Oh, how dare I complain about the widening inequality in this country! Please let’s just go down the same road as the US so we can have Clive Palmer hire a bunch of college kids to cut costs everywhere.
In the USA, the founding fathers who wrote the constitution and founded the country were a bunch of college aged kids. That argument doesn’t work. They’re also not the ones cutting costs, they’re getting all the data and reporting it so Trump and his advisors can decide what to cut.
Widening inequality by itself isn’t just a bad thing that needs fixing. Rich people have more money to get more rich. That’s just how money works.
That’s how capitalism works without government intervention, until the wealthy are so wealthy they buy all assets and our politicians, yes. Eventually capitalism will eat democracy if you let it.
You can have the Scandinavian model where the worst externalities are counteracted by government (with high taxes, no privatisation of important public services, etc).
Ok you just gave yourself away lol.
The “rich” pay the overwhelmingly large majority of all the taxes in the country.
Oh, how dare I complain about the widening inequality in this country! Please let’s just go down the same road as the US so we can have Clive Palmer hire a bunch of college kids to cut costs everywhere.
In the USA, the founding fathers who wrote the constitution and founded the country were a bunch of college aged kids. That argument doesn’t work. They’re also not the ones cutting costs, they’re getting all the data and reporting it so Trump and his advisors can decide what to cut.
Widening inequality by itself isn’t just a bad thing that needs fixing. Rich people have more money to get more rich. That’s just how money works.
That’s how capitalism works without government intervention, until the wealthy are so wealthy they buy all assets and our politicians, yes. Eventually capitalism will eat democracy if you let it.
“Eventually”. Cool.
Is there a better system than capitalism? Nope.
You can have the Scandinavian model where the worst externalities are counteracted by government (with high taxes, no privatisation of important public services, etc).