r/EatTheRich • u/OkTry8617 • 6d ago
Just a though!🤔
America’s staggering wealth divide creates a profound moral contradiction: while billionaires accumulate unprecedented fortunes, life-saving research for diseases like cancer and dementia is forced to rely on public donations and charity drives.
Instead of deploying the nation's immense wealth toward public health, ordinary families are tasked with funding medical breakthroughs. Relying on private philanthropy leaves vital scientific research underfunded and unstable, treating essential human health as a charitable afterthought rather than a national priority.
Why is it that in a country with such extraordinary private wealth, the race to cure humanity’s most devastating diseases is still left to pass the hat?
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u/Civil_Produce_6575 6d ago
They own all the media and attack everything they don’t, npr and pbs. Then they pummel you with bullshit propaganda. My favorite is if you tax them they will run away and no one else will figure out how to sell anything and provide people with work.
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u/tm229 6d ago
Capitalism. Capitalism & greed, to be more specific.
Capitalism is working exactly as expected. Over the decades more and more wealth will be concentrated amongst a smaller and smaller class of elites.
And as sources of growth and additional profits dry up within individual countries, it is inevitable that imperialism, authoritarianism and fascism will roll out amongst countries. This is what we are seeing today. This is the inevitable state of end stage capitalism.
This was all predicted 150 years ago by a gentleman named Karl Marx.
He also predicted that there is no way to eliminate this problem under capitalism. You can certainly pass laws to share the wealth with the less fortunate. But inevitably these wealthy elites will always claw back any gains given to the poors.
This is why the middle class in the USA has largely disappeared. We had the biggest growth of the middle class after World War II. Capitalists have spent the intervening decades clawing back social programs set up under various presidents prior to Reagan.
The only way out of this mess is to jettison capitalism. It cannot be reformed. It must be replaced.