Hey now, the Trump admin will get offended if you downplay their incompetence!

We let capitalism run too far. Need to swing hard towards socialism or the whole thing will collapse

I live in Spain and that’s what socialism means basically. At least here.

> and letting people commit crimes without going to jail

Looking at the administration, the feudal internet lords and other megacorps, the US is deeply socialist then.

But, see, there is a fundamental difference.

We prefer to let capital (and its representatives) commit the juiciest crimes...

> and letting people commit crimes without going to jail

So US is the most socialist country by far. Both rich and poor commit crimes without going to jail

The actual problem is how do we give people things that are way more expensive than those people will ever be able to cover themselves?

The answer is to make someone else pay for it. But man, have you ever gone to dinner with your large tech salary and been advised you have a moral obligation to cover 80% of the table's bill, and then be demonized for scrutinizing what people ordered?

Socialism is great when you can get yourself to believe that the government is a bottomless money pit fed by evil people with infinite money harvested from captive forced labor.

Capitalism is great when you can get yourself to believe that the lives of people who cannot carry (or did not carry) their weight don't matter.

I think you’re a magnitude or two off in the current state of wealth inequality. It’s more like people are asking you with a 400k/yr salary to pitch in to buy candy bars and you’re upset someone picked out a king size for fifty cents more.

Socialist policies would be decidedly less popular if people knew that most of the money to fund them would come from middle and upper middle class earners.

While those people as individuals have nowhere near "billionaire" money, they as a contingent have the most wealth.

While the "1% have more money than the bottom 50%" is true, they have less than half the money of the 70%-95%. America's cash cow is in the suburbs, not the Hamptons. Kinda forbidden knowledge to know that.

More than likely, it's daily reality.

Insane binary choice fallacy. The choices are more akin to centralised control or free-ish markets. We see from experience how centralised control has completely butchered healthcare, both in the US and also my country of Canada. It's time to drop the insane authoritarian control and let people freely chose their own destiny, so to speak.

Wikipedia is excellent.

Very good news. Capitalism is going off the rails and needs to be heavily reigned in.

Agreed, I hope they can have some strong enforcement teeth with GIANT fines.

Their CEO is a crazy person who seemingly wants to tear down democracy

The jury disagrees with you.

We have plenty of protective laws. Most dangerously addictive substances and activities are heavily regulated. Children aren’t allowed in Casinos or allowed to buy weed. Social media is known to be addictive and destructive. It has to be for FB to make large profit.

Good news, social media has been extensively studied and found to be addictive. So we have little need to tread carefully, we already know it’s addictive.

Fortunately it also has minimal to no value to society, so even if we overreacted and banned it completely it’d be fine

Good news, the thing you like had been found to be addictive. Please relinquish your freedom, this is for your own good.

If by relinquish freedom we mean, respect other people and limit your vice to controlled settings where harm is minimized.. yes.

You can still smoke, drink, get high, and gamble. We ask that you limit these to places that minimize the damage you do to other people.

OG Facebook was perfectly fine. In your analogy it’d be more like someone replacing your Diet Coke with actual cocaine. Like, yeah Diet Coke isn’t great for you, but it’s not cocaine.

By this logic tobacco companies did nothing wrong when they pretended like smoking didn’t cause cancer for decades. Misleading users is harm.