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Well I encourage you to look into why it is that people don't actually have the ability to stand up and defend the rights, and the futures of others.
Hint: the answer begins with C, ends in M, and the former USA is a textbook perfect example of how it ends.
To be fair, capitalism itself isn't exactly it. It's unbridled capitalism. But because the people who benefit most from unbridled capitalism will spend a bunch of their excess money convincing people like you unbridled capitalism is just the best.....we end up here.
Here's the problem I see with your perspective. We do have regulatory processes, we do have access to democratic processes, we do have freedom of expression, we do have civil rights. People instead choose to invest themselves in bipartisanship. I don't see how your argument holds up. Our country has things like gerrymandering that corrupt the process, but on a basic level... people don't care.
I think you're wearing star spangled tinted glasses if you really believe everything you just wrote. I believe you have the illusion of those things, nothing more.
I encourage you to read about the "dual state" theory which is absolutely spot on in my opinion.
From my perspective, you are likely an example of someone who was successfully convinced capitalism is infallible by the people who benefit by far the most.
You'd be wrong.
I read it. The problem I see with your theory is that we do in actuality have a complacent working/lower/middle class.
I'm not denying we live basically in a two tiered system. I just think it's largely due to the complacency of people. I think regardless of the label of economic policy we put on a country, if people aren't willing to step up and defend their rights to prosperity, to fight corruption, ultimately it doesn't matter. Any system can be gamified, and manipulated, and corrupted.
If I were a capitalist as you're suggesting, I'd be operating on the assumption that 'the market will fix this' or that property ownership trumps all. I don't believe that to be the case.
I personally believe that we're teetering and already falling past the edge of social prosperity. I think we're seeing the transition into Neo-feudalism. I think colonialism and industrialization created a ungovernable expansion of wealth, and that's the only real reason we have the rights and freedoms we do. I think the Nazi's, the holocaust, and the world wars made fascism/authoritarianism unpopular for a brief period of time, and that time is quickly coming to an end. I'm hopeful that AI might give some reprieve, but it could also make things worse than ever.