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In reply to the discussion: The Probelm With Capitalism [View all]Sapient Donkey
(1,568 posts)but I have made a few attempts in the past. It's been awhile so I cannot recall the specifics, but I remember thinking how I'm pretty sure of so-called conservative capitalists read some of what he wrote, they would have called him a communist or something. I should go through that and take notes this time.
I find it weird how so many non-wealthy people on the right are so hard headed with a twisted belief that greedy behavior by the wealthy is somehow good for the regular folk. Even if we take government out the equation by focusing on letting the free market do its thing, such as when Walmart employees were protesting for Walmart to raise wages (not asking for a higher government mandated minimum wage, but asking Walmart to) Many on the right were chastising these Walmart employees, calling them lazy or ungrateful, etc.. This was before Walmart made any wage increases, so people were making even lower wages than they are now. I couldn't understand why they would be against people having the value of their labor increase along with the inflation and cost of living increases. Another thing was the criticism from the right of that business owner in Seattle who said he was going to raise his company's minimum wage to $75k/yr or something. The amount of backlash that a private company got for increasing their wages made no sense. Why would they want that to fail?
Oh and then there is this: https://thefederalist.com/2021/06/10/my-chipotle-bowl-just-got-more-expensive-and-its-the-federal-governments-fault/
That twisted mindset leads to a lot of our problems, I think.
I'm ranting. Sorry.