Comments by "BlackFlagsNRoses" (@blackflagsnroses6013) on "Coffee Shop Raises Wages Despite $15/h Cancellation" video.

  1. The thing about the USA is that it is so blinded by Capitalism they actually believe it’s a system that can create freedom when the results are the complete opposite. Somehow people are lead to believe self-interests competing is beneficial to the greater society... and that individuals being able to accumulate exorbitant capital at the expense and exploitation of workers to be an ideal system for freedom. A system that creates disparities, socioeconomic classes, and a ruling elite of wealthy capitalists, and corporate donors. At it’s foundation the GOP had the support of the socialist organizations in the country. While Lincoln believed that the laborer can one day become a well off owner and employer, which is possible but completely not good enough for Social equality and freedom, he also believed capital should not be valued more than labor. I’m obviously against Capitalism as a systemic institution of oppression and coercion. But regardless America failed it’s working class immensely. The employers and corporations are valued over the worker, the opposite of what even Lincoln believed. Unionization was gutted, wages remained stagnant, and workers are made to live a life of living by paycheck. Living to work, working to live. And American government and parties are reluctant to even alleviate the burdens of the working class by declaring Social Democratic reform too radical and fantastical. Even though other developed nations enjoy such measures. America truly is a most avaricious country, and Capitalism has taken it’s people their Republic (natural Constitutional rights) and Democracy (public influence on the polity or government).
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