #37

We know what the rich have decided - they want war, that's why they're militarizing police. whereisjustice Mar 2015 #39

Without reading Caretha Mar 2015 #42

The rich are the termites chewing a fallen tree over a raging river. Oneironaut Mar 2015 #45

You Might Want To Add That Anything You Build ChiciB1 Mar 2015 #53

"It's like we've ripped the humanity out of our companies," RiverLover Mar 2015 #47

Tip those tables over... nikto Mar 2015 #49

Solomon: Nothing New Under the Sun. Plato: Five Forms of Socio/Political Structure: libdem4life Mar 2015 #50

And Then You Might Want To Read Thom Hartmann's... ChiciB1 Mar 2015 #51

Revolution is the best option. My torches and pitchforks are Zorra Mar 2015 #52