Sunday, 24 September 2023

Isn't it time we ended Capitalism? Even social mobility is worse.

https://ifs.org.uk/inequality/intergenerational-mobility-in-the-uk/

"National estimates of intergenerational earnings mobility

  • Previous work has shown that intergenerational income mobility in England was lower for those born in 1970 than those born in 1958. Using administrative data on the most recent birth cohorts for whom earnings data are available, we find no evidence of recovery from that decline. National estimates of mobility of cohorts born in the late 1980s looks very similar to those of the 1970 cohort and education inequalities continue to be the dominant mediator.
  • However, these estimates paint an incomplete picture for two reasons.

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The researchers still can't believe it. Hoping that with a different method they will get the results they want. Why should Capitalism work? Its based upon a division between owners and non-owners where the owners are rewarded with rents and dividends that are paid them by the non-owners. How can any one in their wildest fantasies think this will lead to equality of any type? It is a society fundamentally divided at the most basic level. The only way to undo this is to either have everyone own everything (Democratic Socialism) or have no-one own anything (Anarchism). And the idea of Democratic Capitalism is an insult. Oh great I got a vote whoo hoo... tho I'd sell that any day for a £100 it is so utterly worthless.

Capitalism is a bit like a smoker who keeps ending up in hospital looking for treatment. When the thing itself is harmful nothing good will come from it. People are poorer, less socially mobile, society is fragmented, people are mentally ill, the planet is destroyed and we know we are subjected to over a century of total brainwashing to promote Capitalism and yet we still carry on smoking in the hope something good will come of it. Isn't it time just to quit now and pick up the healthy life that we already know deep down exists (despite Capitalist brainwashing that there is no other way than mad work and consumerism to generate profit - its the kind of mental abuse you get from a controlling partner: okay quit our relationship big shot but can you really live without me.. well yes we can because we were doing fine before you). #EndCapitalism

However ending capitalism is a quite complex cos it means unpacking the previous "Protestant Work Ethic" whereby work was seen as a religious offering. But of course "work" here did not mean the greedy self-centred mass consumption and accumulation of goods/bads it meant "good work" as in helping other people, and I think that implied without reward (so exchange was not a fundamental - central to modern criticisms of the false idea that money originated in barter - there is literally no actual evidence of this - barter is not, never was, an exchange system!!!! its a "mate I need a hand" system). And anyway obviously nothing belongs to us as it was all made by God, even our hands and talents are made by God and are gift given through His Grace. So work is a celebration of God's Gifts. This is the origin of Capitalism. But how Satan and Mammon have dragged us down and corrupted us since those lofty days! Henry VIII (aka Thomas Cromwell) is in large part responsible for triggering the transition to the "unholy works" of Capitalism and from them come the cess-pool of modern corrupted life.

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