Part of me agrees with you. The other part of me knows how well capitalism can pivot so much quicker than laws can be made to curtail the bad practices, that the system seems to be the issue. Maybe the government is the issue too, but it’s a lot of bad faith companies that ruins the bunch. Forward thinking and progressive thinking with quick measured action could do it, but most people who are elected aren’t capable of that or are too compromised to make anything work.
Absolutely not. There more than enough lobbying and corruption in our all-so-democratic EU, just most of the population denying it based on “look how much worse the US is”
which is why we need anti piss-in-lemonade laws and limits on how much water there can be for a given number of lemons.
we don’t need to remove capitalism, instead we can restrain it from harming people
Part of me agrees with you. The other part of me knows how well capitalism can pivot so much quicker than laws can be made to curtail the bad practices, that the system seems to be the issue. Maybe the government is the issue too, but it’s a lot of bad faith companies that ruins the bunch. Forward thinking and progressive thinking with quick measured action could do it, but most people who are elected aren’t capable of that or are too compromised to make anything work.
Regulation could keep capitalism in check.
In reality capitalists use their money to make and change laws through lobbyists or bribes, and by propaganda through owning all media.
Couldnt that be made illegal too?
It could but it’s hard with the capitalism power dynamics in place.
Not in reality, but in the US. Lobbying is called corruption elsewhere and is a crime. Don’t put this shit on capitalism, it’s a US only problem.
We have all of that in the EU too. The US is just a few years ahead.
Absolutely not. There more than enough lobbying and corruption in our all-so-democratic EU, just most of the population denying it based on “look how much worse the US is”
That’s what we’ve been telling ourselves for almost 200 years, and yet we are as we are…
I wanna be able to have private property though. I want that and laws that regulate corperations
btw, actually good things have happened in the last 200 years too, along with bad ones
Do you want a house to live on (Personal Property) or a house for which you charge rent (Private Property)?
Many of those good things were “in spite of”, not “because of” the system.
There are no laws against piss in the lemonade. Check FDA for more details https://www.fda.gov/food/current-good-manufacturing-practices-cgmps-food-and-dietary-supplements/food-defect-levels-handbook and look for the term “Mammalian excreta”, which means both piss and shit.
Yes, your food can be full of shit and piss and it is full of shit and piss. Enjoy the rest of your day!
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