Then you are lost in 1970’s political nonsense, start studying what’s happening in Silicon Valley and in China then tell me left right politics is of any relevance today 😉
I’ve read Vulture Capitalism and a lot of what Grace says is true. Having all of her observations consolidated so well in one book makes for a great insight into how our world operates. In years gone past it seemed a bit more effort was made by corporations and govts to operate covertly, these days they just don’t seem to care. Which for me is a greater concern. These forces against the collective good appear to operate without any fear of retribution.
That's precisely the absurdity of the too late capitalism. They are so sure that no matter how valid the criticism is there wouldn't be an uproar. It's just like a funny roasting session for them. They know we are all non-harming consumerist zombies.
Capitalism is essentially a squid game. Workers are basically forced to compete for survival due to the nature of the game. Then the politicians say 'its in our nature to be competitive', it's not, it's in our nature to survive. Capitalism says compete or die, kill or be killed, while socialism is cooperation, where it is in our best interest that everybody is capable of participating according to their ability, and be compensated so they can flourish as individuals.
Well I dont know, the history of the world is war and conquest. Including all the native cultures. The other thing is, nobody is forced into the capitalist game. You can buy a cheap plot of land in the country and grow your own food. You can be like the Amish, totally reject the state and be self sufficient.
I disagree that it's in our nature to be competitive (outside of a competitive activity of course). It's a strawman argument (Grace likes a strawman). The only person we are in competition with is ourselves. We all strive to do better for ourselves. That is human nature and is aligned with evolution. If you are in competition with others it's a personal flaw resulting from insecurity. Human beings, while compassionate and altruistic to some degree, generally operate in their own self interest. That includes politicians and is true no matter what the political system.
She literally wouldn’t get anything done, and that’s kind of the point of what she’s saying. You can’t get socialism by voting people like Grace in, because we don’t live in a democratic society. Class struggle and revolution is how we accomplish socialism. Now get to it. Go organize your workplace
It’s funny to me how she talks about people joining the far right to take out their anger. When, just as how her expert analysis for capitalism’s failures was, she takes out her anger with another form of economic extremism. Reading the book was like getting an expert diagnosis about all your health problems that you agree with, and then the doctor prescribes snake oil. Utterly confusing. Something tells me she doesn’t actually have a solution but needed to wrap something up to her very real diagnosis. Reminds me of school.
shes a marxist. no one with an ounce of common sense or knowledge of history would ever follow these principles. Colleges are destroying minds today. amazingly-- even once she enters the real world, she still rationalizes this level of stupid thinking. when i graduated college, and started a small business, it only took me about 5 years to no longer follow liberal thinking because its all based on lies. Thanks to obama, i left the left.
I think it's not just the people in power that stand in the way of changing society. We need to account for those who don't have power and are not capitalists themselves but are benefitting from the systems currently in place and will fight tooth and nail to maintain the status quo. One example is investing in the fossil fuel and defense industries. Average investors will be opposed to anything that decreases the value of their portfolio. Thanks Thatcher.
If they don't have power, then their fighting tooth and nail is just cute to watch. Investors are part of the people in power because they have huge amounts of money and money is power. Also, investors aren't smart enough to pick those things that maximize the value of their portfolio, so they listen to economists because they think economists are experts, but economists are morons and charlatans.
I think capitalism has relied on individualism to divide us for far too long than we realize. The political system uses this tool has a form of identity and recentment politics where we blames eachother instead of the system structures and the elites that uphold such structure of oppression and division.
Weaponizing the real and legitimate resentment we feel from being disenfranchised by the system, and using it to further entrench the hierarchy, with even less accountability.
competition through capitalism drives down costs where socialism through government drives up costs. how are you seriously stupid enough to support graces lies?
We live in the best country in the world with the most developed culture, the most freedom, and the most diversity. But they want to tear it all down and become North Korea instead.
