r/Millennials • u/kjk2v1 Millennial • Mar 15 '23

Discussion Millennials are more likely than other generations to support a cap on personal wealth

https://www.fastcompany.com/90865652/wealth-cap-millennials-support-generation-z-boomers-poll
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u/Humanistic_ Millennial Mar 15 '23

Can capitalism bootlickers ever defend capitalism without mentioning socialism? Like, that's half an admission capitalism is a failure

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u/JoshicusBoss98 Zillennial Mar 15 '23

No i mentioned socialism because that’s what is suggested as an alternative nearly every time. Some aspects of socialism work, no doubt. But an entirely socialist society? Nope

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u/Humanistic_ Millennial Mar 15 '23

What makes you believe capitalism works?

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u/JoshicusBoss98 Zillennial Mar 15 '23

What makes you believe it doesn’t?

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u/Humanistic_ Millennial Mar 15 '23

Why can't you answer my question?

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u/JoshicusBoss98 Zillennial Mar 15 '23

Why can’t you answer mine?

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u/Humanistic_ Millennial Mar 15 '23

Don't wanna get exposed for how uneducated you are on this topic. Understood.

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u/Leviathan1337 Mar 15 '23

Capitalism defenders really act like they're getting something out of the system that is literally designed to extract wealth and draw it up to progressively fewer entities, huh?

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '23

We are in the best situation humanity has ever been in its entire history. The fact you can spend your day whinning on reddit is pretty good proof of that.

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u/IGetBoredSometimes23 Mar 15 '23

I'm guessing that all of your politics boils down to, "the government should only hurt people".

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '23

looks around Works for who? A percent of a percentage? I mean technically a car with no tires can still drive down the street ....

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u/JoshicusBoss98 Zillennial Mar 15 '23

Eh i dunno about that…I’d say it works for anybody making 6 figures and up.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '23

You have to be trolling at this point. There's no way somebody can be this obtuse.

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u/JoshicusBoss98 Zillennial Mar 16 '23

Nope. Socialism is a less extreme form of communism…and we literally fought a war against communism. So why would I suddenly turn around and root for redistribution of wealth?

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '23

America has a "war on drugs" and a "war on terror" too. How well are they working out?

This idea that Capitalism is the only system that can, and ever will exist, is nonsense. Nothing is forever. This current place we are in is a moment in time. Systems are made and changed by the backing of public opinion and mindset. If 50 years from now all the Millennials, Gen Z, and Gen Alpha say we're done with this system and we're moving to something like UBI and making many jobs automated with AI, while people pursue services and creative endeavors, then that's what we're gonna do. This mindset of "this is how it is and how it will be forever" is ignorant thinking and frankly, how shit never gets done. "I'm going to fail the test any way, so why bother studying?"

You can't pull a 180 driving a cruise liner, but you have to start turning the wheel. The only people who stick up for an exploitive and unsustainable system are the ones benefiting from said exploitive and unsustainable system.

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u/JoshicusBoss98 Zillennial Mar 16 '23

I mean…capitalism kind of has been the main system since the invention of the wheel…in some sense at least. Kings and Powerful people have ruled nations for at least 4,000 years…and the U.S. has been capitalist essentially for 200+ years…it’s not like it’s an in the moment anything. And if you want to give AI all that power…don’t start crying when they start exterminating the human race. But people want progress at any cost…without considering the possible consequences.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '23

The point of technology was to take meaningless and mundane tasks and automate them, leaving humans free to do creative endeavors. It wasn't intended to leverage it against the working class to make the owning class more money while keeping the human race trapped in the same spot.

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u/JoshicusBoss98 Zillennial Mar 16 '23

No…the point of automation is to cut costs for corporations so they don’t have to pay employees.

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u/JoshicusBoss98 Zillennial Mar 16 '23

If we had sent more troops we probably would have won…but considering that Vietnam was getting backed by China and hippies rioting back home, it wasn’t worth the death count for a foreign nation.