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No, we're not. It just seems like there's excess because the costs of running social programs are being paid with runaway debt. Those bills will eventually require settling, and it will become obvious how much excess there really is.
We're producing enough to feed everyone and throw it away if it is not paid for. This cruel system has to end.
Entertaining a lump of monolithic production fallacy is also silly.
There are any number of detailed and specific problems that need to be solved to solve the greater economic problem you describe. A system that promotes direct effort to solve specific problems is required.
Your naivety only exacerbates the cruelty.
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Then we don't live in this Capitalism either. Corporations and governments cooperate , but most of the final power is on the government still.
Are you sure about that?
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European here. I left Europe 14 years ago. I tried to come back. My decision was to run away bc it is impossible to build a reasonable life in a stable way where you do not get smashed mercilessly... It is just too much.
Where did you end up? Do you have a way to PM you?
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If you have the money, you can get excellent healthcare in almost any civilized country. You're free to pay for your treatment in Canada, too.
The US has (without much debate) the absolute best healthcare on Earth if money isn't an issue. There are so many more experts in so many more fields with access to so much more cutting edge technology that...well rich people travel to the US to get care.
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> the cost of distributing it has been increasing at a far higher rate than the rate of increasing surplus. Is it? Or is it that an increasing proportion of total income ends up going to the people who find ways of hiding it such that it does not get distributed.
How do you hide something in a closed loop system such as an economy?
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More than half of employment is “bullshit jobs” needed only for capitalism. There’s artificial scarcity but artificial scarcity in minds of people is much worse problem.
If you think capitalism is bad then wait until you see how many more "bullshit jobs" are needed for socialism.
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That data is published quite often, no conspiracy here. The point is that the top 1% can be taxed more heavily, not that they own the majority of wealth.
I'm not sure taxing them more heavily will actually result in significantly more tax revenue in the long run. Think about it: to pay for this tax, the rich will need to sell their assets. Who is going to buy those assets? What impact would that have on the asset price?