I used to see capatalism this way when I was twelve. It is a profoundly low resolution critique and a mistepresentation of the flaws in the system. What capatalism needs to function correctly is a moral and vigilant society that holds the line of accountability through lawmakers and politicians otherwise it will be corrupted by the worst of us. Is our capitalistic sytem corrupted. It absolutley is because we allowed it to happen. Was it socialism that lifted more people out of poverty in the last 70 years than any system in human history? No, that was capatalism. Socialism, however has killed hundreds of millions of people in the same time frame. Im happy to discuss what has become of capatalism since the inception of the federal reserve that led to criminal banking practices and the eventual merging of coroorate and state power that have led us to our current position of being ruled by a technocratic oligarchy perpetuated and protected by a profoundly corrupt government that gaslights its people into believing that our constitutional republic and its citizens have democratically elected representation. More than happy to discuss this and possible solutions. However, I will not be told by a couple of brats that have benefitted from capatalism their entire lives that Socialism is a superior model. If you want to live in a socialist country than you should do that and I wish you luck. Or start a commune in your home country that you seem to despise. Socialism is a cancer because it fails to understand the psychology of humanbeings. And this nonsense about the far-right is just rediculous. The western world is indeed full of extremists at the moment and they are all lefty progressives, communists and Sharia law type Islamics. Ive had my fill of this clown activism that is detached from reality.
"Was it socialism that lifted more people out of poverty in the last 70 years than any system in human history? No, that was capatalism. Socialism, however has killed hundreds of millions of people in the same time frame." Capitalist c_unts need to know that Britain killed Hundreds of millions of people in the global South colonies, and that is only considering one single colonial power. All the other west European Capitalist nations have starved to death, exterminated close to probably a billion people. And funny how the "civilized" and "educated" westerners can't perform simple mathematics. Under Socialism, USSR saw the fastest increase in life expectancy and living standards of its people, meanwhile, at the same time, Britain was intentionally starving tens of millions of people in British India. Under Socialism, China created record for fastest increase in life expectancy, breaking even the Soviet record. Tell me "educated" westoid, how come the life expectancy increase that way under Socialism, when Hundreds of millions of people were dying? 😂😂
You cant make this stuff up. I cant work out weather Grace Blakeley talking about capitalism on a platform run by Amazon is sarcasm or satire? Or maybe this just her way of getting the message home. Hold on, I've got it.. its comedy!
I think, Blakeley explains quite well, what capitalism really is. I wonder, what she thinks about the industry powered by fossil fuels, because I think, extractive industries that steal wealth from local communities and future generations are the biggest problem. Most industries, especially the bigger ones, are extractive.
@@ronaldreagan-ik6hz Ronald Reagan was a warmongering racist fascist who, along with Rupert Murdoch is responsible for the current state of dysfunctional global economic system.
i agree with grace on many things but where she falls down is insisting that an alternative view is automatically faaaaar right! it really demeans her argument which is a shame!!
She lives in a dream world. Nice idea but far removed from reality. For every example she provides, you can easily show examples of the opposite. Might work for small local communities won't work for nation states.
She should go live in a commune! Thomas Moore call it Utopia! Utopia means nowhere/non-existent! Did she not use the capitalist system to sell her books😂
@@ronaldreagan-ik6hz There are ZERO far left leaders/countries/wealthy people and there is no far left movement to even qualify your 'facts'. Rightwing media has brainwashed people to fear anything resembling real democracy, truth and justice for everyone not just the rich. What used to be the 'left' say democrats, labour party in Australia and UK are now centre right aka 'friendly fascism and what was the rightwing 20 years ago with Reagan is now flat out no holds barred fascism with Trump, Putin, Netanyahu and other dick-tators. The rightwing fascists who will destroy what's left of America will eventually self destruct because they are selfish, cruel, ignorant people who live in FEAR of things they can never understand, appreciate or love. It won't end well for those fascists that deny the rights of other people which is exactly what they always do. I hope you're not one of them as you seem genuine and I truly wish you well.
