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kleinbl00  ·  3191 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The chart conservatives *have* to debunk

Not at all. Even Adam Smith thought the market needed to be regulated. Any time you see a concentration of wealth you will see negative effects for those without concentrated wealth.

Unfortunately, the entire study of economics is one long riff of "don't hate the playa hate the game." And the whole discussion here is that productivity is a really poor metric to judge quality of life by. Those on the side of the worker are going to rally behind this and try and get more of the proletariat to vote. Those on the side of the owner are going to shovel money into campaigning so that the proletariat gets kept in its place.

And that, my friend, is politics.





am_Unition  ·  3191 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Those on the side of the owner are going to shovel money into campaigning so that the proletariat gets kept in its place.

Campaigns so successful that they've got the proletariat funneling money into deluding itself.

War  ·  3191 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, I know the political side of things pretty well. The only thing is long-term sustainability is more of a concern when referring to states. Business practices in no way translates well to state practices, but sadly political systems are rapidly morphing into businesses...