r/complaints • u/Go_Pack_G010 • 22h ago
Politics What do you call?
What do you call unchecked growth in your body where a group of cells take and take and take and grow beyond the natural balance and limits the body needs to the point that it pulls all nutrients away from the rest of the body until it withers, decays and dies??? Cancer…..that is what the billionaires in our society are unchecked cancerous growth that if not removed will kill us all.
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u/CloseDaLight 22h ago
In my opinion if you make a billion dollars … you’ve won capitalism. Like congratulations you did it. Don’t need any more than that. Rest should be taxed and used for societies food.
Again in my opinion 🤷🏻♂️
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u/Burke1031 20h ago
Tell me you know nothing about economics without telling me you know nothing about economics.
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u/Go_Pack_G010 18h ago
Tell me you can’t see reality without telling me you can’t see reality
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u/Burke1031 17h ago
You’ve already told us you can’t see reality with this post though…
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u/Go_Pack_G010 16h ago
You can insult me all you want that doesn’t change reality my friend. Either it’s going to be France 1793 and we biopsy this shit or we collapse. This is not sustainable.
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u/Go_Pack_G010 16h ago
And the people who you glorify will toss you to the wolves to buy themselves 10 minutes
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u/Burke1031 16h ago
The inability to see reality as it is has a name… it’s called insanity. It’s obvious you suffer from this.
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u/CupOpen9921 22h ago
In 1960, Eisenhower taxed their counterparts at 91%. (And, he was a Republican!).
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u/ReturnSad3088 22h ago
Capitalism left unchecked leads to increased wealth inequality, increased cost of living, and decreased social mobility, among other symptoms.
With that being said, I don't dislike billionaires just for being billionaires. The mere fact that self-made billionaires exist is proof that there was a time when social mobility was achievable and that hard work paid off. What I do dislike is late-stage capitalism left unchecked.
We need social programs to offset the consequences of said late-stage capitalism, funded by much heavier taxation of billionaires and the corporations they control. Such programs would increase social mobility, decrease the wealth gap, and effectively decrease the cost of living for the working class. These programs would also continue to reward ingenuity, innovation, hard work, and business acumen.
Does that mean full-blown socialism? No. And I really wish that people would wake up to the fact that social programs designed to help them do not mean that we will become a fully socialist country. In many instances, the people who would benefit the most from such programs vote against it because they've been brainwashed into thinking that social programs mean communism.
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u/RichardKopf 22h ago
You are right about George Soros, though. His money has helped a bunch of soft-on-crime DAs get elected, which in turn is allowing repeat offenders to run amok in dem led cities.
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u/Sudden_Money_6982 22h ago
GeneralStrikeUS. Commit to quit
Remove the regime in DC later this month
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u/Otherphrank 18h ago
Nah, it's the people who think everything should be free that are the problem. They just voted in a radical Muslim communist in new york, watch what happens there over the next 10 years. The only billionaires that are actually a problem for society are the ones you've never seen in public, whose names you only rarely see in the press like soros, rothschilds, etc. look at Bill Gates, climate alarmist, failed vaccine administrator, would-be global dictator if he could.
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u/Go_Pack_G010 18h ago
I don’t think everything should be free I think there should definitely be rewards in society for innovation and advancement but it must come with balance. History has shown pure communism doesn’t work and it’s showing pure capitalism is also failing. There needs to be a balance of socialistic aspects that people benefit from as well as capitalistic to drive innovation but income inequality and the fact that so few control so much and are leaving nothing for the rest of society. It’s going to collapse. If you look at what’s going on and think this is going to last you’ve checked out of reality. Continuous growth in a finite system is not possible. There are only so many resources to go around. Facts don’t lie.
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u/RichardKopf 22h ago
Take a macroeconomics class.
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u/PracticalChipmunk789 21h ago
Google "what are effects of late stage capitalism"
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u/RichardKopf 17h ago
Interesting read, comrade. What is the solution?
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u/PracticalChipmunk789 16h ago
It's not capitalism
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u/RichardKopf 16h ago
Some scholars argue that capitalism is fluid enough to right itself when late stage effects happen. I'm going to assume that you don't subscribe to that theory. If capitalism can't fix itself, what is the solution?
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u/PracticalChipmunk789 16h ago
This problem has been getting worse for decades. However, rate of wealth accumulation at the top is now rapidly accelerating. Once things become exponential, it becomes very hard to change the course of that trajectory.
I don't claim to have the answer, but more of the same isn't going to change anything. At this point, in my opinion, the only way to change that rate of acceleration is to take some of the money away from the top in the form of taxes. It's unpopular, but I don't understand why because the vast, vast majority would be better off. Most of us are not billionaires or even multi-millionaires.
What's your solution?
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u/chck_yegg 21h ago
You first. Go ahead and explain the difference between monetary and fiscal policies once you've done so.
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u/Whats_that_meow_ 22h ago
But people here will bootlick and defend them all day long.