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This is why you don't put Christian Evangelicals in charge
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01397-1
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And this is why nobody respects you.
Unfortunately, respect isn't earned in capitalist states. It is purchased.
Vought will build up a healthy crop of future university officials who kowtow to him in order to get their hands on grant money. And Vought will crow about how many new professors and accredited faculty agree with him. All while corporate media regurgitates junk pseudoscience to a gullible public behind the mask of "objective" research.
We're in for decades of Jordan B Peterson tier academics swarming over the University landscape, eager to advance religious bullshit in exchange for a salary and commission.
🙄 Why do so many users on Lemmy have such a ridiculous hard on for hating capitalism like it’s Satan’s economic theory? Regulated capitalism combined with socialist policies around health care and other subjects works great. All the best economies in the world run on a form of that combination. Purely socialist/communist countries all turn into dictatorships.
This is homeopathy for market liberals. "Okay, but if you just dilute the ideology more, it works even better".
If you're heavily regulated and you're running a large public sector for critical supply and services and you're subsidizing quality of life for the public with high taxes on the wealthy and yadda yadda yadda...
That's Not Real Capitalism.
All the worst ones are, too. The difference is whether you're living in the industrialized core or the extractive fringe.
Yes, it's great to live near an office park in a university town with a booming tech industry. But no, you don't want to do artisanal mining labor in an African border territory to produce the cheap raw materials that tech sector office park needs to exist.
Neither do you want to be an undocumented migrants doing service sector work in Dubai. Or a Philippian fisherman squabbling for rapidly depleting fisheries in the Pacific Rim. Or a Haitian day laborer in Ohio. Or a hospice nurse under the UK's increasingly privatized NHS. Or unemployed.
That's a bald faced lie.
It's not 100% free market libertarian Capitalism, I suppose, but who wants the extreme form of anything? There is no perfect economic system, certainly not Communism. Regulated Capitalism has been proven to work reasonably well—provided the regulations are smart and kept in place. Good governance is about balance and compromise; no ideological system has ever been shown to work on its own in the real world.
Almost all of your examples are from underdeveloped, poor countries. Yes, living in a poor country does suck, but the cause is more exploitation from outside rather than Capitalism from within.
Colonized, looted, and impoverished countries. Conquered and despoiled countries.
That's the wages of capitalism. You're not building a prosperous domestic state, you're robbing your neighbors and dolling out the spoils to your minions and allies.
Okay? After Greg Abbott wins the next election, he'll have been governor longer than Xi Jinping has been the Chinese president. Nobody seems to care.
We can also play this game with the UK, Mexico, Japan, South Africa, Israel...
Ruling governments can hold power for decades, sometimes even centuries, with capable leadership and popular approval.
The fundamental difference between Abbott and Xi is that Abbott uses his power to export the wealth of his state abroad on behalf of his sponsors while impoverishing enormous swaths of his local population.
Xi's brought wealth back into China, developed it's domestic industry and improved the quality of life, and raised over a hundred million of his people out of poverty.
Abbott's party has to fight tooth and nail to oppress his people in order to stay in power. Xi's party enjoys enormous native popularity and broad national support.
Okay, the only thing I really care to respond to in all that is your comparison of Abbot to Xi, because it demonstrates how much you’re missing the point. Abbot keeps getting elected; Xi is functionally president for life. Learn what a dictatorship is.
I think I’m done here. Anyone who goes as far as you have to defend despots is not someone I care to waste my time with.
The office is the Chinese president isn't even particularly powerful. Xi's influence is exerted through his chairmanship of the Party and of the Military Commission, neither of which are elected positions in either China or the US. His position as president is an appointment by Congress and has functions more equivalent to our Secretary of State (another unelected US position). He holds these offices by cultivating support within the elected Congress and popularity with the general public.
Abbott, meanwhile, secures his position as elected governor through strategic and systematic disenfranchisement, voter caging, and voter intimidation. He has mediocre public approval and is constantly, often viciously, fighting fellow members of his own party for control of government. His greatest influence comes from fundraising, which remains his forte. Unlike Xi, Abbott maintains his position as a conduit for bribery between private business and public officials.
Adios.
Self-fulfilling prophecy.