An economic system based more on competition than collaboration will not only fail to solve humanity’s greatest challenges over the next 100 years. It actually created most of them & if allowed to will perpetuate them. We need a fundamental disruption of our economic status quo.
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how tho. genuine question i feel desperately
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Taxation that doesn’t favor the richest. End corporate subsidies. Regulate industry and financial institutions. Anti-trust. Wealth tax. Medicare for all. Better schools for all. Free college. Green New Deal. Higher minimum wage. Union protection. Those things get the ball rolling
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We've had regulation in the past. Clinton started de-regulation. The corporatist capitalist owners subvert regulations. We've seen oil companies skirt regulations. Cheney got exempted from fracking regs. Wall Street finds holes in the regs. all the time.
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It was Reagan who started the orgy of de-regulation.

Apr 26, 2021 · 6:25 AM UTC

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Really? Where did you get your education.... Nixon started the deregulation with the worst move of all on 1971. Our economy, specifically the purchasing power of the #usd has never recovered!
The funnest orgies have no rules. 😜
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Oops. I was thinking about Glass-Stegall Act and the Housing bubble crash. Now I feel like a clown. 😁
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Shitlib take: Pivot to blaming the GOP. What you don't get about capitalism is that accumulation of wealth is also accumulation of power, and the wealthy always unwind the checks and balances that rein them in. Ask yourself why you still want capitalism? Afraid of losing your...
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