are you fucking kidding? have you been following the democratic candidates at all?
I think he responded like that because you quoted my post and then made up an argument I didn't make.
The way big business operates is a huge issue, did you see how much money Facebook paid in taxes? less then a middle class family, that's not fair, that's downright fucking immoral and unethical. Fairness is all that is needed, that's it.
Is is fair that a CEO earns a hundred times other employee's? is the fact that people like martine shkreli can buy a drug for a rare disease (thus a monopoly) and increase the price 3500% overnight? on the basis that comparitively so, other life saving treatments like aids medication can cost 100k, thus because it is a life saving treatment there is equity in it's effect. Sure that's good economic thinking, but is it ethical? fuck no, the system allows this, it's broke obviously.
If everyone is a community needed water and you inherited a fortune and could thus buy the lake and sell it to people. That's fucked up? it happens, the rights of those unable to purchase such things, due to circumstance, geography, age (a child) etc are usurped, because of money. That's capitalism, once you tie it to human needs, it will eventually cause what we are seeing now. The lake shouldn't be for sale, it's priceless and in reality tied to no man.
Human psychology is important as well, if you were lucky enough to be born into the a wealthy banker family, would you look to increase your gains or pull others up aka help someone. Most people are greedy by nature, altruism is fleeting, they will store the money away in offshore accounts, they can't possibly spend it. Money doesn't increase happiness (a well known fact) to a certain point, they have excess and store excess while others starve. Let that sink in, there are people dying from circumstance, living breathing humans suffering on a level we can't fathom, while a rich person has 10 billion stowed away, evading taxes, which is unfair and in turn could help those in actual need.
I understand there are people who would take advantage, I think people being lazy and taking advantage of minimal benefits (a shit home, little income) is much better then rich people taking advantage of everyone, is it not? A crackhead isn't causing issues of significant magnitude, the koch brothers are, they are raping the earth, do you not see the egregious violations of regulations at every turn? they are avoid penalty due to money, that's capitalism, what is ethical or fair about that? why would anyone support something like that? it's un-human, fuck a country, it's in direct contravention to humanity.
With money first and humans second, we will continue to spiral to our doom, it's only common sense , one painfully obvious.
Think Big Picture, what if you could start over? would you do things differently? if so, things probably need a change.