Wrong, the wealth that can be produced is limited for several reasons, contrary as capitalists will tell you. That means people accumulating more and more wealth are impoverishing the rest.
That’s just plain wrong Im sorry to say. In our theoretically “free market” economy we compete with the rich for assets. That includes, for example, residential real estate. Over the past several decades THIS is the reason why residential real estate price inflation has been vastly greater than regular consumer goods. As the rich (or their proxies, the financial institutions that the rich own and control that issue mortgages) have begun since the 1980s to accumulate proportionally vastly greater wealth than the median working class person they have been looking for investments to make (the reason the stock market seems to be growing ever more entirely out of touch with the working class economy … because it is out of touch … the rich are the ones buying it and selling it and setting it’s prices) and assets to buy … like residential properties for example. So, therefore it’s THE PRICE THE RICH BUYERS / INVESTORS ARE WILLING TO PAY not only in competition with you, a wage earning working class person, but also in competition with OTHER RICH BUYERS / INVESTORS. The residential housing market is experiencing this phenomenon EVERYWHERE there has been neoliberal capitalism that has transitioned to the new “finance capitalist” services based model in the world’s so-called “advanced” capitalist democracies. The countries where more political control has been ceded to the rich banker class, and the richer the highest 1 or 2% have become, and the higher the residential housing prices have spiraled. So your message is just wrong. In a capitalist society, we compete for assets with everyone, including the super wealthy. You cannot outcompete them for assets. And since the value of their assets is based upon scarcity, they will fight you at every opportunity to prevent you from creating an abundance of an asset they purchased while scarce. They will fight to maintain artificial scarcity. Food gets thrown away. Clothes shipped to vast distant valley dump sites, and residential houses are prevented from being built by a variety of means. If the super rich are permitted to become as exceedingly wealthy as they are now in the USA and also gain complete control of the political system then you have no chance at all to compete against them at all for assets and critical resources. Your statement is one of the favorite little bits of false consciousness the phony intellectual rich bow-tied playboy toff followers of French anthropologist René Girard (“Mimetic Desire”) spew on and on with their “we must stop the politics of envy”. It’s utter bulls**t in a capitalist society. They know it, and they only prattle on about it in the vain hope all the shy working class intellectual boys who haven’t yet completely figured out their sexuality can be “turned” conservative if they think that the well dressed bow-tied Girard boys are kinda cute and maybe they’re on to something about needing to “transcend materialism and envy”. That’s some hilarious sh*t coming from the oak paneled home library crowd, young “sensitive intellectual” sons of men who have been comfortably members of the 1% for at least two or more generations already and sucking up more and more of the nations wealth, resources and assets for their next generation every day. It’s a class war. They know it is. You know it is. Wealth and assets IS life. And wether we like it or not we currently compete for assets with those that are wealthier than us. Vastly wealthier sometimes. If wealth of others is so unimportant then you won’t mind a 5% wealth tax imposed upon the those whose wealth exceeds say 10 million dollars, scaled up to 25% for anyone whose wealth exceeds 500 million dollars, and 50% on all the billionaires. Do I hear some words of protest? I hope not. See, I believe wealth distribution is very important to the proper function of a society and a sure fire way to destroy a well ordered civil, law-abiding, country-loving, entrepreneurial society and nation is to permit the kind of wealth and asset inequality we’ve permitted to occur since a Reagan set the mechanism in motion in the 1980s. It’s long past time to remedy it, before the rich and their ideology and bitter brutal class war hidden by a cynical ugly and possibly soon to be violent culture war destroys what’s left that is good in the country.
@@alebeni5006 And also, very importantly, outcompeting them for limited resources and assets, like residential properties (houses). It’s why house prices have gone up so much higher than regular consumer goods.
