Nebraska meatpacker forced to hire to Americans
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I agree with you, but too many people, here and elsewhere, who claim to be red pilled, still cling too hard to the libertarian and judeo-capitalist propaganda.
They haven't made the connection between many of the ills we're seeing today and the evils of the prioritization of money above all other considerations. They don't see the connection between mammonism, banking, usury, money printing, and inflation, as integral aspects of capitalism. They see the evils of monopolies and trusts, of CEOs treating their employees like crap, lobbying politicians, and intentionally bringing in cheap foreigners and outsourcing labor, of corporations building obsolescence into their products to force people to consume more, of corporations designing their products to prevent people from working on their own property, of death spiraling competition to use cheaper and cheaper garbage, of wage stagnation since the 70s but productivity climbing every year, of job prerequisites climbing every year but pay and benefits aren't, of quality dropping while cost increases, of the connection between feminism, the declining birth rates, and corporate interests to push women into the workforce to depress wages even more, etc...but they don't connect it to the intrinsic aspect of capitalism, of prioritizing money above all else, thinking that these evils are only due to an amorphous "corruption" that's hurting the system, wholly separate from it, and not tied to the system itself.
They erroneously think that if you oppose capitalism, then it automatically makes you a socialist or communist. They still think in terms of false dichotomies and within the limited confines of the curated and censored globohomo propaganda. They still think that capitalism invented concepts like private property, or supply and demand, or private ownership of production, or free market competition, as if these concepts magically sprouted up when the term "capitalism" was invented, and haven't existed for thousands of years.
I've similarly tried to warn them, with limited success. Apparently this is one lesson where they need to be punched in the face, repeatedly, by their own mistaken beliefs, in order to realize the truth.
You, also, do not understand what capitalism is. And all "solutions" to capitalism invariably involve government control of economy, which is what creates the very problems you're bitching about. You can't use the source of corruption to stop corruption.
We DO NOT HAVE a free market capitalist system, and have not for a very long time.
On the contrary, I know exactly what capitalism is. It's you that doesn't know, much like many other things you don't know, going by your account history.
Capitalism at its very core and foundations, is the pursuit and prioritization of money, above all other interests and considerations, even over the well being of the people, the workers, and the nation. Every other imaginary and presumed benefit or attribute of capitalism, has been in existence for thousands of years prior. I mentioned them, explicitly, in my previous comment. Here, let me just copy/paste for you again:
Here's tracking of the use of the term "capitalism":
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=capitalism&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3
Notice how it only became widely used in the 1900s, centuries after the formation of the U.S., and millennia after numerous nations utilized all the attributes falsely attributed to capitalism?
Government corrupts things, as well as corporate corruption corrupts things. You're trying to paint a false picture, that only government, and concentration of power within government, can corrupt things. You're missing the entirety of history where uber rich aristocracy and corporate leaders levied their power to enrich themselves at the detriment of the people. By your logic, no corporation has ever been corrupted, except by government meddling. It's a blatantly false argument that is incredibly easily disproven by even a cursory understanding of history.
Money corrupts. Concentration of power corrupts, regardless of where it's concentrated.
This is true, but we shouldn't even want laissez faire capitalism. It would be just as dystopic as government tyranny. Since money should not, and isn't, the highest priority, government, if it be healthy, should absolutely reign in the corruptions of capitalism. What do you think anti monopoly and anti trust laws are? They're no longer enforced, because of corporate lobbying to Congress. And, Congress abides by this lobbying, because Congress is manipulated by the same false priority as the corporate CEOs: money.
But, thank you for confirming all of what I said in my previous comment, of people who claim to be red pilled are utterly blind to the evils of capitalism, and think that if you're against capitalism in any way, you're automatically socialist or communist.
You failed the IQ test. Small government with no protections shielding corporate misbehavior is better than large government that is inevitably corrupted. Pure laissez faire is a nonstarter the same as communism, but implying REEEE CPAITALISM BAD because of corporate corruption that is enabled by government is stupidity.
Like I said, you don't know what the word means.
That's not at all what I said, and you know it. You are, again, proving how disingenuous you are, and reaffirming every single negative attribute I stated about people like you who blindly defend capitalism.