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If you can't make the point now, when can you make it? Once the pandemic is under control, no one will care. The bottom line would appear to be that capitalism
by zelienople 7y ago
If you can't make the point now, when can you make it? Once the pandemic is under control, no one will care.
The bottom line would appear to be that capitalism is, by far, the best system we have, but only when it operates inside a walled garden.
We should impose tariffs on essential items so as to allow local employees to be paid a fair and living wage, put restrictions on the multiple between the lowest wage in a company and the highest, limit growth to preserve the competitiveness of markets, and ensure that the true cost of production, including the environmental damage associated with production, distribution, and disposal is accounted for locally.
Imagine if this small business was allowed to charge a fair price for their product without competition from a totalitarian state that has bred 1.6 billion slave workers to exploit the planet and conduct a covert economic war to undermine democratic free-market countries.
Imagine if the earnings of every CEO were capped at 3x the lowest wage on the factory floor. Imagine people having stable jobs that fulfill a genuine need while producing something in a sustainable and environmentally-responsible fashion. Imagine that those hard workers get health care and generous vacations and a living wage.
Is it so ridiculous to dream of limited capitalism? Sane capitalism?