Comments by "Sandy Clarke" (@sandyclarke6685) on "Bernie Sanders"
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I get the sentiment behind this kind of messaging, but it's getting stale. The reality is that most people don't really care. They don't. Demonstrated by the fact that Trump is now on his way to a second term, populism is on the rise, the EU is floundering, and China is fast becoming the new Superpower. I recall a former economics lecturer telling the class, "So long as just enough people have just enough, there will be little incentive for change." And, as Milton Friedman said, "Show me a society that wasn't built/didn't thrive on greed?" I'm not saying I agree with these messages but they're pretty difficult to refute and I'm sorry but nobody is going to make Musk or Bezos or any other rich person pay their "fair share" in taxes or toe the line in whatever equity game you're trying to play. At best, it gives people like Bernie Sanders a platform to remain relevant. Grievances will always have an audience where victims and injustice are the main themes. But nothing will change. The people who are able to thrive or at least do reasonably well, will. But there will always be people who struggle to make ends meet. It's sad and in an ideal world there would exist viable equity among people, but it's simply not a dream that will be realised. Again, demonstrated by the fact that people like Bernie have been attempting to create "radical change" for decades and decades. How much closer to that radical change are we? People are driven mainly by self-interest and so long as they can survive and get by, that's all that counts. The people who read Das Kapital forget the other side read it, too, and they know how to game the system in their favour while keeping the population sedated and compliant.
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