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To those that downvote my post without reading it: You can downvote this post, but not the truth -- because one day it will stand behind your own neck!

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The problem, IMHO is, that many educated people still don't see what is happening in real life. They dream the capitalistic dream of never ending wealth -- but capitalism never was crafted to make all people happy and it was even not crafted to make the diligent people happy, but it was crafted to make a few random people happy by taking from the rest.

Capitalism might be the best system crafted by humankind, but it is still a system, that is not sustainable and in today's form it brings us sooner or later back to the dark ages of industrialization.

You can see it first in the developing countries, where communities exist, where big corporations come, take the water sources away from the people and sell the water with big profits to the better of people in the big cities.

Days will come and have already come, that also in the western countries, many people (will) see, how capitalism is destroying those which created the wealth to give even more to those which own the wealth.

I've noticed that there are two groups that downvote posts like this on both tech forums and in general:

1) 25 year old software guys making $100K while their friends are at half that, possibly living at home.

2) Older people (i.e. Boomer generation).

The software guys in their 20's are doing alright - for the moment. In 10 years, they'll have hit the glass ceiling due to offshoring and H1Bs, while they're friends in marketing and business will have caught up in pay, and won't be nearly as disposable due to globalization in tech. Living in a shared apartment with the bro's won't work either, when kids, wife, etc. are taken into account.

The boomers, OTOH, really don't understand how things are much more difficult for younger generations. They had it made, and anyone who doesn't have what they got must be lazy and entitled.

You are very likely right in my opinion. There are still very many people, where the arguments that where spread from the Reagan/Thatcher era on, stick.

It is a seducing thinking, to have a simple explanation for the difficult questions in life, eg.: Why do people earn differently? It is so simple and seducing to be just able to say: "Hey, the others are just not diligent enough or not smart enough. The African/South-American people are just to corrupt and that is the reason, most of them live in poverty!"

Once I also belonged to those people that would have downvoted my posts, because I believed in the system. Today, several years later, I see the outcomes and also where this is leading us to. I also see, that there are no such simple answers to the questions and that exist.

The problem is, that I get the impression that humanity might not learn in the long term. We already had the industrialization era, where we thought, industry will make the world a better world, but it made the world a horror for so many people. We already had all these simple explanations -- but education does not stick, not more than 50 years.

What really haunts me, is that those politicians that harmed their countries most, are often those which are still the most popular ones. Those that really made a difference (or tried to) are forgotten much to fast.

Thank you very much, for your answer!

To be clear: what we have in the UK is not capitalism.

What is happening, is the ruling of the money over society.

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