Our economy produces tremendous wealth but it also produces tremendous poverty. Sure, some people can be lazy, but when large numbers of hard working people live in poverty and the middle class is shrinking, it is a systemic, not an individual problem. There is plenty to go around, but it doesn't adequately go around. It goes to the top, and leaves the masses to fight over the crumbs.

That L-curve represents unbridled and unregulated capitalism. Greed capitalism. When you have an unregulated system that concentrates all the wealth at the top, capitalism will eventually and inevitably grind to a halt. It devours itself. For there to be prosperity, money has to flow. ...

Our economy produces tremendous wealth but it also produces tremendous poverty. Sure, some people can be lazy, but when large numbers of hard working people live in poverty and the middle class is shrinking, it is a systemic, not an individual problem. There is plenty to go around, but it doesn't adequately go around. It goes to the top, and leaves the masses to fight over the crumbs.

That L-curve represents unbridled and unregulated capitalism. Greed capitalism. When you have an unregulated system that concentrates all the wealth at the top, capitalism will eventually and inevitably grind to a halt. It devours itself. For there to be prosperity, money has to flow. Buying, selling, back and forth,.so if no one has any money to buy anything, then who cares what you're selling?

Unbridled capitalism does NOT alleviate poverty. It creates it. Capitalism only benefits those with money, so the solution is, logically, to make sure there is money in the hands of everyone. That can be more or less, but unless everyone in a society can play the game, it's game over. Seems like that point in time is about to be reached reeeal soon