03-13-2018, 02:08 PM
(03-13-2018, 01:39 PM)fredtoast Wrote: We have to have a capitalist economic system. Competition is the key to innovation and efficiency. But we can't have the system weighted to heavily in favor of the elite because that will result in a tiny fraction of the population seizing all of the power and wealth.
Exploitation and oppression at the hands of the wealthy is just as bad as exploitation and oppression at the hands of a tyrannical government.
I don't disagree that a competitive market is the key to many things, and most sensible folks would be in the same position. However, the degree to which government is involved with certain things is the big debate. How much should the government work to make the scales less uneven? Universal basic income? Social programs like the Nordic system? Or should regulatory attempts like what we do in the United States be the only thing?
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
