This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington.
That is how capitalism works.
1) Money congregates to ever less people.
2) Rich people use their power (money) to buy media, economy, politics.
3) They push for policies/spread lies that make them even richer.
4.) They use the new money to oust competition and gather more money (power).
It's not even a question of the underlying political system since you see the same developments in autocracies.
Funnily Marx's idea seemed to be to let this spiral to continue to its extreme and then simply disown the few remaining rich capitalists for the sake of also benefitting from the advancements of capitalistic societies. Another fact why countries like China or USSR have never been real communist states.
But yeah, unless the world abolishes capitalism and replaces it with a nature-friendly, socially equal system, this civilization won't last that much longer.
Robert Reich
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