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I could listen to Grace speak all day
Then you are lost in 1970’s political nonsense,
start studying what’s happening in Silicon Valley and in China then tell me left right politics is of any relevance today 😉
@@RobinHomer-p6n obviously it is as relevant as ever.
thats what fools said about hitler
@@ronaldreagan-ik6hz bro we got hitler netinyahoo at home
following grace makes you a fool. period.
I’ve read Vulture Capitalism and a lot of what Grace says is true. Having all of her observations consolidated so well in one book makes for a great insight into how our world operates. In years gone past it seemed a bit more effort was made by corporations and govts to operate covertly, these days they just don’t seem to care. Which for me is a greater concern. These forces against the collective good appear to operate without any fear of retribution.
I bet that book is toss.
so why doesnt grace live under a socialist system herself? because she knows its a failed system. LOL.
It is so interesting that Amazon is hosting this. They have zero preoccupation with opposition, unfortunately.
That's precisely the absurdity of the too late capitalism. They are so sure that no matter how valid the criticism is there wouldn't be an uproar. It's just like a funny roasting session for them. They know we are all non-harming consumerist zombies.
Capitalism is essentially a squid game. Workers are basically forced to compete for survival due to the nature of the game. Then the politicians say 'its in our nature to be competitive', it's not, it's in our nature to survive. Capitalism says compete or die, kill or be killed, while socialism is cooperation, where it is in our best interest that everybody is capable of participating according to their ability, and be compensated so they can flourish as individuals.
Well I dont know, the history of the world is war and conquest. Including all the native cultures.
The other thing is, nobody is forced into the capitalist game. You can buy a cheap plot of land in the country and grow your own food. You can be like the Amish, totally reject the state and be self sufficient.
I disagree that it's in our nature to be competitive (outside of a competitive activity of course). It's a strawman argument (Grace likes a strawman). The only person we are in competition with is ourselves. We all strive to do better for ourselves. That is human nature and is aligned with evolution. If you are in competition with others it's a personal flaw resulting from insecurity. Human beings, while compassionate and altruistic to some degree, generally operate in their own self interest. That includes politicians and is true no matter what the political system.
If Grace ran for office, she would get my vote.
She literally wouldn’t get anything done, and that’s kind of the point of what she’s saying. You can’t get socialism by voting people like Grace in, because we don’t live in a democratic society. Class struggle and revolution is how we accomplish socialism. Now get to it. Go organize your workplace
@@musicdev I was literally about to say this :P
@@MrNerdyBrithaha which part? Anyway glad someone gets it
@@musicdev Pretty much all of what you said.
lots of misinformed people fall for the lies of socialists. Look at hitler
I'm not far right for not voting against the party I don't like!!
It’s funny to me how she talks about people joining the far right to take out their anger.
When, just as how her expert analysis for capitalism’s failures was, she takes out her anger with another form of economic extremism.
Reading the book was like getting an expert diagnosis about all your health problems that you agree with, and then the doctor prescribes snake oil. Utterly confusing. Something tells me she doesn’t actually have a solution but needed to wrap something up to her very real diagnosis. Reminds me of school.
thus goes the stupidity of socialism and enlightens the clarity of capitalism.
What she's doing isn't economic extremism it's just common sense, what's happening right now is economic extremism
shes a marxist. no one with an ounce of common sense or knowledge of history would ever follow these principles. Colleges are destroying minds today.
amazingly-- even once she enters the real world, she still rationalizes this level of stupid thinking.
when i graduated college, and started a small business, it only took me about 5 years to no longer follow liberal thinking because its all based on lies. Thanks to obama, i left the left.
@@danielmoir13 calling grace blakely (a marxist idiot) common sense makes you utterly stupid.
WTF are you whining about - you're not understanding any of what she said so why did you bother with this video?
I think it's not just the people in power that stand in the way of changing society. We need to account for those who don't have power and are not capitalists themselves but are benefitting from the systems currently in place and will fight tooth and nail to maintain the status quo. One example is investing in the fossil fuel and defense industries. Average investors will be opposed to anything that decreases the value of their portfolio. Thanks Thatcher.
