Don’t blame capitalism, blame the people who abuse an under-developed social system.
Capitalism isn’t the problem. Communism isn’t the problem. People are the problem. The system of government is merely an ineffective solution, but any other solution won’t be a magic pill unless it addresses the people problem.
I did not describe capitalism at all. I misspoke in my second paragraph, it’s a socioeconomic system, since it feeds into how the entire society functions, not just transactions.
They don’t use the mechanisms, they exploit them. Capitalism is at its core about simple value exchange: it takes x man hours to extract a material, y man hours to process them and z man hours to build a product from them. The cost if the good should be (x + y + z) multiplied by a reasonable profit.
Instead, we have businesses paying significantly less than the time cost for the work, while charging significantly more. This abuse and exploitation is the root of the problem that people blame on capitalism - but capitalism isn’t the cause of the problem, the cause is the people who exploit.
Similarly, with communism everything is supposed to be fairly distributed. However abusive people exploit the system by establishing themselves as the ones who decide how things should be distributed, and violently silence anyone who disagrees.
Any alternative system must focus on the people problem in order to be an effective solution, not the perceived problem with current systems.
(Totally unrelated, but I keep seeing you around and I’m curious about why you sign your name. Is your account shared? Feel free to ignore if you don’t want to answer Im just curious)
TL;DR for anyone else in the thread: multiple people share an account and sign who’s typing at the moment. The reason they share an account is that they share a brain.
The attorneys for the state asking, “Did anyone from the state tell you you can’t get an abortion” are full of shit. We don’t consult the AG or the police on every move. We generally are aware of the law and the consequences of breaking it and make a decision. We don’t seek input on everything. That’s what laws do. To argue that it’s the doctor’s fault for delaying care, and not the law, flies in the face of how law works in the USA.
So many other tragic and stupid quotes in the article, but I’ll stop there for now.
Then they both shot each other and their kinds in error. FoxNews we know your bullshit games. Can all Fox News stories have a warning that it is Nazi propaganda.
The article doesn’t live up to the headline. Yes, they’ve become hotbeds for anger and chaos, but how? What’s getting these people so riled up about these perceived issues that they’re disrupting school board meetings and attacking board members and other parents?
Political Action Groups hire people as agents through churches. Then those agents cause trouble. Moms for Liberty is a great example.
Sign up for a shitty Florida church then attend their sermons online. You’ll hear some symbolic bs or code they use to get people to unwittingly join them. Maybe you will even get lucky and hear the church chant out a reportable crime.
Online propaganda. In one of the world news communities yesterday, there was a post about the UK forcing teachers to disclose to parents if their child mentions anything about gender identity in schools. Several users went off on rants about how schools indoctrinate children and blah blah blah and this is the same garbage mindset that they bring to their local school board meetings. We’ve got too many dumb people with strong opinions roaming around now.
Good. Gun “control” is an ineffective bandaid solution for large societal problems that politicians refuse to tackle because it’ll hurt their doners pocket this quarter.
Oh sure, it’s ineffective in Iceland, France, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Canada, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Poland, Romania, The UK, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, Vietnam, New Zealand, and a hundred other countries around the world.
The amount of guns per 100 people in the US is 120 and the next highest is Yemen at 49. This isn’t a cultural issue, it’s a gun control issue.
No other country in the world has nearly the same number of guns in its borders.
If it was the guns, and not socioeconomic conditions as described in the post above, why does Mexico and 53(!!) other countries have a higher murder rate than the US?
Notice how many of the countries you describe have more than two political parties, universal healthcare, and aren’t the world’s superpower.
Violence largely happens due to stress, stress comes from poor living conditions, financial constraints and cultural issues(and more). Considering more than half of Americans are paycheck to paycheck, that we have to pay hundreds for medical care and that the average income is somewhere in the 40k range it’s pretty easy to see why so many people are mentally ill, violent and politically extreme.
On top of this you also have the hard to quantify issue of foreign powers attempting to influence, degrade, or propagand to the citizens of world’s main power which is another issue that adds an additional layer.
You need to understand the reasons for unreasonable actions to actually prevent them. Attack the source causes and not throw out a core part of the American identity because our shit ass politicians can’t be assed to think beyond the next election cycle.
This guy gets it. Gun Control has only been passed in this country in response to minority gun ownership. They have been poorly conceived at make no sense from the get go. It is near impossible to control inexpensive technologies and banning those technologies is a waste of time. We talk about gun violence but that’s the wrong conversation. We should be talking about violence and why that occurs. The gun is just a multiplier of violence not the actual problem.
Guns just as or much more dangerous were readily available by mail order in the 70’s and back so why weren’t these problems more profound then? For one at the end of the 70’s we did away with our entire mental health system and never replaced it. People seeking mental healthcare have few options in this country even with insurance as insurers have figured out if the neglect there provider lists then they pay less overall with zero ramifications and little to no loss in sales from large employer plans (who don’t prioritize the issue).
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<span style="color:#323232;">Mental Health education and health education overall is severely lacking in this country most people don't know the signs to identify a mental health problem or how to handle it even professionals did you know that males most commonly display signs of schizophrenia at 18 but women most often start to display signs at 27?
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">Poverty and Economic disparity though likely play the largest role. This country is quickly devolving due to rampant poverty and resources are flooding to the top with no stop in sight. I really tie both economic poverty and lack of access to reasonable education as both impact the country in relatively the same way. The major contributing factors are market monopolies, regulatory capture, over representation of corporations in our electoral system, and a broken electoral system. I won't go through all of these and there are absolutely more.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">The good news is that the two things that would do the most to alleviate these things are possible. A move to ranked choice voting and a push for a single payer system for healthcare. The path may seem indirect but a ranked choice system would resolve the all or nothingness of our system and make it harder for corporations to fully corrupt our electoral process as they would need to do far more than simply push for a single side. a single payer system would eliminate insurers that have an incentive to avoid paying for mental healthcare and sever health and well-being as a reason to be a wage slave.
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I used to be a proponent of the death penalty. Someone shoots up a school or is a serial rapist, they forfeit their right to live and are beyond rehabilitation
But the book “The Chamber” by John Grisham completely changed my mind. One of the only books to ever make me cry, I realized what an awful responsibility the state has when deciding what to do with the worst of the worst. It’s so easy to lean into retribution but I decided that day I don’t want to support legally sanctioned murder. I’d rather my tax dollars go into keeping prisoners alive than for them to be spent on taking lives for no other reason than blood lust.
Then of course you start digging into all the problems with criminal justice; innocent prisoners, corruption, racism… it’s wildly irresponsible to trust any justice system to be so infallible as to decide who lives and dies.
The legislative branch determines court jurisdiction. They could say that the DC Circuit will be the court of final appeal for any rules involving the supreme court
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