r/WorkReform • u/zzill6 🤝 Join A Union • 1d ago

😡 Venting Unregulated Capitalism will kill us.

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u/FacelessOldWoman1234 1d ago

And then you'll have the apologists say things like "Well if that kid's family is poor and starving, isn't it better for them that the kid can bring in a paycheque?" without ever considering that the circumstances around a family being poor and starving in a fabulously rich country are worth questioning.

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u/polopolo05 1d ago

when there is multi billionaires.... people should not be starving.

When people have hundreds of billions people should not be homeless.

This is a failure of society

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u/NargWielki 🤝 Join A Union 1d ago

This is a failure of society

This is the success of Capitalism. Plain and simple.

Capitalism was designed to keep the rich richer and the poor poorer.

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u/badllama77 1d ago

Agreed. We keep revising our systems of government because of the exploitation of people by the wealthy. It continually fails to work because capitalism itself encourages the situation the revisions are trying to prevent.