The reason young people today are recoiling against capitalism are many fold. I will assume most here are reasonably well informed and thus not go into painful detail but record high wealth inequality, low worker pay to corporate profit ratio, very little true safety net for the most important necessities(health care), privatized profits paid for by socialized costs, where did all that debt money some whatever trillions go, the list goes on and on as some here probably know much better than I. The point is based on numbers things are more inequitable than the gilded age. I thought America won Ww2, you wouldn’t think that from comparing average quality of life here with Germany and Japan. Something clearly went wrong. Sure if your a doctor or a computer programmer or other professional or (successful) business owner things can still be great, but for most of the folks who do jobs like forklift driver or cashier etc. it straight up stinks here, this is not the case for these folks in any other first world country, only here. The simple answer, everyone should be a doctor or programmer or whatever, does that really work? The only true solution is that if u want your neighbors to pay u a living wage for the work u do and the things u sell them u have to pay them a living wage for the work they do even if u think that work deserves less, otherwise there will be no one left to afford your prices or wages. Of course this doesn’t mean all wages should be equal but all wages must allow the earner a sense of dignity and the ability to support them self and their family if they are truly living a frugal and responsible lifestyle. If the middle class truly gets hollowed out here the pain will truly be felt, combine that with the dollar losing its reserve currency status and an new era the likes of which has not been seen will come, and no one will like it, except the very very elite.
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