Even Adam Smith, main architect of free market capitalism, said it couldn’t exist outside an ethical context. He never foresaw capitalism untied to any govt regulation. Capitalism will reclaim an ethical & moral center or a younger generation of Americans will replace it entirely

Apr 7, 2020 · 4:03 PM UTC

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FDR said “I’m not destroying capitalism. I’m saving it.” You can’t sustain a free market when it becomes unfree for the majority of people. You can’t be a capitalist when you have no access to capital! Too many Americans are locked out of the party; it’s immoral & unsustainable.
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Our problem among other things is that there’s no force with major political leverage willing to question the fundamental premise on which the system operates. That used to be the Democratic Party and hopefully it will be again. Right now it’s only lone voices; that’s not enough
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Now we see clearly. #DemocraticSocialism
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Time has come.
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Kicking the can down to a “younger” generation. Old people, to the front lines you go.
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Adam Smith did not "architect" the free market, he observed it, it pre-existed him, and Ibn Khaldun made the same observations 300 years earlier.
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Does anyone know or care about how much is quietly given back? From youth sports sponsors, to major endowments. And it goes back a long way. Look up Andrew Carnegie or Bill Gates. Many, many lower profile cases. How much is given back in Russia, or even European countries?
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Some older ppl will be helping out with this
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70 M refugees ... wars ... planetary destruction .... systemic lies ... May the young(er) generations bless our species with higher evolution.
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For a lot of us <40, Democratic Socialism IS the compromise.
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"Untied?" Please don't make me laugh.
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Let’s do the latter!
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