Once the fringiest of marginal groups, the DSA now has close to 130,000 members, up from 5,000 15 years ago. And its members are winning Democratic primaries across the country.
Megan Romer, national co-chair, said its growth reflected a deep frustration with a system she said was failing young people. “People are, like, well, OK, capitalism’s not working,” she said in an interview. “So what else is there?”
It works just fine for the owning class. It just doesn’t work for the rest of us. It was never designed to.
Capitalism works, just not for us. That’s not what it was designed for.
Capitalism went from allowing competition to drive down prices to companies incrementally increasing prices that everyone follows and repeats.
I can recall this very thing “working well” with retail rewards systems. Best buy would revamp their rewards program actually making benefits worse and raising more spending to hit different tiers, and other similar retailers followed. The “Geek squad” services increased, so did competitors to remain competitive while increasing profits.
Automotive repair shop’s cost of hourly labor goes up while the actual mechanics hardly see an increase in pay.
Slowly but surely things have gone up in price while what you’re spending money on buys you less. Physical media that you OWN never “expires” but streaming services and buying digital copies in services like Apple TV lose the rights. Games disappear because severs shut down or rights expire.
YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY! and the way big tech is treated, well, if buying isn’t owning, than piracy isn’t stealing.
Piracy literally isn’t stealing, the idea that it is is 100% propaganda.
Piracy is copying things that are copyrighted. And is a copyright infringement. It is not theft or stealing.
With stealing the original owner loses what he had when the thief steals it.
With copying the owner obviously still has ownership and possession of what was copied.Unchecked capitalism on the other hand is very much stealing, where the rich take from the poor. So the rich have more and the poor have less.
Which is why capitalism needs to be heavily regulated, exactly contrary to widely spread propaganda in USA about deregulation being better for all, when in reality it only benefit the rich.
Piracy literally isn’t stealing, the idea that it is is 100% propaganda.
The correct term should be “sharing what you own.” Libraries can do it, but individuals get prosecuted for it.
That was intentional…
Large corporations don’t undercut small businesses because vertical integration allows them to take smaller profit shares
They intentionally lose money in some markets so that small businesses get run out of business.
Then, after the small businesses are gone, they raise prices higher than the small businesses were to begin with.
It was a problem when large corps “drove down prices”, because that was them running everyone else out of the marketplace.
It’s why I hate the term “enshittification”, it starts identifying the problem after it’s too late to fix. That’s why companies are fine doing it, but the time shit gets worse, there’s no other alternative.
We don’t roll back to before it got shitty, we need to roll back to “when there was competition”.
Good point! Well explained!
Amazon is the end result…
Amazon “guarentees” the lowest prices, and that’s true.
If a product is sold on Amazon, that’s the lowest price.online. The manufacturer can’t even sell it for lower on their own website.
Because Amazon uses AI scrapers to constantly check, if it detects a lower price, it will “you may be overpaying for this item” in big red letters next to it, or even removing the buttons that let someone buy it.
So before they can lower the price anywhere, they have to lower it on Amazon. Because they need the volume that comes with Amazon sales.
Amazon’s “lowest price guarantee” just ends up meaning they keep people from getting it cheaper anywhere else. But for an individual, each individual purchase is a better deal at Amazon.
To win we need a drastic boycott where everyone just toughs it out and pays a little more for slower shipping to buy direct again. The manufacturers will make more per unit, and eventually will be able to stop playing Amazon’s game.
And that would leave Amazon with just Temu slop, and actually financially impact Bezos.
All we gotta do is get people to think big picture, we could bankrupt Bezos in less than a year.
From the article: "is increasingly popular with younger voters sick of the traditional remedies for America’s ills. "
What “traditional remedies”???
I’m 70 and neither party has done shit to help people since FDR.
There were the two blips of obama care and medicare prescription drug. Neither works particularly well, and both were crippled by the insurance and drug industries.Pretty obvious which side FT is on. As if we didn’t already know.
Did you realize that FDR was a socialist right? All of the popular policies that he instituted were socialist policies.
So?
If it works it’s good, if it doesn’t it’s bad.
Neither capitalism or socialism is inherently good or bad. They are just systems. Stop treating them like they are religions.
People and their actions make them good or bad systems.
And yet it’s funny how all the people who see capitalism as the perfect system are always the ones trying to dismantle the socialist systems that were put in place. Those same socialist systems that everybody relies upon for our society to run in a non-dystopian fashion.
Any effective government is going to be a combination of the best element of multiple systems. Every system has good and bad ideas. Keep the good ideas, ditch the bad ones, and tweak it until it works. But it’s dumb to keep the bad ideas, just so you can have the good ones. We can do anything we want.
We had a socialist run for mayor in my town, but the people who actually vote here are mostly MAGA idiots.
Voting turnout was abysmal, and I think almost no one under 30 voted.
Well yeah, tbh if I had to pick between a socialist and a republican, I’d probably skip voting too. Both are terrible 🤷♀️
What’s terrible about Socialists?
They don’t suck fascist cock nearly enough and that inbred maggot was told by Fox to hate socialism. No hate like Christian love
Hahahahaha. You. I like you.
Keep studying.
The only people who support socialism are people who never lived under socialism. I did. (no, Norway is not socialist in any way). I wish the supporters of DSA to get all they want.
You didn’t live under Socialism, you lived under an authoritarian government who claimed to be Socialist, but weren’t. Most governments are not what they claim to be.
Or correct, I forgot that there is Jo true Scotsman!
