Economic Update TV Show: China's Economic Record & Strategy... Their System is working better than ours... REAL WAGES increased over the last 20 years in China while REAL WAGES declined in the USA...

A person could buy more with their paycheck in 1973 than they can now... in the USA... CHINA'S Economy is BOOMING! Richard Wolff

https://www.democracyatwork.info/eu_china_economic_record_strategy

Elizabeth Warren Has Proposed TWO New Laws. The Anti Corruption Act and The Capitalism Accountability Act.

https://www.vox.com/2018/8/21/17765058/elizabeth-warren-speech-anti-corruption-public-integrity-act-bill-lobbying-trump
Read Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s speech unveiling a sweeping new anti-corruption bill.

and...

https://www.vox.com/2018/8/15/17683022/elizabeth-warren-accountable-capitalism-corporations 
Elizabeth Warren has a plan to save capitalism...

She’s unveiling a bill to make corporations great again

Elizabeth Warren proposes TWO new Laws

Elizabeth Warren’s Accountable Capitalism Act... An idea whose time has come... Require 40% of the Board of Directors to be employees.

https://www.vox.com/2018/8/15/17683022/elizabeth-warren-accountable-capitalism-corporations

Elizabeth Warren has a plan to save capitalism.
She’s unveiling a bill to make corporate governance great again. she’s introducing a bill Wednesday, the Accountable Capitalism Act, that would redistribute trillions of dollars from rich executives and shareholders to the middle class — without costing a dime.

The conceit tying together Warren’s ideas is that if corporations are going to have the legal rights of persons, they should be expected to act like decent citizens who uphold their fair share of the social contract and not act like sociopaths whose sole obligation is profitability — as is currently conventional in American business thinking.

Compulsive Hoarding of Money Syndrome CAN BE CURED.

While the historical solutions of the USA in 1776 and France in 1789 appear appealing on first glance, they would simply not work in a global economy of 2017. A 12 step program might be more efficient. Greed Freaks Anonymous can help the most absurdly addicted capitalists.

Maybe we should become Allies with Russia. End the Cold War and learn how to do business together.

What if Trump's right? What if all this anti-Russian panic is absurd? Why don't we stop with all the fear and loathing an let Exxon Mobil drill for oil in Siberia? We had a good partnership in World War Two. Then there was decades of bizarre anti-communist panic.

Well, The Russians simply want to make America another subject country bowing down to Putin's every desire. They already have Czar Donald the Puppet dancing on their strings...

I heard that during the 1950s Senator Joe McCarthy and the House In American Activities Committee hassled folksingers like Pete Seeger about whether or not he was a member of the communist party. People in Hollywood had their careers ruined because the government was afraid that they would use the power of films to influence public opinion and allow Commie Ideas to brainwash the masses. Seems absurd now...

Then we fought wars in Korea, Vietnam and Nicaragua to prevent creeping Communism from taking over the World. Well, we found out that even the USSR and China didn't like Communism. Not much danger of that economic system taking over... In the mean time, the USA lost over 50,000 lives and spent trillions of dollars fighting an enemy that was doomed to fail from within.

Why don't we just learn to get along? Sure, their country has problems. For example: they kill newspaper reporters that criticize Putin and they let their "Mafia" steal all the "Worker's Assets". Yes, THEY have troubles but are they not our troubles but THEIRS? Shouldn't we stop trying to "Improve" their government's behavior by imposing Sanctions? Why can't we be friends?

If we stopped believing the Cold War Brainwashing maybe everyone would be better off...

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We live in Feudalism 2.0 and Wage Slavery. Employee Owned Businesses or Customer Owned Businesses are a better way.

What we have today is an economic system where the super rich have purchased Senators and Congressmen who pass laws designed to steal from the poor and give to the rich.  It's a lot like Feudalism where the Lords owned the land and the peasants worked it as serfs. Nowadays we are wage slaves. There IS an alternative...

WINCO is an example of an employee owned business.
https://www.wincofoods.com/

North Coast CO-OP grocery store is an example of a customer owned business. http://www.northcoast.coop/

Coast Central Credit Union is an alternative to Giant Banks like Bank of America. It was "Too big to fail" so the taxpayers paid for their real estate gambling addiction.
https://www.coastccu.org/

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Great Book:What Then Must We Do...  Gar Alperovitz talked about his book, What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution, in which he argues that the U.S. economy needs to be more responsive to ordinary citizens. He also talked about the need to build on the “Occupy” movement.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?312536-1/must

Democracy Collaborative engages with communities and institutions to connect them with innovative strategies, models and training to build community wealth in their neighborhoods.
http://democracycollaborative.org/

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Yes, there is an alternative to capitalism: Mondragon shows the way by Richard Wolff.

Are we to believe, with Margaret Thatcher, that an economic system with endlessly repeated cycles, costly bailouts for financiers and now austerity for most people is the best human beings can do? Capitalism's recurring tendencies toward extreme and deepening inequalities of income, wealth, and political and cultural power require resignation and acceptance – because there is no alternative?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jun/24/alternative-capitalism-mondragon

The Mondragon Corporation is a corporation and federation of worker cooperatives based in the Basque region of Spain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation

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I'm impressed by the G20 protesters. Burning baracades in the middle of the street makes for good TV coverage.

We should learn from them and use that tactic in the future...

I believe that Putin played Trump. I'm glad that they had a good meeting, but in general, the fact that the Russians had press conferences after words means that the world only heard their side of the story. Putin said that he didn't hack the USA elections and Trump... we will never know what Trump said. What we do know is that Putin appeared to be a strong leader. German police impressed me with the fact that no one was killed. They managed to keep the riot under control and let both the Summit and the protest happen safely.

The protesters do need to be more clear about their message. What IS anti-capitalism? IS that their message? They ought to make a website explaining their goals with a simple address that they can put on signs... so TV viewers can read what they are protesting about...  the only one I found was diem25...

 https://diem25.org/

"DiEM25 is a pan-European, cross-border movement of democrats.
We believe that the European Union is disintegrating. Europeans are losing their faith in the possibility of European solutions to European problems. At the same time as faith in the EU is waning, we see a rise of misanthropy, xenophobia and toxic nationalism.
If this development is not stopped, we fear a return to the 1930s. That is why we have come together despite our diverse political traditions - Green, radical left, liberal - in order to repair the EU. The EU needs to become a realm of shared prosperity, peace and solidarity for all Europeans. We must act quickly, before the EU disintegrates."

Professor Richard Wolff questions IF Capitalism is a good way to run a world. NO. Too crisis prone... Economic meltdowns are built into the system.

http://www.rdwolff.com/

He proposes a different system...

Opinion

Yes, there is an alternative to capitalism: Mondragon shows the way

Richard Wolff

Why are we told a broken system that creates vast inequality is the only choice? Spain's amazing co-op is living proof otherwise

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jun/24/alternative-capitalism-mondragon

Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism -- by Richard Wolff
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhzBq15p_f0

Most Americans have never recovered from the recession of 2008 and the outsourcing, mechanizing, robotizing and computerizing of their jobs. Men’s salaries and working conditions have been deteriorating since the mid 1970s. Women’s salaries have increased to 77% of men’s low salaries. Americans are emotionally depressed. We consume 50% of the world’s psych meds and 80% of the world’s heroin. Suicides addiction obesity and other social ills have increased. Too many are in despair. This panel explains what happened, why it happened and what to do about it.
http://www.democracyatwork.info/