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Same here (Switzerland) but i disagree: inequality gets worse here too and a ceiling is the effective measure against it. We didn't fix capitalism, we only slowed it down a bit.
Sadly, initiatives have to explain complex relationships against "but then the rich fucks leave; less jobs!" and so even taxing inheritance over a certain value lost. Yet again.
Guess that's a weakness of democracies.
A rising tide lifting all boats??? Nah Elon needs to tie three gold cybertrucks together to drive around or his pp cant be the big pp
The only thing that I think really needs to change is that it should be harder to get more wealthy past the point where the average person would say that you're wealthy.
That difficulty spike should be caused by an increase in taxes that you have to pay in order to accrue more wealth so that those taxes can be redirected to the less wealthy.
You can sail as high as you want to go, but you have to raise the tide along with you.
Then your wealthiness would match my ideal of what it means to be wealthy.
Social democratic gains in the first world are still built off exploited labor from the global South. Social democracy doesn't address imperialism.
It also contributes to the climate catastrophe by providing copious amounts of oil. It also enjoys the fruits of the exploitation in the Global South, hence it can redistribute said fruits of imperialism to its people, which is indeed better than the US oligarchs hoarding it all, but not by a lot.
We are a plutocracy, our government sold out long ago and is the most corrupt country of all time.
I know that they say it's actually pretty good and we are a rule of law country without a corruption problem, but unfortunately, that's because we've made corruption and bribery perfectly legal.
If you haven't done this yet, check out Super PACs, long story short it's a cash pipeline with laughably weak oversight, and everybody in government knows exactly why it legal.
In 1970s FBI did a bribery catfish of reps, mayors, and more, and almost half of them took the bait and many were convicted of bribery (ABSCAM).
Starting in 2000s, Super PACs allow unlimited funding and they don't have to declare who gave it to them. The FBI is now investigating furries instead of congress.
It's a madhouse.
You know that. And I know that.
But try telling that to 100 million poorly educated voters who think billionaires are acting in their best interests, and public goods of any kind are for poors and losers.
That, is the evil brilliance of Republican marketing.
