As someone who doesn't have any particular problem with capitalism, and thinks all the handwringing over it is largely misplaced... I'm not watching a 40 minute interview where someone I've never heard of talks about something I don't care about.
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I can't stand people like her.
She makes the bizarre statement that the ability to tax individuals in a capitalistic market economy and also feed and house everyone are mutually exclusive.
She also implies the welfare would somehow be accomplished in a world without private ownership AKA ether anarchy or otherwise complete public ownership by the state, which is demonstrably false.
She is the reason nobody takes socialists seriously, with her fringe extreme beliefs. The world would be better if she stopped wasting her time on complete economic and government restructuring into an imaginary utopia which we have attempted over and over to create, unsuccessfully, and instead helped the rest of us tax the rich, update our election process, hold bad people accountable, and fund those necessary services.
She is really smart and thoughtful. Good, enlightening, interview. I'm going to go read her book.
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