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Capitalism is incompitent

The growing income inequality is evident enough for the lay person to make the argument that capitalism in incompatible with humanity. One cannot presume that a billionaire can exist along with the unhoused and ascertain that capitalism can provide a healthy society.

As Marx stated in chapter 1 of The Communist Manifesto:

Hitherto, every form of society has been based, as we have already seen, on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes. But in order to oppress a class, certain conditions must be assured to it under which it can, at least, continue its slavish existence. The serf, in the period of serfdom, raised himself to membership in the commune, just as the petty bourgeois, under the yoke of the feudal absolutism, managed to develop into a bourgeois. The modern labourer, on the contrary, instead of rising with the process of industry, sinks deeper and deeper below the conditions of existence of his own class. He becomes a pauper, and pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth. And here it becomes evident, that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society, and to impose its conditions of existence upon society as an over-riding law. It is unfit to rule because it is incompetent to assure an existence to its slave within his slavery, because it cannot help letting him sink into such a state, that it has to feed him, instead of being fed by him. Society can no longer live under this bourgeoisie, in other words, its existence is no longer compatible with society.

Capitalism produces dispair

The 2020 article published by Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences is very telling on the state of capitalism. Or, at least, American Capitalism, as stated in their article American Capitalism is Causing Deaths of Despair. We learn how Ronald Reagan's plan took root in the United States.

Whites without bachelor's degrees also suffer from chronic pain, difficulty socializing and relaxing, mental distress, high BMIs and low wages. Many are not married and do not practice a religion. In 2016, they were less likely to vote because they believed elections were controlled by the rich and big corporations.

This is not the only thing we learn from this article; I'd rather not fill this page with quotes from it directly, rather, link the source for you to read directly. I've created a mirror on archive.is in case something happens to the stanford link.

Capitalism requires poverty

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today released its 2024 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report: Part 1: Point-in-Time Estimates, an annual snapshot of the number of individuals in shelters, temporary housing, and unsheltered settings. The report found more than 770,000 people were experiencing homelessness on a single night in January 2024, an 18% increase from 2023. This report reflects data collected a year ago and likely does not represent current circumstances, given changed policies and conditions.

What we learned from the HUD Report No. 24-327, is that 770,000 people are experiencing homelessness now. Up 18% in one year. This also goes back to creating dispair.

The threat of withholding basic necessities needed for human survival is violence. Period. Capitalism uses that threat to create complacent workers that will never go against them because their life is literally tied to this job through their healthcare.

Controlling someone's life through their health and wages is slavery. There can be no freedom until humanity has these four basic needs met.

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