Everything you enjoy, from iPhones to cars to TVs- why is this so hard to understand?

My life is pretty damn easy in most respects and I openly applaud capitalism for that.

My life is also pretty damn inconvenient in some other respects and I openly admit that there is a direct and specific government policy behind every single one of them.

Being taxed for working, buying, driving and housing for nothing in return certainly doesn't help either..

Freedom comes at a high price (cost). It’s not cheap to have the best and most readily capable military machine on the planet. Also, we need all that tax money to give it away to lazy liberals and illegal aliens.

And don't forget the piggy bank is open to foreign governments... we need to pay them to like us... although I don't think that policy is working in Iran...

"Also, we need all that tax money to give it away to lazy liberals and illegal aliens."

and even more to israel

What percent in each state are retirees?

So are you saying being government dependent is a bad thing right?

Wonder what is the ethnic breakdown of those top four states?

Understood, but my question is about the ethnic makeup of those four states. Betting that there's a direct correlation, the higher the percentage of POCs in an area then the higher the number of career welfare recipients you'll find in that area. I'll research it tomorrow, it's bedtime here in the MDT.

There you have it.

"My life is also pretty damn inconvenient in some other respects and I openly admit that there is a direct and specific government policy behind every single one of them"

eyyy admitting the the insterstate highway act was a mistake for how much congestion we have now

"Being taxed for... driving... doesn't help either"

sell your car and take the train/bus instead then :)

"and housing"

maybe rent out at an apartment for a lower price instead

Like destroy the environment, crash the economy, deny housing, threaten joblessness and homelessness, uproot democracy, deny workers breaks, the right to organize, a living wage, life outside of work, spy on workers and customers and produce the worst economic inequality ever recorded in history. Wow, capitalists do such good things.

I have zero doubt that you are a good little consumer, which means you are a capitalist enabler.

For shame!

It’s almost like I have no choice but to consume to survive!

You can make all the excuses you want, you are still supporting capitalism.

But you could always move to a less capitalist country, where they couldn't care less about the environment, have no economy but lotsa starvation, live in ghettos, have no jobs, and certainly no democracy, treat workers like slaves (because they are), organizing gets you publicly executed, a living wage? If you're lucky, they'll let you live, etc etc etc.

Anyone that complains about capitalism is really ignorant, especially if they enjoy the fruits of capitalism.

Tell me you don't know what living under communism is like without telling me you don't know what living under communism is like. Wow.

Capitalism has been forced on the world, the distribution of private property laid out unevenly, leaving us all at the mercy of capitalists/property owners to sell ourselves into servitude so we can afford the things we need to survive. And you have the gall to tell me I "enjoy the fruits of capitalism", when there isn't an alternative, and the United States actively tries to eliminate the alternatives to capitalism.

You don't know that everyone at my work is afraid of our boss and receives regular threats from him but don't leave because we need the money. Am I enjoying the fruits? Work is miserable for me, because my work is repetitive and my mind is occupied by horrific intrusive thoughts. My boss also said he would illegally fire employees who try to unionize. Enjoyment? Most landlords won't lease to me, even though I obviously need housing to survive, so as a result I live in one of the cheapest studio apartments in town, and can't even park in my own parking lot. Am I enjoying the fruits of capitalism still? You don't have a f**king clue.

https://youtu.be/01FJXTvqHPE?t=590

btw- I am sorry to hear that you are so miserable in your current job. I have been there, done that, and it is much harder once you have a family to support. Still, I knew when it was time to start looking.

This could include looking at a different area of the country, depending on where you live. It is an unfortunate reality that the Democrat Party, where the efforts to bring Socialism to the US come from, destroys larger cities, making it unaffordable to live for most of the Middle Class. They are, however, masters at making people homeless.

Some basic advice- find a trade you would like to do. Skilled trades people are in HIGH DEMAND, and that demand will only increase.

Capitalism has lifted BILLIONS out of poverty. Hard stop.

Work is miserable for you because you are a whiny snowflake. Hard stop.

As for your alleged evil boss, capitalism affords you FAR more ways to deal with that than communism/socialism/marxism/etcism EVER would. Under your fairy tale system, THE STATE tells you what to do, AND YOU LIKE IT, whether you do or not. That, or you do your work in a gulag somewhere, or worse.

There are SERIOUS laws in place to protect anyone trying to unionize, laws that are stacked HEAVILY against an employer. If you were 1/10th as smart as you think you are, you would know that you need to contact a union and have them help you with this. They will most certainly stand between you and your eeeeevil boss, assuming that you are a large enough group to make it financially worth the union's efforts. Unions are first and foremost, businesses, and they really do not care about the little guy.

Of course, in a wide open job market, you could just find a new job. I wonder what could be keeping you from leaving such a horrible job? Could it be . . . MONEY???!! So you can buy you some of that nasty, yet very tasty capitalism!

And why would ANY landlord not lease to a paying customer? Obviously, there is something you aren't telling me.

You seem to think that capitalism is the source of all your woes- it is not. Rather, it is the source of everything you find enjoyable in life. No, the source of all your woes is first, YOU, and secondly, other people. Here's a clue, rock star- socialism is run by . . . wait for it . . . OTHER PEOPLE, who are no less greedy than the worst of the worst of capitalists.

