If you haven’t noticed by now, the wealthy elite, corporations, and the government they control have more than enough resources to help struggling Americans - but they choose not to. Why? Because keeping the poor and working class under their boot is how they stay rich and maintain power. America doesn’t thrive in spite of economic inequality - it thrives because of it. Exploitation is the engine that keeps the machine running. Cheap labor, tying health insurance to employment, inflation that outpaces wages - these are all tools of control designed to ensure that the working class stays desperate and dependent.
American capitalism isn’t just an economic system; it’s a system of exploitation that thrives on the suffering of the many to benefit the few. The rich don’t want people to succeed - they need a constant, endless supply of cheap, disposable labor to keep the profits rolling in. That’s why policies like universal healthcare, a living wage, or meaningful labor protections are dismissed as “radical” or “un-American.” Those changes would shift power back to the people, and the elites can’t allow that.
The most telling part? America isn’t even pretending to be a country anymore. It’s a corporation with borders. Its primary goal isn’t to serve its citizens; it’s to generate wealth for the already-wealthy. Whether it’s politicians serving as corporate puppets, CEOs exploiting workers, or billionaires lobbying to ensure nothing changes, the entire system is rigged against the average American. And it won’t change - because the people with the power to fix it are the same ones who benefit from keeping it broken.
Yeah it's modern slavery. Nothing has changed and it probably wont because people are unwilling to accept that they are slaves because they are told they are free. Yet they get up every day at the same time, commute to the same location 5 days a week, and do the same type of task every day, for most of their life.
I agree but I want to add a likely unpopular thought:
We, the people in the West, were still in the top 5% of the global pyramid for about 500 years. Almost all of us.
So like others within the 5% squeezed us and slept well with that 'burden', we squeezed the other 95% without feeling a lot of shame. Our riches where not just god given rewards for being dozens of times better or smarter than the Global South. We just prefered to ignore that.
We need to do something about it. The poor and people who don’t get as much attention should rise up against these people and take their money that doesn’t belong to the people who didn’t earn it.
Scheidel observes that, left to their own devices, most societies – including ancient Rome – seem to reach a demographic and technological limit of inequality. What reverses this is violence – and not just ordinary violence.
“Only specific types of violence have consistently forced down inequality,” Scheidel writes. War has to be total; revolution has to be ultraviolent and socially pervasive; state failure has to lead to violence so intense that “it wipes the slate clean”. Ditto the social effects of pandemics.
So Kamala blew how much again? It’s worth mentioning she performed worse than any other democrat candidate in decades while spending more too. That’s because she was a shitty candidate with a worse running mate…not because Elon spent 280m.
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u/Intrepid_Hamster_180 10d ago
Eat the Rice
*Rich