1/ If we really wanted to fight crime we would do more to prevent it. Right now we spend billions of dollars to suppress the symptom and ever diminished resources treating the cause.
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2/ We need to massively front our resources in the direction of children, making every public school in America world class & providing free higher education. Raise minimim wage. Healthier food.We need UBI & free health care. Everything we do to diminish despair diminishes crime.
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Absolutely. Sociologists and others know that violence stems from lack of resources and poverty. Many people selling drugs do so because of lack of employment skills and opportunities. But, Capitalism puts profits over people.
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It has less to do with capitalism per se and more to do with the way money floods our political system. That is what allows dark money to keep too much money concentrated in the hands of too few.
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I hate to break it to you (no I don't), but that *is* Capitalism.
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Hate to break it to you but no it’s not.
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Corrupt money flooding and influencing the political system is at the core of Capitalism. This has been established for a very long time now.
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Replying to @CSkept1c @TheHealstorian
The Supreme Court in the 1970s and Ronald Reagan in the 1980s opened the door to their unfettered influence. Your picture is funny. Do you think China for instance isn’t a state run capitalist system? It absolutely is. Chinese billionaires abound.

Jun 29, 2021 · 11:05 AM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson @TheHealstorian
Reagan was a Capitalist through and through, and the less said about the obvious corruption of the US legal system the better, so what's your point? I don't agree that China is a state-run Capitalist system at all, but that's not the discussion here, nor is my profile picture.
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