I unfortunately believe we won’t get a truly progressive president, House, or Senate until white voters stop balking at sharing with non-white people.
Say what? The essence of Capitalism is sharing. And it has nothing to do with the color of anyone’s skin.
The essence of capitalism is concentration of wealth, maximizing profit, not sharing it fairly.
LOL.
That is a definition of Socialism or any of its permeations. Wealth concentrated in a central government, monarchy, etc to be shared only with its chosen people.
Henry Ford made black model T’s ; he got rich and ordinary people got a car they could afford.
Sam Walton made shopping affordable to rural folk and then to all of us.
Ray Kroc gave us cheap hamburgers and revolutionized the restaurant business.
Google founders opened the internet to the world. Steve Jobs gave us unprecedented computing power we could carry in our pockets. (And take beautiful pictures)
The money the rich invest or save is available to all of us to build a home or start a business, or chase a dream.
That is sharing in a way you obviously don’t understand.
And probably never will.
That Sam Walton line is so hilariously skewed that I have to thank you for using that example. Shopping didn't suddenly become affordable with WalMart. Walton didn't distribute wealth, indeed he pushed down wages and worker rights to collective bargaining, and drove many Main Street businesses under so that fewer small business owners in the small towns could spend their profits within their towns, instead shipping money out of the town to a corporation elsewhere. Workers on the old Main St. had to take jobs at the Mart with lower pay, worse treatment by management, now had to travel many miles to work, and had little job security. Or they simply became unemployed, maybe had to move away. Then, to cap it all, Walmart filled its shelves with cheaply made junk that doesn't hold up, ensuring their model centered on profit over customer satisfaction or quality.
The classic WalMart story, I've heard so many times in various forms, is of buying a cheap shovel there, the plastic handle cracks and then breaks in a year, and then you go back to the old hardware on Main St. where you talk to an actual person who knows something about quality merchandise, you pay TWICE AS MUCH FOR A SHOVEL BUT IT LASTS YOU TWENTY YEARS.
Your other examples:
Google didn't open the internet to the world. They did make taking your private information and commodifying it without your permission much easier, though. Yay.
Henry Ford? One of the guys who conspired with petroleum and rubber companies to run electric streetcar lines out of business in American cities and replace them with gridlock, more smog, and a million baking seas of asphalt parking lots? Riiiight.
Believe me, I understand the "sharing" of the rich only too well. As does anyone who runs the figures on how wealth has grown increasingly concentrated in the top few percent and the wage gap deepened.
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