EricMakesMusic

emergentfutures:

Hi brazoscole

My reading is that Elizabeth Warren would mostly agree with you. She is not trying to separate people she is bringing them all together. She is not advocating socialism just that a strong capitalist system is built on a strong base of the commons and that both are needed for success not one or the other.

Paul

brazoscole:

emergentfutures:

Paul Higgins: Totally agree. People I would describe as pure capitalists often forget or ignore the base on which they build. I find this particularly difficult to stomach when Rupert Murdoch returns to Australia to lecture us on our education system while utilising every loophole he can to not pay the tax to support the system

 climateadaptation:

OK, this is the quote of the year. She’s got my vote here in Massachusetts!

She says “the rest of us”, as if the people running these companies are any different than “the rest of us”.  What is the logic behind trying to separate the money makers from the workers in our society?  It is the workers that rely on the businessmen to be employed, and it is the government that relies on a profitable economy in order to raise revenue that can ultimately build those roads and hire those policemen.  She has forgotten the order of things, apparently.  Look at any other socialist society that lacks a strong economy.  They have horrible roads, corrupt policemen, and starving people.  Strong economies exist in spite of the governments who seek to control them.

Great quote. See, there must be some ‘socialism’ in our capitalism.

(Source: mgolladwyne)