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Time to Admit That Capitalism Has Failed
They say that most people become more conservative with age. Maybe that’s true from a social standpoint, or maybe it’s just another social myth.
Personally, the older I get the more radical I become.
This hellish year has pushed me all the way to the left. I’m ready to dump the whole idea of capitalism and replace it with a system that supports the lives of the humans who live within it.
While countries across Asia and Europe have gotten the deadly coronavirus under some control, the United States hasn’t even come close. As often happens here, that failure has become a focal point for partisan bickering. It’s easy to yell that it’s all Trump’s fault, or that China is to blame. It’s simple to fight over whether or not we should be ordered to wear masks.
But the reality of our failure is deeper and more nuanced, I think.
Unlike virtually every other nation on earth, in our hyper-capitalist country when people are out of work, they are also out of insurance. The prospect of millions of people who are unable to pay for medical care is daunting at the best of times. During this pandemic, it could conceivably cripple our profit-based medical system, which is mandated by law to treat people even if they can’t pay for it.
