You know what, you’re right. ‘Le capitalism bad’. Now what? What the fuck do you propose? Get us to the revolution man. C’mon. Let’s go. I’m ready! Let’s goooooo. Tell us what to do next! I’m listening.
Edit: wait, so I’m asking what we should do about it and I’m getting downvotes? I thought capitalism was bad. Shouldn’t we DO something about it? Or is it just performative for you guys? Pedal to the metal. Put up or shut up. Let’s do this. I’m ready…let’s GOOOO
The reason nobody is engaging with you is because you’re clearly completely brainrotted and arguing in bad faith.
You want a fucking answer, shithead? It starts with the dictatorship of the proletariat, a true democracy. That starts with strong worker unions. That starts with universal healthcare untied to employment. Better education for the people in a world shifting largely to trades and higher education instead of menial data entry or service jobs. Elimination of FPTP elections.
All things that can be easily accomplished via legislation, TODAY without total societal upheaval.
Now are you gonna help achieve that by attending city council meetings and voting for leftist parties so they can get increasing levels of federal election funding?
No, you’re not. You’re just going to reply with some bullshit degenerate rant that makes no logical sense about how you love fascism and having a foot in your mouth.
So shut the fuck up, shove it up your ass, and go fuck yourself you fucking piece of shit.
You just wrote more vacuous stuff. “CHANGE LEGISLATION”. I like all the points you brought up actually. Unions, fptp, Universal healthcare. These are all great! I’m on board. Now what? Walk us through the process. Or maybe you feel more comfortable doing more grandstanding? Via that’s all I see here on Lemmy. Two things: attack capitalism; grandstand.
Let’s try this one more time: Can you give us a concrete roadmap to effective change?
Lots of things, you never privatize critical services like water, electricity, and healthcare. And if you do privatize it, you do so with strong regulation.
You focus on worker co-ops and never allow a company to have less than 50% of the board of the directors made up of workers (see Germany), this helps prevent short-term vulture capitalism.
You never allow private business to capture the legislature and literally hand laws to the congress they own who blindly passes it, the main way things happen in a dystopia like Murica.
Just realized I’m likely feeding the troll… you can do some reading, I’ve given you a starting place. You can Google democratic socialism as well, which might help as a general starting point.
I’m not a troll but you’re just rehashing things we all already agree on. Show us the roadmap to change beyond virtue signaling on message boards. Let’s talk about more nuanced effective change rather than grandstand constantly with the same three topical catchphrase. I need more than “capitalism bad”.
I’m glad you’re past capitalism bad. But it’s a critical message that the majority don’t get. For example, in the US we have two capitalist parties with nearly identical fiscal policies. There’s no party to vote for that isn’t the problem with respect to fiscal policy and economic principles.
Thus, one thing you can do is work on the people who don’t understand all the problems we have that are the direct result of capitalism. Sharing information, helping them understand the linkages between their day to day struggles, and thst our system is literally the root of it.
Another is to join or found a labor union at your workplace. There is a lot of opportunity to organize and get people involved.
If you’re more just looking for how to prepare for the likely collapse, there are groups like the SRS Socialist Rifle Association. There’s every possibility that capitalism will collapse the US.
You can join a third party or the democratic local group around you and try to move their policies and stances to the left and away from capitalism. I personally don’t have a lot of faith in the system atm. But I prefer anything to collapse and possible civil war.
You could even google this stuff yourself? I think I’ve been really generous on your “I’m angry, spoon feed me.” If you don’t mean it that way, then take it as constructive criticism.
The next step is start voting for capitalism bad politicians.
Those politicians dont exist unless they think thats a platform that could get votes with.
They measure that by how much people talk about that and poll about that as a positive topic they support.
People dont poll about ideas they dont know or understand.
People learn and better understand political views by talking about them.
Unless youre asking for a violent revolution, this is how you start this conversation. By talking to people about it.
If you are asking for a violent revolution, thats your own bag. Thats not a step 2 to be egging other people into.
Boeing and Airbus aren’t really “regulatory capture” situations. They’re basically state monopolies, and the EU and US have been suing each other for decades for unlawful competition lmao
Also they both have a HUGE defense sector that is completely tied to state policy.
Honestly the most capitalistic part about them is that everybody pretends that they’re private companies operating in a free market (because that’s a politically convenient lie in a neoliberal global economy), but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Their Defense contracts are State-Funded, and their aviation R&D is State-Funded. De facto, I’d argue they are public companies.
Unfortunately part of Boeing’s problem is that they are being slowly outcompeted by Airbus, but the U.S. government cannot let them fail. Not (only) because of corruption, but simply because Boeing’s industrial capacity is crucial to the defense sector and cannot be allowed to perish or be sold off to a foreign competitor. That political reality exists independently of who sits at Boeing’s board of directors, so changing it without doing anything about the politics might not yield appreciable results (at least not in the short term).
My take that the company should be officially nationalized and/or broken up, but both of those are political non-starters for the U.S.
I’m reading a lot of “you do” which is actually “your society should do” and which the average person has very little say in. I’m not going to be able to just march into congress and inform them that they are no longer allowed to deal with private businesses, no matter how much I may want to.
