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I cannot entertain any arguments besides rich vs poor when we have arguably the worst income inequality ever. Not that there aren't problems with the "bureaucracy" you mention, but fundamentally these are your friends and coworkers, while billionaires are not. I think your priorities are inverted.

It is always about rich vs poor first because we live in a material world. Everything else is secondary and downstream. I think the wool has been pulled over your eyes by rich con men.

Fundamentally doomed arguing within the existing status quo when we should be moving towards something different entirely seeing as capitalism has served its purpose of seeding the economy ages ago, and now we are 'over the hump' so to speak as we watch wealth concentrate further and its effects.

So long as we live inside a permanent growth mindset anything and everything will be doomed. It makes no sense to live in a system that still rewards rarity rather than celebrating ubiquity, which we cannot escape if the resources we've been seeded with continue to concentrate.

It is and has always been labour vs capital.

> capitalism has served its purpose of seeding the economy ages ago, and now we are 'over the hump' so to speak as we watch wealth concentrate further and its effects.

I think capitalism as a system is capable of serving the general public.

The bigger problem has been that every Republican administration in my lifetime has passed huge tax cuts for the wealthy and both parties have allowed significant consolidation while also falling all over themselves to bail out big business whenever they got in trouble (often due to their own irresponsibility) while wagging their fingers at regular people suffering the downstream effects.

> The bureaucracy is all encompassing; it's in the military industry, healthcare industry, education industry, the consulting industry, and of course, the government.

I wonder why you didn't mention the energy industry. Hmmm.

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary?cycle=2024&in...

are you okay?

Assuming you're correct, Elon Musk and Donald Trump are about the least qualified individuals in the America to resist them.

We need accountable politicians, not businessmen and property moguls running things.

They were all on stage together during the inauguration. The take down of barely there social programs so that the rich can keep more of their money to loan to you at usurious rates. Why else would Elon Musk be doing it himself. There has to be a lot of upside for him we only see the downside but he sees a bigger picture as far as his finances.

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