I don't know about your countries, but here in the USA all government actions are for the purpose of making the wealthy and powerful even wealthier and more powerful.
Government of the wealthy, by the wealthy, and for the wealthy. Most of the members of our Congress are millionaires. Some are ultra-wealthy. businessinsider.com/congress-r… Disturbingly, some of these members of Congress became millionaires after they became members of Congress.
In the US after our embrace of supply side trickle down economics & the supremacy of the "free market" & the "invisible hand"the logical progression would be the ascension of plutocracy...government for the rich by the rich. No one seems, at the time, to have made that connection except the republican party...social & fiscal factions... It is true money...wealth has always exerted influence here (as it has everywhere) it was taxation without representation that prompted the revolution & the founding documents... The money madness that gripped this country in the 80s and continues to flourish & spread does not, to my mind, negate the promise that was this country ... ...money madness is my description of what happened to the citizens of the US. The turn to our more avarice nature initiated & perpetuated by our economic policies, to my mind, is responsible for the condition & our current situation(administration) ...
"Plutocracy is a society or a system ruled and dominated by a small minority of the wealthiest. The rich have always been powerful; some element of plutocracy has been present in all societies." "But the degree of control being exercised now; the number of the ultra-rich essentially buying political power; the nearly impossible persistence required to overcome the legal, public relations, and technical resources controlled by corporations and the richest individuals; the much denser concentration of wealth in even the largest countries; and the global nature of the resources, power, and connections being accumulated have combined to foreclose meaningful democratic options and space for a life independent of the materialistic values of the plutocracy." ourworld.unu.edu/en/opinion-th…
"The economy no longer facilitates human society; humans live to serve the economy."
"The logic that undergirds all of this — the greed for money, power, and control — is antithetical to preserving an environment in which living things can thrive. Through most of human history we have endured various unbalanced political and social systems."
"Today’s market economy has roots going back centuries, but only in this one has it become so monolithic, with virtually the entire world under its spell." ourworld.unu.edu/en/opinion-th…
Deb Zaccaro-Rojas
in reply to libramoon • • •David
in reply to libramoon • • •It's not about petroleum anymore. Look at wars being fought right now.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_…
Wikimedia list article
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Tess
in reply to libramoon • • •When they were about oil they were about the same thing they're about now..power & control.
I think so too @Deb Zaccaro-Rojas morons come in all hues...
David
in reply to libramoon • • •I don't know about your countries, but here in the USA all government actions are for the purpose of making the wealthy and powerful even wealthier and more powerful.
Government of the wealthy, by the wealthy, and for the wealthy. Most of the members of our Congress are millionaires. Some are ultra-wealthy.
businessinsider.com/congress-r…
Disturbingly, some of these members of Congress became millionaires after they became members of Congress.
Also
abcnews.go.com/US/trump-tapped…
Trump has tapped an unprecedented 13 billionaires for his administration. Here's who they are
Peter Charalambous (ABC News)Tess
in reply to libramoon • • •It is true money...wealth has always exerted influence here (as it has everywhere) it was taxation without representation that prompted the revolution & the founding documents...
The money madness that gripped this country in the 80s and continues to flourish & spread does not, to my mind, negate the promise that was this country ...
...money madness is my description of what happened to the citizens of the US. The turn to our more avarice nature initiated & perpetuated by our economic policies, to my mind, is responsible for the condition & our current situation(administration) ...
David
in reply to libramoon • • •from a year and 5 months ago
crestonnews.com/opinion/column…
Getting rich in Congress
Creston NewsTess
in reply to libramoon • • •"But the degree of control being exercised now; the number of the ultra-rich essentially buying political power; the nearly impossible persistence required to overcome the legal, public relations, and technical resources controlled by corporations and the richest individuals; the much denser concentration of wealth in even the largest countries; and the global nature of the resources, power, and connections being accumulated have combined to foreclose meaningful democratic options and space for a life independent of the materialistic values of the plutocracy."
ourworld.unu.edu/en/opinion-th…
Opinion: The World Has Reached Peak Plutocracy - Our World
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in reply to libramoon • • •"The economy no longer facilitates human society; humans live to serve the economy."
"The logic that undergirds all of this — the greed for money, power, and control — is antithetical to preserving an environment in which living things can thrive. Through most of human history we have endured various unbalanced political and social systems."
"Today’s market economy has roots going back centuries, but only in this one has it become so monolithic, with virtually the entire world under its spell."
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Opinion: The World Has Reached Peak Plutocracy - Our World
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