The interesting thing to me is that Lefties and Righties can hold similar views but can remain so opposed.
Lefties think that Capitalism is the enemy because it makes some people very rich by exploiting others and those rich people take over the world and try to run it their way. Communism, they think will fix the situation. Righties, on the other hand, see people being exploited under Communism while the upper echelons seem to follow different rules. They amass piles of money while ruling the peasants.
In fact, both sides are seeing human nature at work and certain people are exploiting others to get rich. The system is immaterial but the Divide and Rule system is in play. Even though the rich oligarchs are the real problem one half of the population still fights the other on idealogical grounds with neither tackling the real problem of psychopathic oligarchs playing tyrant.
I think lefties are just addicted to outrage and drama. There is nuance to "capitalism bad" that they refuse to see; it doesn't help that they've been successfully bred not to question authorities.
Cronyism is the biggest threat to capitalism. Everyone knows unchecked capitalism is rife for exploitation, which is why we have laws against it -- but those laws are selectively enforced at all levels.
Microsoft buying massive video game publishers with an internal stated goal of muscling out their competition is one example where cronyism leads, as Innovation will end up being stifled at the current pace.
Of course, Amazon as well -- getting rates for two decades or whatever for shipping on the taxpayers' dime that made it extremely cost effective to destroy smaller shops and/or bring them to the Amazon marketplace so they get a cut.
Megacorps trying to consolidate and monopolize (or, yes, oligopolize) their respective industries while ravenously expanding into others to do the same absolutely should have been hit with antitrust. Microsoft in particular was hit with antitrust in the..90s I think? And the reasons for that are less impactful than where we are now.
It has become too easy to grease fingers, especially politicians who have learned that you can get legal bribery by having them simply lobby in favor of your pet projects.
But of course, none of this makes "capitalism bad". It just makes cronyism bad. As it turns out, those cronies are pushing a socialist-communist society on the world too.
The interesting thing to me is that Lefties and Righties can hold similar views but can remain so opposed.
Lefties think that Capitalism is the enemy because it makes some people very rich by exploiting others and those rich people take over the world and try to run it their way. Communism, they think will fix the situation. Righties, on the other hand, see people being exploited under Communism while the upper echelons seem to follow different rules. They amass piles of money while ruling the peasants.
In fact, both sides are seeing human nature at work and certain people are exploiting others to get rich. The system is immaterial but the Divide and Rule system is in play. Even though the rich oligarchs are the real problem one half of the population still fights the other on idealogical grounds with neither tackling the real problem of psychopathic oligarchs playing tyrant.
I think lefties are just addicted to outrage and drama. There is nuance to "capitalism bad" that they refuse to see; it doesn't help that they've been successfully bred not to question authorities.
Cronyism is the biggest threat to capitalism. Everyone knows unchecked capitalism is rife for exploitation, which is why we have laws against it -- but those laws are selectively enforced at all levels.
Microsoft buying massive video game publishers with an internal stated goal of muscling out their competition is one example where cronyism leads, as Innovation will end up being stifled at the current pace.
Of course, Amazon as well -- getting rates for two decades or whatever for shipping on the taxpayers' dime that made it extremely cost effective to destroy smaller shops and/or bring them to the Amazon marketplace so they get a cut.
Megacorps trying to consolidate and monopolize (or, yes, oligopolize) their respective industries while ravenously expanding into others to do the same absolutely should have been hit with antitrust. Microsoft in particular was hit with antitrust in the..90s I think? And the reasons for that are less impactful than where we are now.
It has become too easy to grease fingers, especially politicians who have learned that you can get legal bribery by having them simply lobby in favor of your pet projects.
But of course, none of this makes "capitalism bad". It just makes cronyism bad. As it turns out, those cronies are pushing a socialist-communist society on the world too.