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Take it from a former banker: the budget is for ordinary people. The mega-rich look on and laugh
(www.theguardian.com)
“How old are you, mate? Does this look like Jackanory to you?! I know you’ve lost a lot of money, but you won’t find a penny of it in them books. If you wanna know what’s happening in the world, take a look at the world. Go take a walk down the high street. See all the shops closed down. Look at the homeless people under the bridge. Go home, and ask your mum about her financial situation. Ask your friends, ask your friend’s mums. The time for books is over, mate. You’re here now. Look at the world with your fucking eyes.”
That's pretty damn sobering, and accurate. We're so use to being told what to think, and my whole takeaway from this, apart from "Eat The Rich", is to look for yourself. What he wrote after that paragraph is something we all should be doing. Looking at housing prices, looking at where real people are squeezed, and to act based on that. We're just cattle.
I look at the US primaries and caucuses and I see nothing but bullshit, "cute moments" as described in this article that won't help us at all. I look at Bernie Sanders' bill about the 32 hour workweek and I think about the weak willed moderate Democrats who won't vote for it, and all the scumbag Republicans who are not even hiding that they're part of this exact problem of enriching the rich while removing wealth from everyone beneath them.
Capitalism can work, when its heavily regulated with active oversight and robust enforcement. We haven't had a free market in many decades, the joke is on all the BS Republicans are peddling.