Predatory Capitalism

[CrimsonRuss]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkm2Vfj42FY

Political Economist, Mark Blyth, lengthy but brilliant! How do we as Americans stand together an reverse this very troublesome trend?

 

[NationalTitles18]

To be honest, no time to spend 1.5 hours watching. That said, crony capitalism is the problem, IMHO.

 

[NationalTitles18]

is that the same link that was taken down before? Seriously asking. If so, you better put the brakes on before you get shown the door. (not a mod, just offering advice)

 

[CrimsonRuss]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tD5vJrFsGVI

Shorter version from Mark Blyth, 22 mins long.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

I don't even have to watch it to tell you Capitalism, Communism, Socialism etc. aren't the problem. The problem is the greed of "man" and the unquenchable thirst for power that goes along with it.

 

[92tide]

I don't even have to watch it to tell you Capitalism, Communism, Socialism etc. aren't the problem. The problem is the greed of "man" and the unquenchable thirst for power that goes along with it.

 

[CajunCrimson]

Pipe Dreams.....
Wishful thinking......
Idealism......
Utopian Desires.....

Always lose to the guy with the gun.....

 

[CrimsonRuss]

Pipe Dreams.....
Wishful thinking......
Idealism......
Utopian Desires.....

Always lose to the guy with the gun.....

Maybe that's what we need. Enough people with guns who demand a change?

 

[NationalTitles18]

Maybe that's what we need. Enough people with guns who demand a change?

 

[NationalTitles18]

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not...

 

[NationalTitles18]

https://reason.com/archives/2016/12/14/the-defenseless-american-corporation

According to their critics on the left and the populist right, American corporations are soulless psychopaths that grind up the environment, defenseless consumers, their own employees and even flop-eared puppies in their relentless pursuit of ever-greater profits for the greedy 1 percent.

f corporations truly were the malignant oppressors they are made out to be in nine out of 10 Hollywood movies, then your break-room vending machine would be filled with tofu sticks and carrot juice. But it isn't, for the simple reason that the brief against corporate America has it largely backward: You are not at the mercy of corporations. Corporations are at the mercy of you.

Granted, corporations do have one tool—one very powerful tool—at their disposal, to make you buy things you don't want to buy: government. Ford Motor Co. can't put a gun to your head and make you drive a Ford instead of a Nissan. (Not without painful consequences, anyway—see Wells Fargo.) But the government can impose tariffs that raise the price of a Nissan so high you will go with a Ford instead. (A certain U.S. politician who recently won election to high office thinks this is a swell way to conduct American commerce.) Government can force you to buy health insurance, as Obamacare does through the individual mandate. And the government can outright ban the purchase of certain consumer goods, much as the FDA banned the diet supplement ephedra in 2004.

 

[OreBama]

The strong always prey on the weak. It happens in the wild and it happens in our "civil" society. It seems to be ingrained in many creatures that inhabit this Earth. I don't think it's good or bad; it is just what happens. The best we can do is not to be easy targets.

 

[CrimsonRuss]

http://elementarygenocide.com/12-major-corporations-benefiting-from-the-prison-industrial-complex/

This was an eye opener, never knew corporations were insourcing this kinda cheap labor. In Texas they don't even pay the prisoners for their labor an punish them if they chose not to be used for slave labor.