You didn't explain anything other then your opinion. I was stating that if those "evil rich" people are rich it is because they have a marketable trait, whether be it labor, or ideas, they earned their money, it wasn't given to them. Capitalism works. Free Market Works.
Don't put words in my mouth. I never called anyone "evil." None of this contradicts the fact that the market system is an oligarchy. Sure, the market works, but for whom?
And to whom would the opposite work for? Where I can't earn based on my skills?
The Market is a 2 fold machine, it cannot exist without both parts. Supply and Demand. One without the other has no purpose.
I don't exactly know the specific opposite to which you refer as there have been a number of alternatives to capitalism proposed, but an economy will only work for the people if everyone gets to decide democratically how the economy works. If a small group of people gets a disproportionate say in what the "demand" is and how it is to be "supplied," then the economy is compelling everyone else to defer to those people's judgments and serve their needs and wants.
Please go onto further detail. How can an economy be "democratic"? I don't think you understand how a Capitalistic Economy works. "Few" don't decide the "demand". Everyone decides the demand based on how they spend their money.
Research the Spanish anarchist movement. Another good place to start would be a system developed by radical economist Michael Albert called Participatory Economics.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had a system in place that would get rid of the Special Interests and Lobbyists? Man, I wish I knew of a way...
But, the only power a politician has at his disposile that Corporations want is Favortism with the Tax Code, if you REMOVE that weapon from their arsenal, then they don't have a reason to want that favortism. Make Sense? Remove the Corporate Taxes, relieve yourself of Lobbyists FOR the Corporations.
Yes, that is true, but, under the FairTax, the only way they can get re-elected is if they do the job that the People want, not pander with the Tax Code. No more "I'll Tax these people more, so you don't get taxed more", or "Read my Lips, No new Taxes" crap. That's all pandering, so if a politician wants to keep their job, they have to make corporations keep clean and all that, or they CAN get fined. Eminent Domain, again, would be good reason to get rid of the Tax Code Pandering that Politicians do, it'll open more eyes of the Voting Public if that was in the News instead of "Politicians Promise to Lower Taxes on [Insert Group Here]" that we see every week.
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