Comment on Why does the USA have so few legal protections for ordinary people, and how can we change that?

chemicalprophet@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• GiddyGap@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  European countries are also capitalist countries, but they have much better consumer protections and laws. It can be done.

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  • Allonzee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think such protections have to happen BEFORE the market capitalists are able to use their immense hoards of power, that’s what capital is at scale, to capture their own governments and regulators that were supposed to act as a firewall protecting regular citizens from them, as the market capitalists have in the United States for almost half a century.

    Once that happens. Good fucking luck. Greed doesn’t let go of what it acquires.

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