Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "How Britain Became a Poor Country" video.
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Well when you let the rich and big business take everything, ie; an ever-growing outrageous disproportionate share, and refuse to fund basic needs properly, sadly this is what you get.
It's been SOP in the US as long as I've been alive with all predictable negative and disastrous results.
Some people are doing very well but I would say at least half the country is insecure or poor, possibly more. I would say up to 70% live paycheck to paycheck with few savings.
And all this because a psychopathic tiny elite want everything, and they control the political discourse, via both Wall Street parties. (GOP and Democrats)
I think it's a shame that worthless selfish sociopathic people are still driving public policy via literal bribery to PACs and promises of future favor. It's the simplest thing in the world to end all poverty and provide equal opportunity to all, it just takes the political will. You literally HAVE to tax at the top and you redistribute downwards, and then you ensure basic needs are always properly funded in the future via fair tax policy and material guarantees enumerated under law. Providing actual job security, home security, food security, guaranteed medical treatment, better wages and labor protections, guaranteed education, public transport, some form of UBI and more.
The resources are there and then some, it's just getting them to where they're needed. But that's never going to happen when big business and the psychopathic 1% of private wealth gets to dictate everything.
Only a dictatorship of the people would ensure everyone had enough while also allowing business to operate within proper confines of heavy regulation (mostly directed at bigger business).
Also, federal governments literally create their own money, so no central government can ever claim they don't have money and be telling the truth. UK, like the US, creates its own currency. It can print more or digitally create more as needed. So I don't understand where this claim of having no money comes from- all currency-independent nation-states produce their own currency, or they can tax it, or they can borrow it. The money is always there somewhere but when these elite scum don't want to step on the toes of other elite scum, I guess they feel that they can't spend or raise anything. This of course is ridiculous because that ignores the reality of the federal Mint, or whatever the equivalent is in the UK. I mean where do people think the physical currency comes from in the first place???
Obviously all the money in circulation has come from somewhere, it didn't come from a goddamn money fairy, so where did it come from?? Obviously it came from whatever central authority prints money in that given country. Up to a point a country can for the most part print its way out of any economic problem. As currency is just a point of exchange for goods and services and labor man-hours, provided the amount of printing doesn't get super ridiculous, pumping more currency into a nation by funding worthwhile needs and increasing direct benefits will only help a population.
True, there have been very limited cases where central govt spending went awry but these were extremely rare and due to very specific conditions; which are not at all the case with the US and the UK today. "But Zimbabwe and Weimar Germany" are idiotic examples when compared to today's secure established major Western countries. (But don't take my word for it, feel free to look it up yourself)
While there might be some limited and modest cost increases by some merchants in response to perceived extra income by consumers, these tend to be transitory, cyclical, and relatively manageable.
Usually it's big business corps that are choosing to raise prices or gouge consumers when they feel they can get away with it, regardless of any pre-existing localized or national economic conditions. The only way to really stop this are laws and legislation, which never happen here in the US because big business owns every politician. Both parties here are but one single Wall Street party with two heads.
And until that changes, until we get government that puts average people's needs first, aka a Left government, then the parasitic 1% will continue to claim the right to serve their unlimited greed, and poverty will continue to plague the lives of more and more of the common population.
It's the same story everywhere. Refuse to limit business and 1% greed, watch poverty and avoidable death claim more lives. It really is incredibly simple when you boil it down. That's all fine of course with the elites, but it shouldn't be fine by us. Any average income or poor person that votes Tory or centrist in the UK, or for either of the two Wall Street parties here in the US and isn't already super financially secure, is a moron. They keep on voting for the same people who have no intention of doing anything to help them and will actively harm them through their tenure, one way of another. It's quite amazing to me actually.
I guess people think that government should be of, by, and FOR the elites and 60% of the population should have to live hand to mouth or with a very little actual security, all so the top 2% can live like kings and gods. I can't understand why everyone isn't a pro-fair trade communist like me. A lifetime of propaganda I guess.
I don't understand the logic behind thinking we should be ruled and impoverished by a parasitical 2% and this is good.
Humans are strange.
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