Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Heated Debate On Capitalism with America’s Most Prominent Marxist Economist - Richard Wolff" video.

  1. Richard Wolff should learn a little about Nature and the Pareto Distribution. It doesn't matter how you structure things, what your hierarchy is... There will always be a small number of individuals in the population who benefit far more than the rest of the population. There's one elk/seal/lobster getting the biggest harem. Viewing human society as an extension of Nature (We ARE PART OF NATURE.), we see that the big difference between socialist and free-market systems is that there are a lot more people doing very well - comfortably well - for themselves; whereas in a socialist setup, there is a very small number of extremely privileged people, most of them in government, but a few favored industrialists right up there with them. Crony capitalism isn't a free-market thing. It's a STATIST thing, where rich and powerful people are given unfair advantage over everybody else, through the use of government force. I call it fascism, but fascism is just another form of collectivism/socialism. It doesn't necessarily nationalize industry. It just does the next best thing, which is control what, how, and when anything it singles out for its attention is made. Weapons industry is a biggie. By its nature, it's fascist, because it's contracting directly with government. It's also the only thing in the U.S. Constitution that's allowed. And even then, the founders of the USA wanted strong citizen militias as an essential part of our common defense. Yeah, we still need a professional army. And making sure it's run, properly, should be about the only thing we're worried about on the federal level. But the military budget ("defense" budget) is less than half of what the federal government does, these days. And there's no way to oversee it all. Bad enough we have an army!
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