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See, I think capitalism can work, we just need way more controls. Taxes that prevent billionaires from ever happening. Incentives for corporations to invest most of their profits into R&D.
Make smaller profit margins necessary to stay afloat. That means they either need to cut prices and/or invest in people (which is essentially what R&D is).
Actually enforce antitrust laws. Make forming a corporation, let alone a conglomerate, unpalatable compared to forming an NPO.
The biggest poison is the profit-driven media landscape (traditional and social). Particularly "news". Something needs to happen there, first.
Put a 500% tax on political contributions from PACs and a hard cap on total political donations from an individual (that's actually enforced and loopholes closed up).
Capitalism without corporations. Without billionaires. With strong regulation and very limited lobbying. It could work. It'll never happen, but it could work...and it's probably a necessary stepping stone to full blown socialist utopia.
So you're imaging capitalism except capitalism is suborned to the state
Like in the USSR and China
instance checks out, anyways this wouldn't be Like in the USSR and China, this would be like in the EU but more regulations.
more regulations because who says so?
english is not my first language so, I can't easily understand what "more regulations because who says so?" means.
Is the language barrier responsible for you being a snippy little asshole?
i am not a pair of scissors, and please don't stick scissors up your asshole.
I wasn't using an idiom, I was speaking in plain language.
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