Refreshing to hear, thanks. Did you guys cover an opinion piece in the NYTimes a couple weeks ago?: "It’s Time to Stop Living the American Scam" by Tim Kreider
I will get back to it and the other one you supplied when time permits but I read some brief comments (from Daily Kos this morning which has a link to get by the NYT paywall) which I thought were spot on and on our topic. [.. also, I took to heart the main reason suggested why Noam may be disliked (ironically by co called critical thinkers) because of the emotional attachment/love of country - it's tough being the only remaining super power but make no mistake; it is not the only one responsible for this mess. I have a great love and respect for the ideals espoused just like the Queen of England always does. Little for hypocrisy.
The gist of Kreider’s piece is that the American capitalist economy is seriously flawed
...In the actual dystopian future we now inhabit, the oligarchs have realized they could work everyone harder, pay them less, eliminate benefits, turn every human institution from medicine to corrections into a racket, charge far more for basic rights and services than people in any other nation would stand for without revolting, and get rich beyond the penny ante dreams of a Carnegie or Astor.
In the past few decades, capitalism has exponentially increased the creation of wealth for the already incredibly wealthy at the negligible expense of the well-being, dignity and happiness of most of humanity, plus the nominal cost of a mass extinction and the destruction of the biosphere — like cutting out the inefficient business of digestion and metabolism by pouring a fine bottle of wine directly into the toilet, thereby eliminating the middleman of you.
Also of note,
If there’s a problem with the Democratic establishment (well one of many), it’s that as a party devoted to competence, rationality, and actual facts, it’s too invested in Things As They Are and too busy keeping stuff from falling apart to recognize that this is not what we need and that it’s unsustainable. (They ARE really good at sending out fund-raising appeals as a reflex response to GOP atrocities.)
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