Posted on 03/12/2018 4:27:51 PM PDT by grundle
Washington Post writer Elizabeth Bruenig recently wrote this opinion column.
She writes,
“I think the problem lies at the root of the thing, with capitalism itself.”
Capitalism merely means that property is privately owned. So she has a problem with private ownership of property.
She writes,
“Americans appear to be isolated, viciously competitive, suspicious of one another and spiritually shallow; and that we are anxiously looking for some kind of attachment to something real and profound in an age of decreasing trust and regard — seem to be emblematic of capitalism.”
I think these are things of human nature, and would exist regardless of the kind of economic system that we had.
She says that capitalism
“… encourages and requires fierce individualism, self-interested disregard for the other.”
I wonder how many repeat customers a business would have if the business owner had “disregard” for those customers.
She writes,
“As a business-savvy friend once remarked: Nobody gets rich off of bilateral transactions where everybody knows what they’re doing.”
When I buy a loaf of bread at the supermarket, it’s a win-win situation. There are no losers. And the owner of the supermarket is rich.
She said she supports
“decommodifying labor”
So she would let herself be operated on by a surgeon who gets paid no more than a janitor who dropped out of high school?
She said she supports
“reducing the vast inequality brought about by capitalism.”
In the capitalist U.S., where inequality is huge, poor people make $15,000 a year, while rich people make $15 million a year.
In Cuba, where there is equality, all government employees make $20 a month.
Bruenig wants the U.S. to adopt the same policies that are currently causing Venezuelans to starve to death. Everything that Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro have done was done because they hate capitalism just as much as Bruenig does. There is no basic difference between her views and theirs.
Thanks for the link to the video.
Watch deep thinker Elizabeth Bruenig arrange her hair.
Start at 27:25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp6pUsJhKZg
Her husband looks like Mr. Potatohead.
“,,,viciously competitive....”
Lady you haven’t seen “viciously competitive” until you’ve seen two Venezuelans fighting over a half eaten sandwich liberated from the dumpster!
She likes the setup in those communist countries,so let her live there & get a real taste of it. She needs to be deported immediately by way of a night boat ride & dropped off at the shore of one of those countries.
D@mn...I‘ve got baseball caps older than that.
Snowflake...loser...idiot...naive...LIB hack. These are NOT mutually exclusive .
She should feel free to move to friendly North Korea or overly abundant Venezuela.
Kinda funny that’s in the newspaper toy of the world’s richest man.
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