Court orders tax payers on the hook for criminal administration.

Oh don’t get me wrong. Even though I live in a fascist nation my life is not bad. I just bought a house, I have a stable job. I have a big family I get to hang out with everyday.

I have a job for the first time in thirty years I can afford to insure my family with. A lot of my contemporaries are not so lucky though.

I think it is good just to point it out. It helps to keep me thinking straight and not feel gaslight by my government when it makes policy decisions to benefit the wealthy.

The fact that corporations are the dominate social structure is undisputable. Everything, including notions of democracy, is secondary to this. Whenever there is a conflict between wealth and the general populace the government will always side with money due to corruption.

This is pretty universal across all nations. There is not a democracy that does not suffer from this problem. At this point it really does feel that democracy in most forms is just a window dressing for corportocracy.

Anyone has a fair shot at being a wage slave

People who defended capitalism at this point in time are in constant denial. Capitalism only works well for everyone in highly competitive new fields/markets.

Once the monopoly sets in it no longer serves a useful function to the rest of society but does enrich a minority.

An awful lot of capitalistic practice is rent seeking nowadays. It doesn’t add any value and instead creates it out of thin air.

There has never been an effective small businesses capitalism economy that every capitalists uses to justify capitalism. It always ends up as game of monopoly.

As it has gotten worse my whole life. Adam Smith could have never have conceptualized mega corporations. In fact, corporate law at that time would have never allowed for them to exist.

People hate socialism because they are propagandized to full stop. Most people will never own actual capital so why would they be afraid of not being able to privately control it. This conflates the idea of private ownership and ownership of capital. This in itself is also propaganda.

Thatcher’s actual policies hurt working class and benefited corporations. Strange people would bring her up in a conversation meant to portray socialism negatively.

On to your points. Rent seeking existed long before the term ever existed just like fascism. It has always been bad, think of company towns back in 1800’s being the very definition of extreme rent seeking behavior. I had thought we were done with that concept but the unbelievable concentration of wealth has brought it back.

There is no one to reign it in because the systems are completely captured by the wealthy through their proxy corporations. Fascism spread like wildfire across the globe and the dominate social structure is now corporations, not governments.

There is no answer to this because all the answers threaten this dominance. We have (non wealthy people) been checkmated before I was ever born.

But hey, life is not so bad. You can always take advantage of your fellow man to get a leg up and it is highly encouraged by a legal system that is designed to protect the wealthy and not punish white collar crime.

Oh yes the myth of the small business capitalism. The reality is there was once thousands of car manufacturers in the US and now there is maybe fifty with a big three making the vast majority.

Same goes for about every sector there is in every country. The ideal of a capitalist society that uses great restraint is just a fantasy. Concentration of wealth and the wealth gap is high in every single country in the world.

There is no real example of capitalism effectively addressing wealthy inequality or creating a small business form a capitalism for any significant length of time before it starts concentrating. It may start out with small businesses, but monopolies quickly develop.

You may ask why is it bad to have wealthy people. The problem is representation. All nations policies almost always exclusively favor those with capital. They get unequal representation.

One only has to look at the mega corporations to see the concentration and do a policy review to see the majority of laws passed directly benefit them.

I would like to see a country actually implement what you say to prevent concentration of wealth. It probably will never happen though.

This is a great perspective and it always helps me with gloom and doom. There are billions of people infinitely better off than twenty years ago in regards to access to food, electricity, and clean water.

You don’t need to wonder what will happen as China has already embraced fascism. Once wealthy individuals and their corporations gather enough power China will be no different than the rest of the world. I would love for them to prove me wrong.

Capitalism always results in the same outcome and China is no different. Such is life.

Replace sea with money and you are pretty accurate. It is all about the money and Trump is famous for taking a whole lot of Russian money

A socialist society where everyone is more or less equal. Yeah, Musk and his company of wannabe trillionaires are going to fight that to their last breath.

China produced more billionaires than the US this year.

Fascism is corporatism. Corporatism’s final evolution through corruption is a corportocracy.

Did you wonder why Antifa was so against the World Trade Organization’s negotiations, where a bunch of corporations were deciding the laws of all the nations.

I know this is an unpopular opinion, but the whole world is pretty much fascist at this point.

Interesting, thanks for the information and the links.

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Falsewhite is just an angry loser with alt accounts

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I said the easiest way to end the war is to give Ukraine nukes. Your reading comprehension is dismal.

You already decided there are no answers. You gave up with your only solution as a conventional arms race. You solution is stupid and will lead to more death. That is because you are a warmonger.

If you think Trump seriously tried diplomacy your even dumber than I thought. The world must be really confusing when you believe such nonsense.

The US could end this war in a heartbeat, why won’t it. Why does Europe keep buying oil from Russia if they are so bad. You see, you don’t have these answers because you are apparently incapable of critical thought.

Go rattle your saber somewhere else chicken hawk.

So no nukes for Ukraine!? I guess there is just no pleasing you. We can’t fix it diplomatically, we can’t fix it economically.

I guess the default solution is to let a bunch of innocents die and slowly bleed the criminal state that is Russia.

Trump tried diplomacy!? You must really have your head far up where the sun don’t shine to believe that.

I said you were a warmonger, you haven’t convinced me you are not. Until you do your opinion as a chickenshit saber rattler does not matter to me.

You desperately want someone to solve all your problems don’t you. You sure you don’t want to go live in Russia so daddy Putin can make all your decisions for you?

Let’s all sell some more bombs to Ukraine while we continue sending money to Russia seems to be the European stance. The US is just straight fascists backing Russia while selling arms to the Ukraine. The most powerful military in the world in check.

So the solution is to build up armies again so we can go to war err I mean create mutually assured destruction? That is the best you can do. Pathetic.

The quickest way to end this is just to give Ukraine some nukes no? I thought mutually assured destruction is the way to go!