Agreed! But can’t be done with our current system, overpaid and ineffective law makers that make laws to benefit themselves at our expense. Greed and power disguised with intimidation and violence. Unless we change abruptly and drastically, we’re doomed!

Indeed. They even named it a 'consumer society' precisely to show who serves what.

All rules/structures/culture/laws/etc

Wow that’s really profound. Hadn’t heard that one.

Live for a working or work for a living? Juneteenth was supposed to give us the latter.

100%

That's how black people have been considered for generations. Why is that a problem now???

Ahhh yes Capitalism.

Corporate bootlickers are so thoroughly entrenched in their corporate idolatry they can’t imagine anything but loving the boot heel on their throat.

Polanyi wrote about the transition from market economy to market society. The idea that society should be independent from economy is right. But that should presuppose some forms of public interaction not based on money, that are actually absent, e.g. media, politics are funded.