pointlesslypointing:

argumate:

pointlesslypointing:

argumate:

I think a lot of critiques of capitalism are really critiques of urbanisation, globalisation, and mass media.

• Corporate lobbyists
• Bribed officials
• Gentrification
• Exploitation of the workers
• Manufactured distrust of working people/immigrants
• A preposterously small number of people having the same amount of wealth as everyone else combined
• Education being incredibly expensive and not being useful proportionate to said cost, resulting in either debt or uneducated people who vote against their own interests
• Redlining

Etc.

some of these make sense, eg. exploitation of the workers, not that feudal peasants weren’t exploited but it did have a different tone.

but manufactured distrust, I mean it used to be acceptable to massacre a group because they were Protestant or spoke the wrong dialect, this isn’t something that hinges on joint stock companies, and inequality was arguably at its lowest in the capitalist era than at any time since the invention of hereditary monarchy.

(I don’t think lack of education makes people vote against their own interests, a better way for the powers that be is to ensure that any vote has the same effect).

Just because things are better than they have been for some, doesn’t mean there isn’t still room for improvement.

And I can agree with that last statement, though it still does come down to “person with money does everything they can to get more money”. By buying every politician they can get their hands on, they can further their own interests by privatising things like education, healthcare, water access, etc; things that people in other well off, more publicised countries take for granted. While you do raise a valid point, someone who isn’t well educated and taught to think freely is far less likely to notice when they’re getting screwed.

Sure, restrictions could be put in place to keep capitalism in check, but the same was done hundreds of years ago to keep church and state separate, and look at America now.