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In reply to the discussion: A Scary Fact. [View all]dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)6. Agree
More socialism less capitalism would be a great change for this country.
Another problem with capitalism is it is biased towards growth. It's like cancer, it grows and grows and kills the host eventually.
At this point, we need to shrink, not grow, and fairly rapidly. Capitalism doesn't know how to scale back gracefully. We need many less people on this planet, and that will require scaling back strategies. The capitalist model is more like a species that has no predators and expands until it outruns its environment, when it tragically crashes.
We change, now, or we perish.
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The looting by the 1% is the reason why more people need benefits. I'm convinced one reason
brewens
Jul 2015
#1
The reality is that even welfare has been transferred from the people to corporations.
tecelote
Jul 2015
#2
The 1% are actually way in the black when it comes to tax dollars. At least many of them
brewens
Jul 2015
#3
They create the problem and then point to the problem and make that the reason to cut
brewens
Jul 2015
#34
Global population of 14 Billion? Very doubtful, as the globe is bounded by carrying capacity
drynberg
Jul 2015
#4
There are no alternatives to Social Security and Medicare but fucking death.
Enthusiast
Jul 2015
#17
And despite that massive population increase, this still fits a lot of people...
Spitfire of ATJ
Jul 2015
#23