Herp derp “job creators exercising the noblest of impulses: rational self-interest”
The greatest cultural propaganda the owners achieved through their for profit media and captured education, particularly economics, that enabled all others was that greed/avarice was not the personal failing, character deficit, and destructive force that it is, but instead the highest of virtue.
Its not. The Gordon Geckos, Mr. Potters, and Ebenezer Scrooges in fiction were cautionary tales, villains. Yet they’ve convinced us that that is what we should either be or worship.
For most people if you never had to work a day of your life for you to live a decent life you probably would follow your own interests. And I’m not blaming you for that, but mass wealth isn’t accomplished by everyone going on a journey of selffulfillment. Which economic system works better might I ask you?
It’s not just about different systems. It’s about priorities.
The Nordic model keeps capitalism heavily, heavily straightjacked, to power the wellbeing of society.
Taxes aren’t largely resented, because everyone is educated to understand that when you succeed, the society you’re a part of succeeds. No one fears going to a doctor, higher education is based on academic merit because everyone benefits from an educated populace. When you succeed, you are taxed to a degree that would make our capitalists cry. Yet they are the happiest people’s in the world. And if that isn’t the goal of any society, they’re doing it wrong. We don’t prioritize that at all, only how high our most effective sociopaths can fly.
Here, the tail has been wagging the dog for a long time, the false promise of being “free” to attain society warping levels of wealth has toxified our culture into forgeting that freedom devoid of responsibility is a rampage. Meanwhile everyone else is free to die in the gutter alone for the crime of not making them enough money.
Letting people gain enough wealth to warp society beyond their single vote, and more, not punishing trying to infect our politics with life imprisonment, has destroyed our democracy, it’s all for show. You pick a major party, and I’ll show you a party that’s been bought and paid for by the same people, to the point they’ve made it all perfectly legal since Reagan and especially since Citizens United.
Capitalism belongs in making optional widgets for a reasonable profit it has no place in sectors people need to survive. Those should be socialized, because in those sectors stability is more important than economic growth/metastasis.
If it isn’t enough motivation to have a peak of maybe 2 really big homes and 1 really big boat, then I question that person’s motivations and recognition that they are a member of a society and not society’s owner.
No one should have more unelected, unaccountable power over society than their single vote allows. No one. Capital beyond material needs and desires is power.
TLDR start with making attempting to bribe an elected official the highest of capital crimes, life no parole as they’re actively attempting to bend all of society to their desires, only public funds for campaigns, continue by rewarding labor with far lower taxation than speculative, insider info laden gambling that should be taxed astronomically as the vice it is, and then have a maximum wealth tax at let’s say a 100 million dollars where they’re declared the winner, given a cake, and congratulations on all additional wealth going into improving the roads and commons of the society that facilitated their accumulation of such astronomical wealth to begin with.
If someone like Elon wants a kingdom, let him fly to Mars and make one.
Herp derp “job creators exercising the noblest of impulses: rational self-interest”
The greatest cultural propaganda the owners achieved through their for profit media and captured education, particularly economics, that enabled all others was that greed/avarice was not the personal failing, character deficit, and destructive force that it is, but instead the highest of virtue.
Its not. The Gordon Geckos, Mr. Potters, and Ebenezer Scrooges in fiction were cautionary tales, villains. Yet they’ve convinced us that that is what we should either be or worship.
For most people if you never had to work a day of your life for you to live a decent life you probably would follow your own interests. And I’m not blaming you for that, but mass wealth isn’t accomplished by everyone going on a journey of selffulfillment. Which economic system works better might I ask you?
It’s not just about different systems. It’s about priorities.
The Nordic model keeps capitalism heavily, heavily straightjacked, to power the wellbeing of society.
Taxes aren’t largely resented, because everyone is educated to understand that when you succeed, the society you’re a part of succeeds. No one fears going to a doctor, higher education is based on academic merit because everyone benefits from an educated populace. When you succeed, you are taxed to a degree that would make our capitalists cry. Yet they are the happiest people’s in the world. And if that isn’t the goal of any society, they’re doing it wrong. We don’t prioritize that at all, only how high our most effective sociopaths can fly.
Here, the tail has been wagging the dog for a long time, the false promise of being “free” to attain society warping levels of wealth has toxified our culture into forgeting that freedom devoid of responsibility is a rampage. Meanwhile everyone else is free to die in the gutter alone for the crime of not making them enough money.
Letting people gain enough wealth to warp society beyond their single vote, and more, not punishing trying to infect our politics with life imprisonment, has destroyed our democracy, it’s all for show. You pick a major party, and I’ll show you a party that’s been bought and paid for by the same people, to the point they’ve made it all perfectly legal since Reagan and especially since Citizens United.
Capitalism belongs in making optional widgets for a reasonable profit it has no place in sectors people need to survive. Those should be socialized, because in those sectors stability is more important than economic growth/metastasis.
If it isn’t enough motivation to have a peak of maybe 2 really big homes and 1 really big boat, then I question that person’s motivations and recognition that they are a member of a society and not society’s owner.
No one should have more unelected, unaccountable power over society than their single vote allows. No one. Capital beyond material needs and desires is power.
TLDR start with making attempting to bribe an elected official the highest of capital crimes, life no parole as they’re actively attempting to bend all of society to their desires, only public funds for campaigns, continue by rewarding labor with far lower taxation than speculative, insider info laden gambling that should be taxed astronomically as the vice it is, and then have a maximum wealth tax at let’s say a 100 million dollars where they’re declared the winner, given a cake, and congratulations on all additional wealth going into improving the roads and commons of the society that facilitated their accumulation of such astronomical wealth to begin with.
If someone like Elon wants a kingdom, let him fly to Mars and make one.