Why are old people so easily seduced by the lies of capitalism?

Yet you failed to indicate how it was wrong which is because you know I am right. Capitalism requires there to be poor people that the middle class step on so the even wealthier can step on the middle. If you take the lower bricks out of a bridge, the whole structure collapses.

Glad your doing so well.. Now if only you could figure out that the party you support was dead against the minimum wage and still dead against any increase to it that would lift working men and women out of poverty.

Do you imagine it is possible that what you think happened under Trump is the real fake news, and that it did not happen at all, or that it might have happened to some virtually insignificant extent, but that Trump fixed it to look like it worked by giving so much money away in tax breaks that it effectively pushed the stock market up ... creating what is the real inflation?

Under cover of helping Americans recover from the economic crisis caused by COVID-19, Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and the GOP engineered a new, $3 trillion giveaway to monopolistic corporations and America’s billionaires, while tossing a few bones to average people.

The Fed got into the act, buying trillions in corporate bonds to artificially inflate the stock market in the months leading up to Trump’s reelection effort.6

To add insult to injury, Trump, McConnell, and the GOP launched a major effort to undo a century of consumer and worker protections by granting corporations “immunity from liability” to make it nearly impossible to sue them or otherwise hold them accountable for fraud, death, or disease.7

Trump also tried to put limits on the media, including social media, and his “enemy of the people” rhetoric led to more than half of Americans losing trust in fact-based news.8 Meanwhile, he succeeded in getting the US military (the National Guard, in this case) to attack people peacefully demonstrating in Lafayette Square in Washington, DC, so that he could have a photo op with a staffer’s Bible.

While the media focused on the photo-op part of his action, his use of the military to trample on First Amendment rights in an American city is far more alarming. Each of these steps moved America deeper into oligarchy and closer to tyranny. Now that this Pandora’s box has been opened, deep structural work is necessary to extract our government from the claws of this nation’s oligarchs.

Yeah, capitalism requires different classes of people... I always find it hilarious how much we talk about increasing minimum wage here but do nothing to protect the jobs we're increasing the wages of. In fact, many of the people who support living wages also directly oppose protecting jobs that provide low skill labor.

If we honestly cared about living wages, we wouldn't be outsourcing to China. But the days when people were upset at Nike for child labor are long gone, now we won't buy their shoes unless they're made with the sweat and blood of children.

You are not filthy rich if you must work for living.

Yes, the middle class is rich, because they exploit every other country that is poor by their standards of living. Without cheap China, the middle class wouldn't be able to afford all the goods they can today.

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You didn't put in the work, you were simply born into privilege. Now you come explain to me why the girl who takes care of her family after her mother died and works a part-time job while still attending college is meant to stay down in the slums all her life while the fat boy who was simply lucky enough to be born into upper middle class gets his college education paid for by his parents and has no worries as he parties his way through college.

College is just what gets you the interview after all, with how rampant the cheating is these days and the lack of real world use for the information being provided (you learn more on the job than you do in college.) Kid with the right parents can be however the hell lazy as he wants, just has to look presentable and act mature.

Entitled brats who want everything handed to them and are too stupid to realize that socialism and communism screws everyone over except the wealthy elites