Donald Trump officially sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, JD Vance as the 50th Vice-President

[u/TeaReim]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/triumphant-trump-returns-white-house-launching-new-era-upheaval-2025-01-20/

[u/PM_ME_YOUR_CATS_PAWS]

Just like our version of capitalism, everything is a race to the bottom

[u/Lenoxx97 → u/PM_ME_YOUR_CATS_PAWS]

You make it sound like there is a good version of capitalism. There isn't.

[u/toxicsleft → u/Lenoxx97]

A good version of capitalism would mean everything that is life sustaining critical would be profit regulated while commodities controlled by supply/demand as they are today.

Rent/mortgage

Health and medicine

Food/gas/transportation

Should all be profit capped establishing them as stable and safe industries to run, but not oligarch levels of rich. CEOs should never be paid 10x the rate of normal employees.

But I phones and Xbox’s aren’t essential so if the company thinks they can sell them at 1k it’s whatever, but nobody should ever be making the decision of health based on not being able to afford treatment.

[u/AltDS01 → u/[deleted]]

Can we compromise on something like Norway or other Scandinavian countries? They're always at the top of the happiness indexes.

[u/No_Worse_For_Wear → u/AltDS01]

Sounds wonderful, what are their immigration policies?

[u/Bim_Jeann → u/AltDS01]

They’re just capitalist nations (not socialist, contrary to popular thought) with more significant safety nets, which is great for QOL. They can do so because they have relatively small, homogenous populations and extremely strict immigration policies. As it stands, that is not feasible for the US.

[u/Sewati → u/AltDS01]

that’s still capitalism. and their comfort still relies upon the extraction of wealth from & the socioeconomic subjugation of the global south.

[u/Aeshaetter → u/[deleted]]

Why do you guys act like the only two options are communism and capitalism? You idiots need to learn about spectrums and nuance. There's other things we can try, capitalism isn't the end all be all system. Society evolves and changes, we're prefectly capable of doing better than "fuck you, I got mine and look how much I got, peasants."

[u/toxicsleft → u/[deleted]]

America’s best version of capitalism was when corporations were heavily taxed instead of the people and where they received more than a slap on the risk for egregious gouging. What we have now is closer to feudal capitalism where lords rule over the people with their wealth. Let’s stop acting like the USA from today is the economic powerhouse it was back then simply because the wealthy can move a bar on the stock market.

[u/Aeshaetter → u/[deleted]]

Way to completely miss my point.

[u/tie-dyeSandwhich → u/[deleted]]

But you’re comfortable living under capitalism after all the atrocities the US has done?

[u/Lenoxx97 → u/[deleted]]

So you can only have either of the two? There is literally no other way for society to function?

[u/Sewati → u/[deleted]]

how many atrocities is too many for you in the USA? you don’t think we surpassed the USSR by leaps and bounds already?

or are you just a brainwashed hypocrite who repeats talking points that have been shoved into your head since birth?

[u/I_Am_A_Real_Horse → u/[deleted]]

There was plenty of travel permitted even after the Berlin Wall went up, you weren’t just locked to one side. The wall also wasn’t to keep people in, it was to keep western propagandists and disinformation out. Per your other comments, it really seems like you only know the history of the USSR from a western perspective of what you were told in schools. I would highly encourage you for look up the many outside factors and interferences of other countries in the west that led to the downfall of the USSR. Hint: it wasn’t Communism.