Comments by "Michael RCH" (@michaelrch) on "Inside a call centre on cost of living crisis frontline" video.

Meanwhile there are more billionaires in the U.K. than ever before. Such obscene wealth at the top is a failure of politics, a failure of the economic system and failure of democracy. We need radical change. Now.
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@Dubya-i3v nice to see that full blown misanthropy in all its repellent glory. Don't hide your hatred of people. It makes your ideas all the more easy to reject.
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@Jamesy Boy No they don't. That isn't how the economy works. There is history before neoliberalism you know, before governments gave up trying to maintain some kind of control of capitalism. The best period of growth and progress for the US and Europe was the period after WW2 when taxes on the rich and corporations were high, inequality was a fraction of what it is now and families could survive on the income from one parent working. Unemployment was low, unionisation was high and living standards were high. Billionaires only exist because they are taking an obscene share of the value from the labour of the people who actually work.
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@saturationstation1446 You will get no argument from me that Europe and the US owe their advantages over the rest of the world to a history of grotesque exploitation of the people and resources of the global south. That didn't require capitalism but capitalism supercharged it.
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