“Anarchy4Everyone”: 50 Eye-Opening And Relatable Posts From People Who Are So Over Capitalism

Agreed! I never thought of this before and seeing it now it just sounds so freaking simple of a solution.

I agree! It makes me so sad to see that there is more than enough for everyone. But some who could really make a big difference are deliberately (!) holding back resources. A German comedian once put it simply: "We don't have a resource problem, we have a distribution (sharing) problem."

Do you think the money is sitting around in a vault somewhere?

No it wouldn't, self employed people's tax returns don't show this income, they usually show a loss. There would still be off shore accounts as well. To make things fair we should abolish all current tax rates and put a federal sales tax of 25%. It would make rich people and fake beggars pay. It's also less than what most W2 workers are paying with all of our taxes

Not really, much wealth of the super rich is not cash in bank accounts but value of properties or companies. If you have say £10m cash in the bank but your property portfolio goes up by £20m, what are you going to do, seize a property or company? It will be taxed for capital gains when sold anyway, and company value may decrease again. Plus if it was seized it would likely end up sold below market rate to liquidate it. Governments have the means to fix a lot of what you listed, they just spend poorly - the answer would be abolish taxes and condition people to contribute a similar amount to social funds which could be spent without the corruption and partisanship.

Sad truth is: if society as a whole thinks theses things are worth doing they will be done, if the majority of people however don't see those things as something important there is absolutely nothing you can do to make that happen. No rule will help because the rule will simply be broken as nobody cares. Well established infrastructure that runs smooth invite corruption as there is no pressure to be competent for things to work. The system will keep working for decades, and people got lazy, so it has to get really really very bad again before they relearn to put in an effort and fix the things they allowed to collapse by their disinterest. That's the cycle of history that repeats endless.

yeah. what do you need to do with 999 million? hoard it till u die?

One of my English professors never required books. He always made sure to get us a free copy of whatever he wanted us to read

This is hilarious. So clever of him.

Also in the US. I wholeheartedly agree. Adequate mental health care would also go a long way.

They'd all yell "SOSHLIZM!!!!!"

Same.

Not so. All the higher wages thing did was make cost of everything balloon so the status quo would be maintained. If you want true, quality of life improvement in this country, you have to keep climbing and working to get higher-paying jobs. Otherwise everything just keeps inflating so fktards can keep their insane profit margins. :-/

Yeah, and really, even if they weren't that well executed we would still be better off than now....

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There is no such thing as FREE. Someone has to pay for it. Not the government, they don't have any money. The money belongs to the people who pay taxes.

I also agree that people need to stop ganging up on the police. There are 3 people in my immediate family who or were police officers and they’re all good people.

ACAB

Now imagine yourself like 100 years ago in the past........ are the guys in uniform the good guys or bad guys?

They wouldn’t be able to accumulate billions in hidden assets otherwise 😱

I was born in 1957. My brother, my sister and I all agreed recently that Jan 20th, 1981 was the death knell of history's greatest middle class built on unions and Main St small family businesses. Republicans of the post war era were reasonable and downright "Libtards" by today's standards. He busted up the ATC union, shut down psych wards and lowered corp taxes and called it 'trickle down'. Deregged Wall St, OSHA, many more.

You're dead right. Our long slide into grotesque financial disparity started the minute that incompetent clown was sworn in.

it was when Reagan was in office. They saw the money being held by the religious right and went right after it. Republicans used to be pro enviroment and had many of the qualities people see in the democrat party today.

I don't think stereotypes, about republicans or anyone else, are appropriate. What next a rant about Blacks do this and Jews do that, and gays do whatever.

Wow! Those are two equally ignorant and overgeneralized statements.

Off themselves or cheat and sneak back to one if their mansions or penthouses.

No they wouldn't. My family coming from such a country, once you've been on the death list because you're seen as not social enough you are cured for life from that stuff. Hardly anybody who lived in a socialist country will tell you it's was good. It always takes the balance, both have the same potential for evil and destruction if not balanced out with the other. Capitalism worked just fine until it got extreme again and not even the 1% but 1% of the 1% started getting insanely rich - backed by politicians who by the way were voted for by the people. And socialism just worked fine until some nutjobs who also were supported by the people turned into a nightmare that killed anybody who was seen as not equal. So just stop with the socialism is so much better. It isn't. But capitalism with socialist influence can work really great and that's what we should aim for.