>We don't talk about the real solution because none of the person that want to "take more from the rich and give more to the poor" proposes one. That's just a

>We don't talk about the real solution because none of the person that want to "take more from the rich and give more to the poor" proposes one. That's just a lie. I could reel off about 20 or 30, many of which were the centerpiece of a presidential campaign. * Raise minimum wage. * Implement 100% LVT. * Water down intellectual property laws. * Water down laws that attack unions (e.g. 'right' to work). * Strengthen laws that allow unions to organize. * Remove carried interest rule. * Implement a job guarantee. * Make trade deals with other countries contingent on ^^^ this stuff happening in those countries too. Unfortunately, left economists who can make a case for policies like this are consistently shouted down by the 'respectable' economists who predict austerity will cause growth 7 years in a row (any day now!) and catastrophic job losses will be the only result of raising the minimum wage. Those who make being usefully wrong a profession, in other words. >Courtesy of being born in a Communist country, I had to learn Karl Marx and such in middle school. And almost every single statement on this comment chain reads like my term exam questions (I'm not being facetious here). He has a whole chapter on general formula of capital, and another one on rent seeking behavior. It's all good idea ... until you actually try to implement it and the resulting government is nuts. 98% of his writings were a critique of capitalism. He didn't provide a detailed description of how to implement anything. Of course, some dictators used his writings as a pretext to seize power and implement fairly bog standard authoritarian regimes and guilt by association works wonders on the feeble minded, so there's that