« Reply #25393 on: July 20, 2023, 02:49:06 PM »
Our economic system is based on greed. So is every other economic system. It's a human trait, and it isn't worse today than in the past.
It is worse than the past,many of the 1% ers already well off collared the Government( and Conglomerates) into allowing themselves to acrue even more at the expense of a dwindling middle class that once enjoyed good incomes from healthy companies. But the creeps that ran those companies shipped the jobs elsewhere but didn't lose their windfalls and write offs that came with them. Left a hole in the taxbase also.Watched them do it in both the steel and automotive industries. happened to textiles before that. And their wealth falls to their descendants along with the accomadating writeoffs. They act like they slayed some evil ne'er do-wells who dared demand a decent wage as barons make off with billions that they hardly needed. As 94 said - I weep for the future. If you can manipulate markets or grab government contracts you're in like Flynn ability and ethics be damned
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