If they don't have power, then their fighting tooth and nail is just cute to watch. Investors are part of the people in power because they have huge amounts of money and money is power.
Also, investors aren't smart enough to pick those things that maximize the value of their portfolio, so they listen to economists because they think economists are experts, but economists are morons and charlatans.
I think capitalism has relied on individualism to divide us for far too long than we realize. The political system uses this tool has a form of identity and recentment politics where we blames eachother instead of the system structures and the elites that uphold such structure of oppression and division.
Weaponizing the real and legitimate resentment we feel from being disenfranchised by the system, and using it to further entrench the hierarchy, with even less accountability.
Weaponising "alienation" is what Marx did.Like a pied piper.
no ones dumber than a socialist
Isn't the fusion of public and private power to ensure that wealth can be extracted from the workers just plain old fascism?
wealth is made by consumers and lower class workers that live and consume wisely.
nice try.
Sure is - it's friendly fascism when done by neo-liberals and flat out old fashioned Nazi style fascism when it's trump/putin/netanyahu
Brexit - you can vote against and speak out against....the people we point at....that's freedom.😂
She's excellent!
sold! i just bought this. good for you, grace.
just think. you just bought a book using capitalism that was sold by a fucking socialist. LOL
She wants “economic and political transformation” but is disparaging of the “ far right” who want to “burn it all down” 😂
Real democracy has never been tried.
how are you seriously this stupid?
Gracefully explained!
"We have just as much of a capacity for cooperation as we do for competition" - Grace Blakeley
competition through capitalism drives down costs where socialism through government drives up costs. how are you seriously stupid enough to support graces lies?
I could look at Grace all day ❤
thats what they said about hitler
Interesting article 👍
We live in the best country in the world with the most developed culture, the most freedom, and the most diversity.
But they want to tear it all down and become North Korea instead.
What timestamp does she say she wants to turn the uk into north Korea?
what country is that? We see that you've drunk the cool-aid and taken the blue pill
Power has to be taken by violent force.
The Long March is already there
so much for freedom huh? yep. socialists hate freedom.
I used to see capatalism this way when I was twelve. It is a profoundly low resolution critique and a mistepresentation of the flaws in the system.
What capatalism needs to function correctly is a moral and vigilant society that holds the line of accountability through lawmakers and politicians otherwise it will be corrupted by the worst of us.
Is our capitalistic sytem corrupted. It absolutley is because we allowed it to happen.
Was it socialism that lifted more people out of poverty in the last 70 years than any system in human history? No, that was capatalism. Socialism, however has killed hundreds of millions of people in the same time frame.
Im happy to discuss what has become of capatalism since the inception of the federal reserve that led to criminal banking practices and the eventual merging of coroorate and state power that have led us to our current position of being ruled by a technocratic oligarchy perpetuated and protected by a profoundly corrupt government that gaslights its people into believing that our constitutional republic and its citizens have democratically elected representation.
More than happy to discuss this and possible solutions.
However, I will not be told by a couple of brats that have benefitted from capatalism their entire lives that Socialism is a superior model. If you want to live in a socialist country than you should do that and I wish you luck. Or start a commune in your home country that you seem to despise.
Socialism is a cancer because it fails to understand the psychology of humanbeings.
And this nonsense about the far-right is just rediculous. The western world is indeed full of extremists at the moment and they are all lefty progressives, communists and Sharia law type Islamics.
Ive had my fill of this clown activism that is detached from reality.
"Was it socialism that lifted more people out of poverty in the last 70 years than any system in human history? No, that was capatalism. Socialism, however has killed hundreds of millions of people in the same time frame."
