Finance
Insurance
Real
Estate...the moneyed class made sure that commerce always benefits their own rent-seeking intermediation first...
Well, if the workers owned the means of production...
I always want people to realize the true difference in communism and capitalism is that capitalism replaces “the people” with “the 1%” and then they’re interchangeable in everything else. Unfortunately it’s more like 0.01% if we’re being realistic.
The big difference is whether you believe some people are born to be less than others or not, that's literally the right vs left.
Capitalism is squarely a right wing economic system as there are people born with inherent advantages, more power, from the standpoint of capital simply better. The only reason capitalism affords some sort of upwards social mobility is because of leftist policies, laws, regulations.
Might of the middleman leads to the plight of the professionals.
My wife works in a higher-end memory care center as a caregiver, and I can confirm they don't pay nearly enough.
Capitalism is full of contradictions!? No way!! /s
The common denominator is taxes. There is this unit circle visual that shows half of your work value taken from you directly by taxes, and prices are twice what they want to be (indirectly paying others taxes)... so an individual "feels" only 1/4 economic effectiveness, or 3/4 oppressed.
*Half of what is left after the CEO and shareholders take their cut. Taxes are a drop in the ocean compared to the excess labor value that is extracted before you even see a penny.
Cool, now how much of your work value is taken by people who did nothing but invest the generational wealth they got from their great great grandad laying claim to common natural resources? Surely that's the bigger concern since it goes to rich peoples' yachts instead of public services.
Lmao, no. Not without sources.
I would love to see the math behind that. Typically it's a case where someone is effectively paying 25% of their income to taxes, but because they are too lazy to actually understand how taxes work they are easily convinced it's well over 50%
Yes, the famous oppression of roads, schools, non-for-profit admin, and health care.
