Reply #66: Exactly. [View All]

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As you pointed out, for a big chunk of our history people were either robbed of their land or slaved for cheap labor, and even after slavery was abolished... children and immigrants were exploited during the gilded age. People need to realize that the couple of decades of relative prosperity in the USA, post WWII, were an "anomaly" not a trend. And let's not forget that even during that relative "prosperity" a big chunk of the USA (minorities) did not participate in it.

So I just get a chuckle when people pretend that this is something new. And BTW, this is not inherent to the USA, Capitalism depends on wealth gradients: i.e. cheap labor to maximize profits. That implies a large part of people (labor) being poor and a few (capital owners) being very wealthy. If people were equally wealthy, there would be no profit. Thus no capitalism. Yet people keep pretending a system, which has such inequality built in systemically, is behaving "anomaly" when it does exactly what it is intended to do.