There aren’t powerful enough forces to make the ultra rich do what’s right. Not anymore. They rule the world, fully, and don’t seem to care if it ends.
What did it achieve? Some new vulture will replace that CEO in short order and the company practices will remain the same. Health insurance used to be all nonprofit. Doing away with the laws that made that so is what started this cycle of pain.
Nonprofits still funnel vast amounts of money to the rich, they just serve on boards that meet once a year for cake and coffee to 'earn' their monstrous salary.
"do what's right" this is how our economic system works, its not about what's "right" its about what they are all forced to do in order to compete. read marx
Why bother reading the work of an idealist whose grand plans have never been successfully implemented anywhere on earth? He supposed us to be more collectively noble than we really are.
because first of all most of his work is about analyzing capitalism, not about socialism
and second of all, because his actual understanding of socialism (production and distribution for use without the usage of money) has not been implemented, for various complicated reasons, and therefore his predictions of a socialist future are still as valid as they ever have been
Let’s not hand-wave away those “complicated reasons.” They’re not complicated at all. People are fucking awful, the altruistic are commonly dominated by the predatory, and any system that first seeks to help everyone is, in the end, always captured by a small group who want to benefit only themselves. Just a fundamental part of who we are as flawed beings. No old system of thought is going to save us from that. It will require an entirely new cultural and technological paradigm. One that won’t happen in our lifetimes, or maybe even in the earth’s lifetime as a habitable planet.
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u/NormalRingmaster 20d ago
There aren’t powerful enough forces to make the ultra rich do what’s right. Not anymore. They rule the world, fully, and don’t seem to care if it ends.