What I hear you really saying is that you don't like to work, and you don't want to be bothered by the effort to find another job, because you don't want to work in the first place. Sorry, that's the way it goes, unless you can get you one of those worthless gub'mint jobs where people do nothing but hassle other people. Kind of like your evil boss does . . . see the pattern?

I don’t think you could be more clueless about anything you talk about. You are insufferable.

Capitalism is deepening poverty. People used to be subsistence farmers who sustained themselves and now have to live on small amounts of money thanks to their government adopting free market policies. In all capitalist countries, more people are falling into poverty if you adjust the criteria from the pitiful $1.90 a day to just $7.40 a day. In fact, by that metric you would find more than 60 percent of the planet lives in extreme poverty. The only places in which poverty is decreasing are the left-wing governments in Latin America, and more than anywhere else, East Asia — socialist China.

You obviously don’t know what socialism is. Socialists seek to democratize workplaces and eliminate their hierarchical structure — this means electing representation and management and usually probably altering those positions. All aspects of work would become democratic.

The National Labor Relations Act does protect workers in many ways, but you are insane if you think this is strongly rigged against employers. It’s the very opposite. Donald Trump, just like others before him, have appointed anti-union people to the NLRB. In fact, Trump appointed someone who helped take down PATCO in 1981. Capitalists typically get a slap on the wrist for violating labor law, occasionally unions might get another election or something favorable, but the NLRB favors employers undeniably.

Most landlords won’t lease to me because of my criminal record.

You can’t seem to think outside of the material conditions outside of what capitalism has set. You don’t need to work for a boss or be somebody else’s boss. What the f**k is that? Work should not be dominating our lives as it does now. That really reduces fulfillment and joy in life. When we do work, it should not be for the profits of a minority class, but to produce the wealth for everyone to enjoy.

Capitalism does not increase my joy, it adds to my misery, immediately in my economic situation, and indirectly in my legal situation and by promoting the far-right and their policies which hurts my friends who are part of marginalized groups, like LGBTQ+. My friends bring me the most joy, as does socialism, none of those are produced by capitalism (though the contradictions of capitalism result in us bringing about socialism).

"Most landlords won’t lease to me because of my criminal record."

As suspected, you are your own worse enemy, and I am sorry to hear that.

Here's what you get under Socialism- you still have a job, and that boss you hate so much? He could well be your boss under Socialism.

And criminals are still criminals under Socialism, but now the government employees are even more criminal than before.

All of history shows us what human nature does under those systems.

And are you sure it's me that's insufferable, and not the situation you put yourself in by breaking the law? You are fooling yourself if you think this all gets better under Socialism, which is run by other human beings.

Now, on a more concerned note- what I said about the laws protecting people who are trying to seek representation from a union ARE stacked against employers. Once you start the process, any efforts made against any employee are highly scrutinized. An employer can still fire you, but they had best have every shred of evidence possible that it was a just termination. If not, you own them, legally speaking.

If it is really that bad, EVERYONE is hiring. Could you end up somewhere worse? Of course, but as the saying goes, "I was looking for a job when I found this one."

The only older people that tout Socialism are the ones that are already rich themselves, so the suffering that goes along with implementing such a system will not affect them, so that leaves someone who is too young to know better- I am assuming you fall into the latter category.

You do not have to put up with a bad work environment- you have your whole future ahead of you.

The genius of universities is paying people to produce more SJW's that want a handout too

All sorts of evil crap is created by "smart people" with degrees in universities.

If you have never studied the Cloward-Piven Strategy, take a look at this and see if it doesn't sound like the playbook for liberals in the US, and around the world. Allowing illegal aliens in and allowing them to overwhelm our systems is right in line with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy

Here this man's presentation: https://tinyurl.com/yydyvcjh

"requires businesses to do good things for society to make a profit"

yoo isn't this the same pundit outlet supporting israel and george w. bush? how are war crimes good for society?

also you can't convince me that prageru has any decency after i encountered that fever dream known as prageru kids.

They also made a pro Robert E. Lee video

Were you thinking you possessed the cognitive skills to accurately rate the content of that video?

You weren't really, right?

ooh projection. ranting about someone else's cognitive skills says a lot about the ranter lmao.

don't care what's in the video. just saw enough of leelo and layla to know that no one's kids should be suffering through what prageru considers """"""education""""""

^^^

Case in point.

Thank you for the demonstration!

The average liberal -- much less the average leftist -- demonstrates no comprehension of capitalism whatsoever. It's not entirely their fault since leftist teachers control the educational system. All they KNOW is what they are TOLD . . . and aside from social engineering stuff by way of SJW, WOKE, CRT dominated, Politically Correct ideology . . . they are never really told much.

Well, businesses trick people into THINKING people what they are doing is good via advertising, even if it is bad.

Because the main goal of capitalists isn’t to do good things for society - it’s to turn a profit. Sure, profits can overlap with doing good things, however, if a certain action is good for society but it isn’t profitable, why would a business do that good action?

Are you "tricked" by their advertising?