A bunch of policies are good both for society and for capitalism (universal healthcare, free college/trade school, taxing the rich). Why don’t we tackle those before we argue amongst ourselves?
Universal Healthcare in their view is bad because it retracts capitalism for insurance “providers”. Free college to them is bad because it retracts capitalism from banks who are able to create loans that follow someone their entire life through multiple bankruptcies. Taxing the rich is bad from their perspective because they think a higher tax burden retracts from the goal of capitalism, which is to be a slumlord or whatever.
They don’t allow those problems to be put* aside for the enormous benefits and freer economy when people aren’t living paycheck to paycheck scared of what the next emergency is going to be with their body.
I agree, but put another way, it’s much harder to show actions that result in profits for their big donors if the method of those profits being bigger is filtered through regular people and increasing their ability to afford the products of said donor. By keeping us out of the loop they can take more credit when their 6 or 2 year review comes up.
Even when giving us that ability to afford things may in many cases lead to capital interests becoming very rich maybe even more rich than if they had put their effort torwards deregulation or corporate socialism/subsidies instead, especially in markets where the products are expensive but desirable to most people.
A bunch of policies are good both for society and for capitalism (universal healthcare, free college/trade school, taxing the rich). Why don’t we tackle those before we argue amongst ourselves?
Universal Healthcare in their view is bad because it retracts capitalism for insurance “providers”. Free college to them is bad because it retracts capitalism from banks who are able to create loans that follow someone their entire life through multiple bankruptcies. Taxing the rich is bad from their perspective because they think a higher tax burden retracts from the goal of capitalism, which is to be a slumlord or whatever.
They don’t allow those problems to be put* aside for the enormous benefits and freer economy when people aren’t living paycheck to paycheck scared of what the next emergency is going to be with their body.
Edit: put*, not out
Then they don’t understand capitalism very well.
I agree, but put another way, it’s much harder to show actions that result in profits for their big donors if the method of those profits being bigger is filtered through regular people and increasing their ability to afford the products of said donor. By keeping us out of the loop they can take more credit when their 6 or 2 year review comes up.
Even when giving us that ability to afford things may in many cases lead to capital interests becoming very rich maybe even more rich than if they had put their effort torwards deregulation or corporate socialism/subsidies instead, especially in markets where the products are expensive but desirable to most people.
You are totally right, and I hate that our politicians are so nearsighted and greedy. Bleck.
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