An economic system should exist to serve the deepest needs of humanity. What we have now is humanity in servitude to an economic system that in the final analysis could care less about its deepest needs.

Apr 11, 2022 · 2:29 PM UTC

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👍 *Couldn't care less
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It serves a very few that due to their mental and personality defect, could care less about anyone other than themselves. Corporate Politicians take bribes from the aforementioned to keep it that way. They can be seen to have the same mental and personality defects.
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Logs for the fire of the eternally expanding gdp...
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The Tax Rate needs to be put back to what it was in 1960 ... 91% for wealthy individuals ... and ... 52% for corporations ...
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Exactly. We can eagerly point out bygone days of factory workers, sweatshops, and forced labor—but today the difference is not great. We may look a little more glamorous but have merely replaced factory floors with big box stores…
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Exactly so. There is little mention of economics in the Dec of Ind & the Constitution, but there is a lot of Enlightenment ideas re liberty & the pursuit of happiness. For too many decades in this new Gilded Age the only thing that matters is money, Wall St & corporate profit.
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Captured by corporate stockholder interest, profit. Benefits to communities & sustainable living is optional & coincidental. Profits matter more.
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We need a hybrid of Capitalism n Socialism, Marianne, just like u mentioned the other day. I think that's the best way to ameliorate the negative impact of Capitalism!
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We have a system that cares only about the profits. #ProfitsOverPeople
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We really need to focus on the #ClimateCrisis as there won't be an economic system in the future (nor any Humans) if we don't address that.
The US and other governments around the world have decided what to do about the looming #ClimateCrisis and that is to do nothing. The decision was between utterly destroying the "economy", people having to give up all the things they are used to, mass unemployment and a total
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