Chou Toshio
Over9000
It's like everything I want to argue for as a liberal ironically negatively affects me. lol
If the US keeps its current mess of a health care system (which I don't directly pay for), the US continues to put out incentives for medical technology innovation that can better our lives here in Japan without us (me included) having to pay for companies' exorbitant profit margins.
If the Republicans massively cut taxes for the top 1% (and get rid of the estate tax...) that actually benefits me directly as well (or via my parents anyway).
Huzzah is what I'd say... in the most short-sited selfish way of viewing the world.
Even the wealthy don't want to live as trillionaires surrounded by concrete and barbed wire separating them from starving masses. Greater society-- we don't want a world without a vibrant middle class that both fuels consumption and provides the productive and creative manpower needed to further all human endeavors. We don't want to live in a world where liars and thieves are not treated as such as long as they are rich and powerful enough to have the law in their pockets. We don't want to live in a world where corporations make all their decisions to serve the short-sited here and now of an investment-robot's hedging algorithm-- without thinking about that corporation's potential for world-changing innovation or value generation in the long-term if we just invested in it and its people. We don't want to live in a world so razed that it is unlivable for future generations. We don't want to live in a world where "efficiency" and "productivity" are the values of society, the end goal of what we are aim for-- instead of human enrichment and liberation, which are where the true gains capitalism has brought on, and can still be built on lie. Are we slaves of the system, or does the system exist for us?
Nothing this administration has done looks to me like policy that can lead to a better world.
The difference between conservatives and liberals is not what we want from the world-- but rather a question of focus on not breaking stuff that works, or looking to fix stuff that seems broken-- both have their time and place, but modern Americans ARE the frog in the slowly boiling water...
In some ways, the vote for Trump is a show that the American people are more aware than that frog-- we just collectively decided to jump right into another pot.
If the US keeps its current mess of a health care system (which I don't directly pay for), the US continues to put out incentives for medical technology innovation that can better our lives here in Japan without us (me included) having to pay for companies' exorbitant profit margins.
If the Republicans massively cut taxes for the top 1% (and get rid of the estate tax...) that actually benefits me directly as well (or via my parents anyway).
Huzzah is what I'd say... in the most short-sited selfish way of viewing the world.
Even the wealthy don't want to live as trillionaires surrounded by concrete and barbed wire separating them from starving masses. Greater society-- we don't want a world without a vibrant middle class that both fuels consumption and provides the productive and creative manpower needed to further all human endeavors. We don't want to live in a world where liars and thieves are not treated as such as long as they are rich and powerful enough to have the law in their pockets. We don't want to live in a world where corporations make all their decisions to serve the short-sited here and now of an investment-robot's hedging algorithm-- without thinking about that corporation's potential for world-changing innovation or value generation in the long-term if we just invested in it and its people. We don't want to live in a world so razed that it is unlivable for future generations. We don't want to live in a world where "efficiency" and "productivity" are the values of society, the end goal of what we are aim for-- instead of human enrichment and liberation, which are where the true gains capitalism has brought on, and can still be built on lie. Are we slaves of the system, or does the system exist for us?
Nothing this administration has done looks to me like policy that can lead to a better world.
The difference between conservatives and liberals is not what we want from the world-- but rather a question of focus on not breaking stuff that works, or looking to fix stuff that seems broken-- both have their time and place, but modern Americans ARE the frog in the slowly boiling water...
In some ways, the vote for Trump is a show that the American people are more aware than that frog-- we just collectively decided to jump right into another pot.
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