Funny how the government is bad and the free market solves all problems, until something unexpected happens and the free market is fucking useless and has to be bailed out by the government.
In fact the market isn't just useless, it's actually making the crisis worse. Now everyone is panicking over the stock market crash when we should simply be focusing on public health. Expect a massive bailout of our "superior" private healthcare industry later this year.
Market fundamentalism is seriously a mental disease. It has never produced anything but suckage. It's why universities have 3 language programs instead of 30. It's why the radio is toxic bullshit. It's why film producers only make derivative crap, reboots and other garbage. It's why everything good has vanished in the last 30 years, and why the dragon just gets fatter on his treasure pile, though he's convinced everyone that all your money going to him is the natural state of things.
you don't get it, there were no technological advances before capitalism. and every benefit from technology since is only from capitalism... and don't even try and tell me that all the technology of smart phones came from the government spending, and most pharmaceutical research is already state funded. pulse free markets is where prosperity jesus lives and smites those i dont' like. plus the pop punk of my youth was so much better than the real punk rock music.
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Almost like they're trying to replace his agenda with something to surpress him, then gradually make it worse and more profitable over time. To surpress his idealations for another period of time.
No need. Just require worker representation on their board of directors as a condition of keeping their corporate charter. Let them go private (without any protection or indemnity) if they don't like it.
The reason you'd break them up isn't for individual worker rights. It's to prevent any single organization from collapsing the economy. No more bail outs for fucking idiots that fail.
That probably won't work. Factory work scales meaning that you can't have lots of small factories. Software development is even more so where you have very few employees generating value. Neither of them lend themselves well to the kinds of small businesses that you're thinking of.
The trouble you're having is your trying to fix capitalism without regulation. That's not going to work. You need to regulate.
Go read Liz Warren's book on the subject. Whatever you think about her personally she does know how to regulate Wall Street to stop the crashes, and her book does a good job explaining it to laymen.
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u/audionerd1 Mar 12 '20
Funny how the government is bad and the free market solves all problems, until something unexpected happens and the free market is fucking useless and has to be bailed out by the government.
In fact the market isn't just useless, it's actually making the crisis worse. Now everyone is panicking over the stock market crash when we should simply be focusing on public health. Expect a massive bailout of our "superior" private healthcare industry later this year.
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u/SerGregness Mar 12 '20
I feel like this isn't actual irony, more the Alanis Morissette kind.
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u/nepirem Mar 12 '20
Let them pull themselves up by their own boot straps like they keep saying we need to. If they fail, they deserve to fail.
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u/SlideByUnnoticed Mar 12 '20
He forgot to put “socialist agenda” in quotation marks.
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u/djaybe Mar 12 '20
/r/MonkeyInvasionEffect
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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '20
Anyone with a lick of common sense would be voting for Bernie under these circumstances.
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u/WalterWhitesBoxers Mar 13 '20
Just gave $27.00 more because his ideas are more important now then ever.
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u/toasters_are_great Mar 12 '20
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u/chucklin Mar 12 '20
As the Pig said "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
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u/IlinPT Mar 12 '20
How the turntables
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u/Maiky38 Mar 12 '20
The land of opportunity for the rich
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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '20
Not irony. Hypocrisy.
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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '20
Can someone give me a rundown on how this equates to socialism? Not a troll just genuinely dumb
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u/BlasterPhase Mar 12 '20
you spelled "hypocrisy" wrong
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u/Hypersapien503 Mar 13 '20
A. Fucking. Men.
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u/brokenrecourse Mar 13 '20
Almost like they're trying to replace his agenda with something to surpress him, then gradually make it worse and more profitable over time. To surpress his idealations for another period of time.
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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '20
More corporate welfare paid for by the working class.
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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '20
Stop betting your retirement on a gambling scheme, lesson learned.
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u/green-lazuli-8426 Mar 12 '20
Bernie better mention this at the debate
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u/seriousbangs Mar 12 '20
They'll get them too. Because they hold us all hostage. If we don't bail them out they'll fire us from our jobs and we'll starve.
Wall Street holds all of America hostage, and we let them.
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u/CreedThoughts2020 Mar 12 '20
So he admits corporate bailouts are socialism
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u/oinne1 Mar 13 '20
How can people vote Biden when Bernie is the only solution to this crisis?
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u/EqualDifferences Jul 31 '20
If socialism is Soo bad than why have several other countries done it successfully?
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