Depends on your definition of funneling money to the top. You need a decentralized economic system designed not to behave like late stage capitalism.

One example of this is Parecon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_economics

Honestly though, most of our problems are not driven by our economic system so much as our culture. You have to face that just about everyone worships greed whether they like to admit it or not.

In the US it is extremely pronounced and we even have idolized phrases about it like “fuck you money”. Where you have enough money that you can do whatever you want and you no longer have to follow the rules.

There is obvious a problem with our culture, but it is not just the US. Fascism is pretty much everywhere and even the most progressive countries still have huge wealth gaps that are always slowly widening.

Democracies cannot exist with large wealth gaps unless the wealth is aggressively kept out of politics. This is extremely hard and that is why the majority of all policies in all governments all over the world are driven by corporations.

The US was founded by the rich for the rich. Anything else is just convenient propaganda to convince the masses otherwise.

I about shit my pants when I saw Oklahoma was inviting them into their classrooms.

Reminds me of when I lived in Idaho and they brought guest speakers into my children’s school to explain that watching porn makes people serial killers.

Edit: and now Oklahoma has invited Turning Point

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/24/turning-point-oklahoma-high-schools

Nothing like a women leader who denounces feminism when they would not be a leader without it.

Extreme viewpoints on immigration. Doesn’t Trump constantly make inflammatory and objectively false statements about immigrants? Are we seriously expecting them to compile a list with Donald Trump at the top.

Radical gender ideology. I am sorry, but have they even proved this is somehow harmful. Where is the proof radical gender ideology is even a problem!? It effects such a small portion of the population it is ridiculous to even bring it up.

Anti-American sentiment. You mean like being racist, anti immigration, calling for death or punishment of those who disagree with you. People trying to tear down government agencies? You can’t make this shit up. So once again are we expected to believe they are making a list with MAGA at the top

Absolute garbage when we have insane issues we are dealing with everyday. Monumental waste of time. They are going to be taking agents off important cases for this hogwash. This type of misuse and abuse of governmental agencies is criminal in nature.

It is always based upon skills. DEI just asks employers to consider hiring outside white males. This is a bridge too far for racists.

When I was in college I had a cohort and one of my colleagues was from an Eastern European country. He was married and had a few kids. He was trying to find a good daycare and came to me very confused.

He said that daycare where he was from was free and very high quality. They had set curriculum, good food, and the government checked in weekly to make sure the facilities were run correctly. He asked why all the US daycares were run down, no curriculum, poor food, poor worker pay, and also extremely expensive.

Here is a guy from a country we would probably look down upon just flabbergasted by our shitty daycare system. It was a real eye opener for me. Needless to say it is entirely possible to improve these facilities.

I think you are right though, unless we start trying to fix these problems holding our breathe is not going to help.

The best option is not to allow corporations to buy up and run assisted living centers to maximize profit. It is apparent that the US government should also be subsidizing and highly monitoring these facilities. They should have strict requirements for activities and care, no more laissez-faire regulating.

There are definitely valid criticism about the EU and its many processes. The bureaucracy, undemocratic representation, and issues around sovereignty are just a few to name.

Having said that, they have done far more to reign in our digital future than anyone else. So it is not all bad.

I think it says a lot when people remark they would rather be dead than in a assisted care facility. Something is clearly wrong with our system.

Yeah, I totally get the American hate. When it comes to history and even current government policy it is well deserved.

I also agree that stringent wealth caps must be policy. This is not even controversial at this point. In the US we tried trickle down. It has been a dramatic failure.

I don’t think you are irrational at all. I think you may not be seeing the bigger picture and lashing out against things that are not really the problem.

Dementia Don forgot we called it soccer again, nurse!

Don’t worry, King Trump will just declare a national bankruptcy. /S

You make excellent points. I truly believe with open source and some investments that every government can host everything they need internally.

I think this could have been done twenty years ago, but it is never too late to invest in our collective software future instead of letting corporations monopolize everything.

As far as social media, they will have to comply or exit the market. I would be wary of places like Zombie Twitter. They have already been proven to interfere with elections in other countries.

We are obviously facing a lot of policy making in order to reign in our digital future. Unfortunately, the US shows exactly zero appetite to pump the breaks. Let alone pull the ebrake and come to a screeching halt like they need to.

We don’t need to be reminded that Meta and Microsoft have contributed server resources to enacting a genocide. Even IBM helped the Nazi with their final solution during WWII. American companies are absolutely not to be trusted.

I did some basic research and made some assumptions. 1-2 million cocaine users that self identify. More likely 10-20 million users with a lot of those being casual take it or leave it users. Probably just under a million chronic users.

So let’s just say about million grams a day over a million users. That is about two tons. I think this is probably an underestimate, honestly.

Obviously my methodology is not great, just rough guesses based upon the best information.

https://www.samhsa.gov/data

A rough estimate for cocaine use alone would be anywhere from 4,000-12,000 pounds a day for illicit US use. It is a staggering amount of drugs that need to be made or imported for US citizens.

They also need to send several more times than this to keep supply flowing because of interdiction, waste, and shrinkage. So we are talking about 100,000-250,000 pounds of all illicit drugs every single day.

The War On Drugs was unbelievable success for it’s true intentions. A lot of people don’t understand that it was really a war on minorities. At best it was a political tool to suppress the public and at worst it was a multigenerational genocide.

Instead of giving people the hope and tools for a better future, our government used it to strip our rights, normalize police militarization, destroys countless families, and let people die from overdoses needlessly.

The loss of life is staggering. The dramatic drop in quality of life is mind boggling. The reparations the government would owe if this reality would reach the masses would be easily a hundred trillion dollars if you also count the destruction in Mexico and South America.

It is time for the EU to kick out all these too big to fail corporations that are openly hostile to European culture. Megacorporations are a direct threat to all citizens rights.

Do people realize how much drugs are brought into the US everyday? These small boats wouldn’t even be able to supply a small city. This is a complete joke. War on Drugs theatre.

Did you forget decades of drone strikes with highlights such as blowing up a civilian wedding?

You are not wrong, just a couple hundred years late to the party.

Hey, I get it. You don’t have answers and that is okay. Nationalism is always a symptom of a deeper problem and also relies on hiding the truth.

I told you the US was way worse than China. That makes me MAGA?

I think you are just confused and frustrated and really don’t know what the fuck you are saying at this point. I encourage you to continue examining your opinions. Cheers!