Capitalism Actually Sucks?
The Privatization Of Everything | how America sold itself out
youtube.comEconomic logic - seeing the world only through the lens of capital
lots of different threads so just going to say this here: mvmts need weapons, hours, resources to succeed. oppressive systems tend to deny these to the bottom and hoard them at the top. this is the strategic basis for coalition, which you cannot moralize yourself out of.
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Rich kids should go to public schools. The mayor should ride the subway to work. When wealthy people get sick, they should be sent to public hospitals. Business executives should have to stand in the same airport security lines as everyone else. The very fact that people want to buy their way out of all of these experiences points to the reason why... See more
Jason Kottke • Our Unpleasant Privatized Reality
The criticism of the rich is not rooted in people being successful enough to become wealthy, but a system that allows people to build massive fortunes based on exploitation—and using that power to consolidate power that prevents them from ever facing any consequences for such abuses.