Posted on 06/28/2016 5:00:42 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
In an apparent rejection of the basic principles of the U.S. economy, a new poll shows that most young people do not support capitalism.
The Harvard University survey, which polled young adults between ages 18 and 29, found that 51 percent of respondents do not support capitalism. Just 42 percent said they support it.
It isn't clear that the young people in the poll would prefer some alternative system, though. Just 33 percent said they supported socialism. The survey had a margin of error of 2.4 percentage points.
The results of the survey are difficult to interpret, pollsters noted. Capitalism can mean different things to different people, and the newest generation of voters is frustrated with the status quo, broadly speaking.
All the same, that a majority of respondents in Harvard University's survey of young adults said they do not support capitalism suggests that today's youngest voters are more focused on the flaws of free markets.
"The word 'capitalism' doesn't mean what it used to," said Zach Lustbader, a senior at Harvard involved in conducting the poll, which was published Monday. For those who grew up during the Cold War, capitalism meant freedom from the Soviet Union and other totalitarian regimes. For those who grew up more recently, capitalism has meant a financial crisis from which the global economy still hasn't completely recovered.
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If economic activity were to become centered around communities, a lot of that would change.
What do you expect when the government schools don’t teach these morons what capitalism is, especially compared to other economic systems. Notice they didn’t know enough to say which alternative system they preferred.
Thank you, teachers.
‘From Within’.
And if trends mean anything, in Mexico, the Cuban volunteers who come to this country deal more in the politics of community economics rather than academic standards of math and science. Probably that trend of youth not belieiving in a Free Market System is even higher in Mexico. People want to empower the State.
Bush the gift that keeps on giving. He’s the worst president when trying to brag about republican policy. He’s done more damage to this country then we know. It will take decades for us to recover the reputation of conservatives being fiscal responsible and not war trigger happy.
Why would the 42% who support capitalism rise to the top of the government and why are would that be unfortunate?
What a post!
I didn’t know Canada Air had such an advertisement back in the day.
Can you imagine if a company tried such a thing today, even tongue-in-cheek?
Media, Academia and social justice warriors would Howl and rampage.
Commies won the battle while we were complacently enjoying “The Peace dividend”.
They’ve been brainwashed with Liberal propaganda since Kindergarten by design.
1983 “A Nation At Risk” - A President Reagan subcommittee report.
“...If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking, unilateral educational disarmament...”
FYI: The Childrens’ Story by James Clavell (author of Shogun and Nobel House)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C1IV00LLDQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Va0b0tL1M&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojxtz-9vSr8&feature=related
Top 10 Hourly Wage Equivalent Welfare States in U.S.
State Hourly Wage Equivalent
Hawaii $17.50
Alaska $15.48
Massachusetts $14.66
Connecticut $14.23
Washington, D.C. $13.99
New York $13.13
New Jersey $12.55
Rhode Island $12.55
California $11.59
Virginia $11.11
Fk’n morons! I had Commie teachers in high school and I rejected Communism; albeit, I read Ayn Rand and some Conservative books on the Soviet Union earlier.
Majority don’t know what capitalism or socialism is all about
I wish I could cast a magic spell that would make this generations’ parents immediately cease to support them financially in any way, shape or form.....Many of these anti-Capitalists are still suckling at Mom/Dad’s teat...
What is interesting is that many millenials are out there creating things, be it apps for smart phones, new tech, fun stuff, but these same people don’t understand economics. They create, build, do, things I never dreamed of, but eschew Capitalism because it’s a bad word in their vocabulary. They’re living it, but say they hate it.
What’s good for Wall Street is not ALWAYS good for America.
Many times it is. But not always. The fact that our elected representatives have allowed themselves to be bribed into doing the bidding of Wall Street on EVERY issue, whether it was in the long run good for the country or not, for 3+ decades, has created this mindset.
There is now going to be an overcorrecting backlash and they are all going to reap the whirlwind.
Unfortunately these people have never been exposed to real capitalism in their lives.
What else would you expect?
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