A majority of millennials now reject capitalism, poll shows
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A majority of millennials now reject capitalism, poll shows
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Re: A majority of millennials now reject capitalism, poll shows
#2It seems like publishing standards have really sank.
Re: A majority of millennials now reject capitalism, poll shows
#3Most people do not even understand what capitalism is thanks to the term becoming conflated with greed. And as the poll shows, not supporting capitalism doesn't mean supporting socialism.
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#4In my experience, people who criticize this article are probably benefiting from "capitalism" (the majority of people on here, I reckon, do), meanwhile those struggling from inequality, not being here, will fail to have their voice heard. And so the echo chamber ensues.
That being said, capitalism and having things like free healthcare and education are hardly mutually exclusive. So I think the article's conclusion, "In an apparent rejection of the basic principles of the U.S. economy...", (more the poll) are a bit misleading.
Here's the actual poll, by the way:
http://www.people-press.org/2011/12/28/little-change-in-publ...
Thanks to twblalock for including the recent poll:
http://iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/harvard-iop-spring-2016-po....
Re: A majority of millennials now reject capitalism, poll shows
#5This article is a lot of fluff. It opens with a survey that finds a majority of millenials do not agree with capitalism.
Then it tempers that with the acknowledgement that "capitalism means different things to different people" and that it's unclear if respondents favor another system more, or just don't support anything.
Finally, it sort of meanders around with different people weighing in on what this might mean or what the cause could be.
Nothing really...happened here. It would be nice to see an article (or survey) that does a few things better than this:
1. Engages with both the material and millenials in an intellectually satisfying and nuanced way. Millenials are spoken about here not as members of the conversation, but as specimens. Furthermore, there's frankly not a lot of rigor in figuring out why millenials might not approve of capitalism other than the garden variety "first-pass" analyses you can read elsewhere.
2. Establishes greater rigor in both terminology and discovery. Maybe "capitalism" should have been defined more rigorously in the study. Maybe questions should have been less leading and asked about alternatives if capitalism is not satisfactory to the respondents.
3. Attempts to develop real conclusions instead of polarizing ones. Maybe the survey shouldn't have asked about "capitalism" at all, but instead asked about specific policies in a bipartisan manner. Avoiding the difficulties that make mistakes in my #2 point would be a significant improvement.
In fact, at this point I'm not sure if the goal was to honestly engage with the material or millenials at all at this point, or if there is an agenda for pushing out articles that paint huge demographics with such a broad brush. I don't like feeling that way or questioning this, but it doesn't feel like a real attempt was made here. I honestly left this piece without being able to make any real conclusions. I'm a millenial myself, so take that for what it's worth.
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#6So, what they really mean is that they want less globalization... rather then less capitalism... and we know many older voters also voted for less globalization... so it's like both young and old, stung by globalization and financial crises want to retrench?
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#7Any political/economic system will have individual actors that destroy the lives and wellbeings of others.
if your system can prevent these people from wielding such power, i'd like to hear how!
Re: A majority of millennials now reject capitalism, poll shows
#8In my experience, people who criticize this article are probably benefiting from "capitalism" (the majority of people on here, I reckon, do), meanwhile those struggling from inequality, not being here, will fail to have their voice heard. And so the echo chamber ensues. That being said, capitalism and having things like free healthcare and education are hardly mutually exclusive. So I think the article's conclusion,…
I can tell you that if you asked the poorest in America if they believed private ownership of property should be illegal in the US they would disagree.
Socialism to most Americans is free healthcare and college. Capitalism is lobbying and the abuse of government sponsored monopolies.
Re: A majority of millennials now reject capitalism, poll shows
#9In my experience, people who criticize this article are probably benefiting from "capitalism" (the majority of people on here, I reckon, do), meanwhile those struggling from inequality, not being here, will fail to have their voice heard. And so the echo chamber ensues. That being said, capitalism and having things like free healthcare and education are hardly mutually exclusive. So I think the article's conclusion,…
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Re: A majority of millennials now reject capitalism, poll shows
#10(2016)
I'm curious what the results would be for "free enterprise", "free markets", or "private property".