The funny thing is, what Americans call communism is in fact what Europeans call social democracy - i.e. capitalism with a variable amount of social-oriented restraints on it that simply make sense and work for the benefit of everybody, including the rich. And to a large extent, social democracy works fairly well in Europe. And I know that cuz I moved there, and I would never go back to Stupidland.

I am poor and the government is taking away a good chunk of my money. I don't think it's going to the poor though....

before climate change makes coffee nearly extinct and exclusive to the rich.

nobody believed they were poor when that word had more meaning. back in the day poor meant shopping at the salvation army, and it meant driving a 20 year old datsun that wouldn't start without spraying carburator fluid, and it meant flashing food stamps at the local grocery when a carton of eggs was 39 cents. poor people had to go up on the telephone pole to install cable TV back then, nowadays they can pirate entertainment.

nowadays a poor can still have 5k in credit and drive a BMW that came off the assembly line in the last 10 years. back then, a poor wouldn't even have a color TV unless they inherited it from their uncle johnny.

the life of the poor hasn't gotten better in real terms but their lifestyle is much better at projecting class inward and outward.