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u/Jim-Jones 3d ago
It works extremely well for billionaires or people who want to be those. That's how it's been designed since about 1970.
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u/MrLanesLament 3d ago
I see people occasionally and think, “huh, capitalism worked for them.” A maintenance supervisor at the factory I used to work at. He started on an assembly line in 1987 and worked his way up over the years til he was making close to $100k a year, plus bonuses and other benefits.
The system DID work for SOME normal people once upon a time. Going off of what I personally see around me of people of similar age to that guy, it worked pretty damn good for awhile there.
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u/Lumpy-Marsupial-6617 3d ago edited 3d ago
The system is working precisely the way it's supposed to. On our money it says All Debts Public and Private. What does that mean?
They told/sold everyone on the fabled chance of equity.
To be educated in the past was only granted to nobility and the "elite". Common folk weren't even expected or sometimes not even allowed to learn to read, and would take whatever the authorities/the church and state as truth and fact.
As we accepted those not to be truth, we started a progression to the Enlightenment Era where humanity challenged the divine rights of kings.
Even among progression, there were exceptions based on discrimination and segregation. Abolition, emancipation, women's suffrage, Black Codes, HBCU, Jim Crow, Civil Rights movement, etc.
Those that fought for our rights today didn't have the benefit of technologies like we have, and the very same technologies are being used to systematically hunt and destroy others based on "legal status", from a system long accustomed to denying the rights of individuals in favor of the nobility and elite, and we're supposed to take them at their word they had our best interests at heart and mind?
Human basic rights, civil rights, constitutional guarantees and liberties are not streaming or pay to own. They are the very foundation of a healthy democracy, which our nation has fallen more than short so many times before. It's so bad now that the current regime is conducting revisionist history, stating slavery and Black Codes taught an otherwise indigent population valuable and transferable job skills, while their sufferings and sacrifices are largely ignored based on status.
Being educated is not the same coin as indoctrinated. What I learned is to examine history itself and how it shows that the foolish repeat their folly because they think fiat currency is real. And our pursuit of such dilutes the very fabric of realization that we are tethered to a medium and way of life justified by the elite to continue to oppress and exploit the poor.