(June 5, 2013 at 10:30 am)dazzn Wrote: Capitalism works since it allocates resources efficiently. if there are poor, meh, there always have been poor. at least today, the poor can better themselves if they choose. tell poor commoners in 1350 if they ever had a chance to better their economic lot.
Tell that to the slave labor building the toys you like in China...or the dead in Bangladesh. What capitalism does is oppress in the name of efficiency and the beneficiary is always some rich motherfucker who is greedy enough to want to be richer.
Meanwhile...
http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?...xZpbHq%2Bz
Quote:Describing the United States as an "advanced Third World country," longtime consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader calls for a new mass movement to challenge the power corporations have in Washington. "It is not too extreme to call our system of government now 'American fascism.' It's the control of government by big business, which Franklin Delano Roosevelt defined in 1938 as fascism," Nader says. "We have the lowest minimum wage in the Western world. We have the greatest amount of consumer debt. We have the highest child poverty, the highest adult poverty, huge underemployment, a crumbling public works — but huge multi-billionaires and hugely profitable corporations. I say to the American people: What's your breaking point? When are you going to stop making excuses for yourself?
