Globalist corporatism is what Tucker was talking about, not American capitalism.
They have changed their practices to a global business market.
The US is just one small country so we no longer matter to them.
These businesses keep all the benefits, safety, security, stability, of doing businesses from inside the US but they no longer care about the US.
“Globalist corporatism is what Tucker was talking about, not American capitalism.”
There was a time when there was actually a distinction.
No more.
Main Street is being killed by Wall Street. Globalist Corporatism is about all that is left.
ESPECIALLY in banking/finance.
In other words, collectivist neo-feudalism, aka socialism.
One of the goals of the communists (Goal #37 on the list of 45 goals for the USA) was to “(i)nfiltrate and gain control of big business”. This is indeed what Carlson refers to here as well as the effects thereof, not “American capitalism”.
“I thought it was great monologue, and I agree with him.
Part of the reason this country has gone downhill is because of people whose only goal in life is to collect as much money as possible before they pass away. Consequently, just about everything we buy these days is cheap garbage and our quality of life has deteriorated a LOT in the last half century.”
Essentially, he is lambasting a corruption of true Capitalism, in which certain key players are able to buy influence with lawmakers and guarantee both their success and the failure of any up and coming competition. The same thing happens with predatory pricing...which is why Standard Oil’s practice of having price wars until competition went bankrupt, then jacking up prices once it bought out the assets of that competition, resulted in the Sherman Antitrust Act. As well it should have. Crony capitalism and predatory pricing that is permitted for one reason or another are just corruption - and that corruption benefits the very, very few at the pinnacle of society, at everyone else’s expense. That destroys countries and cultures, and must not be allowed. Essentially, it is feudalism, but gussied up with some fine-sounding words like “freedom” and “opportunity.”
One aspect of this that deserves more attention is the financialization of the economy. In the past, there was a strong connection between how well Wall Street and Main Street were doing, because stock trading led to investment capital - and ultimately jobs + consumer goods. Today's financial markets are increasingly driven by short-term, zero sum futures/derivates trading rather than long-term investment. This, together with offshoring, means that Wall Street can be doing great while Main Street is in an economic rut (and vice-versa).