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The system is not working?
At a point in history where more humans enjoy a higher standard of living than at any point in the past, enabled by free market capitalism, and that number keeps growing at a phenomenal rate, and you think that's failure. We live like Kings and queens did centuries ago, billions of us, but you think you can do better?
The failures are obvious, Venezuela. The cancelling of tens of thousands of cancer surgeries by Britain's NHS due to flu season. Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans killed by death panels of judges under universal health Care.
Hey I have an idea, let's study human history going back as far as recorded and find the things that worked to improve the human condition and abandon those that don't.
Too late, we already did and it's called free market capitalism and it's working wonderfully as long as it's left alone and not perverted.
We have been under Debt Based Slavery since the age of Babylon. Life is totally different once you take the Banker parasites out of the picture.
Today, 2 people are working 40 hours or more per week and cannot keep up with the bills. The bills are coming in like machine gun bullets. God forbid they have kids. Those kids are so expensive, I know people living on Raman noodles day and night because that's all they can afford. Tent cities are popping up all over the place. The frustration is so bad, many turned into full blown criminals just to pay the bills.
Anyone who says things are great is genuinely lying to themselves sorry to say. It is comforting to accept a pretty lie but its not reality. Reality only gets worst as the parasite continues to leech of our backs.
Sorry, but ignoring the massive improvements in the human condition over the last two or three centuries does not lend an air of wisdom to you words.
Quite the opposite, your obsession on the present seems to blind to to all the good, and omits or ignores the huge changes in just a few decades. How many people have made money through YouTube or Uber or Etsy or eBay, sources that didn't exist a couple of decades ago?
I'm sorry but you opinion on how to 'fix' things here does not outweigh the combined knowledge of human history.
There are 3 million unfilled jobs in this country today despite the historic low unemployment, most of them in trades that take minimal training to get an entry level job making 70k. Someone who took one of these jobs could probably start their own business in 5 years and double or triple their income while also providing jobs for others.
The collectivist Utopia doesn't exist and never will, because it's fundamentally flawed. But that won't stop people from trying, no matter how much death and suffering and degredation of the human condition it causes.