- Inequality
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
Global competition is about winners and losers.
- Global Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty.
- Low
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming more than we are producing.
- Globalization
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- Nov 07, 2020
But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.
- Nov 07, 2020
Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.
- Globalization
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy.
- Mechanism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money is a mechanism for control.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not exclusively, but the bulk of our local economy should be covered by local currencies, which is more efficient than having global currencies which lose connection with reality in the markets, shops and communities of the people.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life, food, health and the environment.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I would need to make a prediction I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020