Capitalist c_unts need to know that Britain killed Hundreds of millions of people in the global South colonies, and that is only considering one single colonial power. All the other west European Capitalist nations have starved to death, exterminated close to probably a billion people. And funny how the "civilized" and "educated" westerners can't perform simple mathematics. Under Socialism, USSR saw the fastest increase in life expectancy and living standards of its people, meanwhile, at the same time, Britain was intentionally starving tens of millions of people in British India. Under Socialism, China created record for fastest increase in life expectancy, breaking even the Soviet record. Tell me "educated" westoid, how come the life expectancy increase that way under Socialism, when Hundreds of millions of people were dying? 😂😂
no system is more successful than capitalism for lifting the poor. No system.
You cant make this stuff up. I cant work out weather Grace Blakeley talking about capitalism on a platform run by Amazon is sarcasm or satire? Or maybe this just her way of getting the message home. Hold on, I've got it.. its comedy!
How much crypto does she own?
No concrete solutions.
I think, Blakeley explains quite well, what capitalism really is. I wonder, what she thinks about the industry powered by fossil fuels, because I think, extractive industries that steal wealth from local communities and future generations are the biggest problem. Most industries, especially the bigger ones, are extractive.
any middle class person can invest in big business and thus capitalize from it. LOL
@@ronaldreagan-ik6hz Ronald Reagan was a warmongering racist fascist who, along with Rupert Murdoch is responsible for the current state of dysfunctional global economic system.
i agree with grace on many things but where she falls down is insisting that an alternative view is automatically faaaaar right! it really demeans her argument which is a shame!!
Which part of the video does she say that?
Yes,they've done such great work siphoning money to the top and starting wars.... especially in the 1930s
her argument? for socialism? LOL . what a fool
She lives in a dream world.
Nice idea but far removed from reality. For every example she provides, you can easily show examples of the opposite. Might work for small local communities won't work for nation states.
yep, keep believing in the current system like a good little servant of the elites and be very afraid to change anything
She should go live in a commune! Thomas Moore call it Utopia! Utopia means nowhere/non-existent! Did she not use the capitalist system to sell her books😂
Nah I’ll keep what I own, thank you very much
Well said, Tarquin. You tell those pesky plebs. See you at the fox hunt tomorrow, old chap. Tally ho.
You must enjoy the taste of boots
@@00Platypus00 I love the taste of money😂
@@Pinktieproductions1234 You are confusing private and personal property. Confusing money and capital.
What exactly do you own that you risk seeing taken away (in relation to this conversation)?
❤
We will work together, pk? ⭐️
People have hated their government for over a century but in the past they at least werent as terrible as now.
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My god.
“Far Right” and “Extreme far-right”. What is the Right Wing then?
the far left calls everything "far right" -- yet show me one success of the far left?
@@ronaldreagan-ik6hz trolling are we?
@@jeffwhite2511 did i say anything that was factually incorrect? NOPE
@@ronaldreagan-ik6hz There are ZERO far left leaders/countries/wealthy people and there is no far left movement to even qualify your 'facts'. Rightwing media has brainwashed people to fear anything resembling real democracy, truth and justice for everyone not just the rich. What used to be the 'left' say democrats, labour party in Australia and UK are now centre right aka 'friendly fascism and what was the rightwing 20 years ago with Reagan is now flat out no holds barred fascism with Trump, Putin, Netanyahu and other dick-tators. The rightwing fascists who will destroy what's left of America will eventually self destruct because they are selfish, cruel, ignorant people who live in FEAR of things they can never understand, appreciate or love. It won't end well for those fascists that deny the rights of other people which is exactly what they always do. I hope you're not one of them as you seem genuine and I truly wish you well.
Mostly agree..excepting her grossly inaccurate description of AFD in Germany
everything grace says is grossly misrepresented.
@@ronaldreagan-ik6hz Wow, who sent you? MAGA?
@@jeffwhite2511 MAGA is what common sense creates. stupid Kamala paying for endorsements is what progressive stupidity creates.
