Exactly. The words used to describe the model are just that. Words. The ruling class is always shitty people who have their heads in the clouds. They cannot fathom the struggles of the working class and have no idea how to actually make things better. It doesn’t matter how you structure the government when our rulers are always human-shaped embodiments of shit.

I understand why my post above gets so many downvotes. It’s natural for people to want to believe they have an answer that works. That what they believe in is correct and everyone else is wrong. I’m telling you that everyone is wrong, and we don’t have a model that works. Nobody wants to hear that, but it’s the answer I’ve arrived to after thinking about politics and economics for decades. It’s also why the people are so susceptible to demagogues. A man with a plan will come along, tell everyone what they want to hear, and lead society towards its next mass atrocity. It’s going to happen again. It will happen here in the USA. You can bet on it.

Here in NY we have 1 year leases capped at an increase of 3% per year. However landlords can increase rent another 3% if they can show that they had to do upgrades or emergency repairs or some other nonsense. They’ve applied for and received this exemption to double our increase EVERY SINGLE YEAR I’ve lived there, and it seems there is nothing to stop them from doing it every year until the end of time.

The infuriating thing? There are no actual upgrades being done. The roads are constantly full of potholes. The water lines constantly spring leaks. The power is constantly cutting out - brownouts are common, and blackouts happen every winter. We are responsible for paying all our utilities, mowing the lawn, and maintaining our lots, and the office is apparently responsible for nothing and spends nothing upgrading or maintaining the park. But somehow they qualify for that extra 3% increase every single year without fail.

• I live in a trailer park owned by Horizon Land Management. There are youtube videos detailing how trailer parks used to be cheap housing for the poor, but now that private equity companies like Horizon are buying them up, they’re raising lot rent sky high and parasitizing the people who are so poor they can’t afford to leave. Trailers were the cheapest housing many of us could afford. Where else could we go? They basically suck the blood out of us like vampires.

It’s two sides of the same coin. Everyone likes capitalism in the early days when there are lots of entrepreneurs and small businesses competing against each other. Mom and pop can run a family store. There’s a strong middle class and national prosperity.

But it doesn’t last, and capitalism always morphs into crony capitalism, where monopolies run everything and lawmakers are bribed to protect the rich and exploit the poor. It’s functionally no different from communism, which is a political and economic model (yes its both) that just speedruns straight to late stage oligarchy.

Both crony capitalism and communism concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a few oligarchs that control most of the nation’s resources. Both hand majority control over to one or a handful of major political parties. Both involve high degrees of bribery, corruption, and accumulation of wealth and power with the goal of exploiting the masses.

Marx was a liar and a terrorist. His work has done more harm to humanity than nuclear weapons. Communism is a blueprint that tricks the naive, the gullible, and the stupid and in every single instance without fail causes violent revolution that incorporates genocide to put the absolute worst people in power so they can oppress and tyrannize those weaker than them.

Crony Capitalism is the same end, it just takes longer and dresses the whole thing up in mask and gown and plays a charade to keep people from realizing the truth.

The human race has an inherent flaw. We can’t govern ourselves properly. Every single model of government we have ends up abusing the people who the government is supposed to represent. We don’t have a model of government that actually works as intended.