It is impossible to defend democratic rights or any of the social interests of working people without seizing the unearned wealth of the billionaire parasites.
Capital investment strips wealth out of the worker/consumer economy (where it is traded for goods and services, and becomes someone’s paycheck) and transfers it to the securities market (where it is used to convert worker productivity into more capital)
Capital investment is only beneficial to the economy when the working class holds the capital.
Your observation is only true where the working class controls the capital. Your point would be well taken if we all had significant shares providing passive income. Buy not even the wealthiest of the working class controls a share of capital proportionate to their productive output.
The worst injustices injustices in history have been perpetrated by oligarchs of some shape or another. We are in the middle of such an era now.
Capital investment strips wealth out of the worker/consumer economy (where it is traded for goods and services, and becomes someone’s paycheck) and transfers it to the securities market (where it is used to convert worker productivity into more capital)
Capital investment is only beneficial to the economy when the working class holds the capital.
That’s observablt false. Capitalism has lead to a massive improvement in living conditions for countries that have implemented it
Yes it also has downsides, but pretending it doesn’t do anything good is rediculous.
You sound like Marx just before he recommends transitioning to socialism as the next logical stage of human development.
I still think that regulated capitalism works best for certain industries, and socialism works best for others.
It doesn’t have to be an all or nothing choice.
That’s dangerously close to Reaganomics friend and we live in a post-capitalism world.
Your observation is only true where the working class controls the capital. Your point would be well taken if we all had significant shares providing passive income. Buy not even the wealthiest of the working class controls a share of capital proportionate to their productive output.
The worst injustices injustices in history have been perpetrated by oligarchs of some shape or another. We are in the middle of such an era now.
And the word is “ridiculous”.