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Capitalism is the paywall of life
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this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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I think what you are reffering to as "not capitalist" is called social market economy, at least that's what it's called in german.
Some economists also reffer to it as Rhein Capitalism, because it's mostly used in europe and was important to prevent west german citizens from wanting communism.
Exactly!
I just know it did exist.
One good example is Germany. If the government didn’t phase out nuclear power as the citizens wanted they would have been in better place now.
Sometimes voting and democracy isn’t ideal as it’s easy to influence people if you have enough resources.
I disagree, voting is always right, but there's only an ideal outcome if the population is educated about the topic.
If people would have realised, that the true worst power source is fosile fules, we'd have cheaper electricity and better co2 rates now.
Same problem with power in austria btw, if some missinformed teens wouldn't have tried to be important back then we'd be maybe fully selfsufficient regaeding power now.
The issue is that educating people is not easy as it sounds. Also, if you’re rich, you can influence the people who vote.
Take Alex Jones as an example, he managed to convince someone to commit a crime. Look up Sandy Hook incident.
Also, Trump and Jan 6th.
You can see a pattern here. More resources means more influence thus manipulating people easily.