• return2ozma@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    I’ll never forget Pelosi talking down to a high school student who asked her a question about economic equity—I don’t remember the kid’s question, but her response is seared into my brain. She got pissy and said “America is a capitalist country” like capitalism was handed down from god on high or enshrined in the Constitution.

    Here’s the clip: https://youtu.be/MR65ZhO6LGA

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      1 year ago

      Ah, thanks… the questioner wasn’t a high school student, but appears to be in their 20s. Pelosi’s response is less flagrantly contemptuous than I remember, but revealed her to be a dyed-in-the-wool corporatist, which was equally upsetting and has colored my perception of her ever since. Feinstein basically wanted to publicly flay Snowden and took such an extreme view of state secrets (among other things), and I was always curious about the politics that led her to get reelected term after term.

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      1 year ago

      What economic system would you recommend beyond capitalism? Are there any large countries that have successfully implemented this?

      For economic systems, it seems like just about every country mixes capitalism and socialism, and some of those economies lean more towards one rather than the other.

      Perhaps a better discussion would be over what the best mixture is rather than the simple: “Capitalism/Socialism is bad” that people seem to argue so much over.

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          1 year ago

          I was hoping for an actual discussion rather than a link to a 20 min video like that.

          That 20 min video was all “capitalism is bad” and only for a few seconds near the end where he proposes “Communist Realism” without even attempting to explain what it is or compare any sort of pros and cons.

          So to summarize the video for anyone else who doesn’t want to waste their time (in the context of the questions I proposed):

          What economic system would you recommend beyond capitalism?

          Video: “Communist Realism, buy my book”

          Are there any large countries that have successfully implemented this?

          Video: “No, they weren’t given a chance because capitalist countries overthrew them in one way or another.”

          Perhaps a better discussion would be over what the best mixture is rather than the simple: “Capitalism/Socialism is bad” that people seem to argue so much over.

          The video didn’t really address this other than:
          Video: “Capitalism bad, people are stuck thinking there’s nothing else”…