How much wealth another has, will not affect your life. Unless of course, they sign your paycheck.
Clearly you need to read Grace’s book.
Who taught you that? A rich guy, I expect.
Wrong, the wealth that can be produced is limited for several reasons, contrary as capitalists will tell you. That means people accumulating more and more wealth are impoverishing the rest.
That’s just plain wrong Im sorry to say. In our theoretically “free market” economy we compete with the rich for assets. That includes, for example, residential real estate. Over the past several decades THIS is the reason why residential real estate price inflation has been vastly greater than regular consumer goods. As the rich (or their proxies, the financial institutions that the rich own and control that issue mortgages) have begun since the 1980s to accumulate proportionally vastly greater wealth than the median working class person they have been looking for investments to make (the reason the stock market seems to be growing ever more entirely out of touch with the working class economy … because it is out of touch … the rich are the ones buying it and selling it and setting it’s prices) and assets to buy … like residential properties for example. So, therefore it’s THE PRICE THE RICH BUYERS / INVESTORS ARE WILLING TO PAY not only in competition with you, a wage earning working class person, but also in competition with OTHER RICH BUYERS / INVESTORS. The residential housing market is experiencing this phenomenon EVERYWHERE there has been neoliberal capitalism that has transitioned to the new “finance capitalist” services based model in the world’s so-called “advanced” capitalist democracies. The countries where more political control has been ceded to the rich banker class, and the richer the highest 1 or 2% have become, and the higher the residential housing prices have spiraled.
So your message is just wrong. In a capitalist society, we compete for assets with everyone, including the super wealthy. You cannot outcompete them for assets. And since the value of their assets is based upon scarcity, they will fight you at every opportunity to prevent you from creating an abundance of an asset they purchased while scarce. They will fight to maintain artificial scarcity. Food gets thrown away. Clothes shipped to vast distant valley dump sites, and residential houses are prevented from being built by a variety of means. If the super rich are permitted to become as exceedingly wealthy as they are now in the USA and also gain complete control of the political system then you have no chance at all to compete against them at all for assets and critical resources.
Your statement is one of the favorite little bits of false consciousness the phony intellectual rich bow-tied playboy toff followers of French anthropologist René Girard (“Mimetic Desire”) spew on and on with their “we must stop the politics of envy”. It’s utter bulls**t in a capitalist society. They know it, and they only prattle on about it in the vain hope all the shy working class intellectual boys who haven’t yet completely figured out their sexuality can be “turned” conservative if they think that the well dressed bow-tied Girard boys are kinda cute and maybe they’re on to something about needing to “transcend materialism and envy”. That’s some hilarious sh*t coming from the oak paneled home library crowd, young “sensitive intellectual” sons of men who have been comfortably members of the 1% for at least two or more generations already and sucking up more and more of the nations wealth, resources and assets for their next generation every day.
It’s a class war. They know it is. You know it is. Wealth and assets IS life. And wether we like it or not we currently compete for assets with those that are wealthier than us. Vastly wealthier sometimes.
If wealth of others is so unimportant then you won’t mind a 5% wealth tax imposed upon the those whose wealth exceeds say 10 million dollars, scaled up to 25% for anyone whose wealth exceeds 500 million dollars, and 50% on all the billionaires. Do I hear some words of protest? I hope not. See, I believe wealth distribution is very important to the proper function of a society and a sure fire way to destroy a well ordered civil, law-abiding, country-loving, entrepreneurial society and nation is to permit the kind of wealth and asset inequality we’ve permitted to occur since a Reagan set the mechanism in motion in the 1980s. It’s long past time to remedy it, before the rich and their ideology and bitter brutal class war hidden by a cynical ugly and possibly soon to be violent culture war destroys what’s left that is good in the country.
@@alebeni5006 And also, very importantly, outcompeting them for limited resources and assets, like residential properties (houses). It’s why house prices have gone up so much higher than regular consumer goods.