How useful is an #election in a democratic #system where many only vote for the candidate so that #Trump does not come to #power again?
Progressive politics, which is committed to social #justice and the preservation of our livelihood, must necessarily redistribute #wealth and restructure our #economy, which should actually be possible for the majority because it serves the majority, but the concrete actions always get in the way of the #profit interests of some very powerful actors, who have therefore been involved since the beginning of #humanity itself and with the help of their lobbyists: Liberal or right-wing parties, media corporations, social #media platforms, think tanks, #lobby associations and #astroturf movements - front against these policies and in this fight do not shy away from stirring up racist, sexist and social-darvinist resentment in order to lead voters down wrong paths that harm the general public but protect the profit interests of the few.
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in reply to anonymiss • • •You can ask the same question when it comes to your American system of “registered voters”, that is not how democracy works. People who register for a party and basically give away their votes in advance, do not participate in a democracy.
Even you anonymiss strive for profit in your life, everyone need profit in order to survive. You need profits of food in your refrigerator, profit for your children so they can get an education, profit in your physical health to function well, profit to live a life. You work in order to gain profit, if you did not profit from your work earning you’d likely call it slave work. Some profit more than other (at the cost of more risk, responsibility and uncertainty) but I agree that at some point it become okay to talk about making arrangements to distribute some of that profit for a greater good. Profit is not bad, when you understand that solutions can be debated. Profit and accumulation of wealth come and go, sometimes it take centuries for a rich family to go back to zero other times the rich one chooses to give away it al
... Show more...You can ask the same question when it comes to your American system of “registered voters”, that is not how democracy works. People who register for a party and basically give away their votes in advance, do not participate in a democracy.
Even you anonymiss strive for profit in your life, everyone need profit in order to survive. You need profits of food in your refrigerator, profit for your children so they can get an education, profit in your physical health to function well, profit to live a life. You work in order to gain profit, if you did not profit from your work earning you’d likely call it slave work. Some profit more than other (at the cost of more risk, responsibility and uncertainty) but I agree that at some point it become okay to talk about making arrangements to distribute some of that profit for a greater good. Profit is not bad, when you understand that solutions can be debated. Profit and accumulation of wealth come and go, sometimes it take centuries for a rich family to go back to zero other times the rich one chooses to give away it all at the end of their live, and some loose it all in the blink of an eye, the time-frame is different. Its always easy to demand someone else give away their profit than to give away your own profit. Profits will naturally redistribute, it just won’t happen as speedy as you would like.
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in reply to anonymiss • • •David
in reply to anonymiss • • •No. You need income. Profit is not just another word for income. Profit is income you get simply by being the owner of something. Most people's income comes from hourly wages. BTW, in the USA, profit is taxed at a lower rate than wages.
Pure fantasy. Most wealthy people here in the USA were born wealthy. They don't give it all away. They keep it in the family. In fact, they never give away so much that they are no longer wealthy. They are only generous when it doesn't force them to live like us.
Richard
in reply to anonymiss • • •Or out of spite. See MacKenzie Scott.