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Related: About this forumA majority of millennials now reject capitalism, poll shows
The Harvard University survey, which polled young adults between ages 18 and 29, found that 51 percent of respondents do not support capitalism. Just 42 percent said they support it.
It isn't clear that the young people in the poll would prefer some alternative system, though. Just 33 percent said they supported socialism. The survey had a margin of error of 2.4 percentage points.
The results of the survey are difficult to interpret, pollsters noted. Capitalism can mean different things to different people, and the newest generation of voters is frustrated with the status quo, broadly speaking.
All the same, that a majority of respondents in Harvard University's survey of young adults said they do not support capitalism suggests that today's youngest voters are more focused on the flaws of free markets.
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SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)fluffyclouds
(51 posts)These old timers like Clinton are on their last leg and just trying to get their name in the history books and money in their pockets before what is coming within the next 15 yrs.
wendylaroux
(2,925 posts)like what they'll say about them.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)an era get good marks in a history book.
Svafa
(594 posts)that many, many people in my generation feel the same way.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)RepubliCON-Watch
(559 posts)And of course my generation hates capitalism. An economic collapse will do that to ya.
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)That's cool it's so great that young people are starting to think beyond capitalism.
I hope they also are thinking about what kind of system they do want, and what it would take to make it happen.
Hydra
(14,459 posts)And what good news. Times are a changin'...I just don't know if it's fast enough :/
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)We all know where it trickled ... or should I say the gushed. To the top 1% of this country.
nikto
(3,284 posts)Unregulated Capitalism leads to crime and corruption
like accumulating garbage leads to cockroaches.
2 + 2 = 4
Gman
(24,780 posts)And socialism? Forget it. I can hear it now. "Socialism? Ummm. Well, ummm..."
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)Free stuff.
Socialism is great until the gun is put to your head.
Socialism is taking from hard working people and giving to druggies, welfare queens, foreigners and free-loaders who are too lazy or stupid to work.
Do I really need the icon?
Gman
(24,780 posts)But ya had me going.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)zentrum
(9,866 posts)..they figured it out, given the tremendous, constant pro-capitalist propaganda all around.
Very hopeful.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)the young are not tuning in (at least not in large numbers) to TV media. They are getting their info elsewhere.
pansypoo53219
(21,696 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)jomin41
(559 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)What goes under the label of "free market" (Reaganomics, neoliberalism, supply-side, trickle-down) isn't capitalism; it's fraud. A healthy economy cannot be dominated by a parasitic industry like banking and finance. The whole scheme is to cycle and recycle debt. We need oil, so let's go to war and claim our oil under the Arabs' sand. Going to war is very, very expensive, so we go into debt. Get a college education, one goes into debt. Can't make ends meet with all that debt? Don't worry, the bank will extend your credit, and then extend it some more. Banking is a funny industry. Money in the bank may be an asset to you and me, but it's a liability to the bank; the bank has to pay you interest on your savings. On the other hand, your debt is an asset to the bank, because you're going to pay it back, someday. You may have to go into your savings, but if the the system starts to collapse, they may legally steal your savings first.
Isn't banking deregulation and modernization wonderful? There's no such thing a fraud. Fraud is legal, and if it's legal, then it isn't fraud, is it?
I'm not young and haven't been for a long time, but I certainly don't blame young people today for turning way from anything so decadent as the free market. This certainly isn't my Dad's capitalism.
elmac
(4,642 posts)and will destroy democracy if the economic revolution doesn't succeed,
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Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)for illustrating my post!
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TBF
(34,179 posts)LongTomH
(8,636 posts)......both capitalism and socialism as we know them are obsolete. That was a brave statement then; it still is; but, it looks like more people are agreeing.
Tarc
(10,575 posts)Eugene Debs ran for the presidency 5 times and lost, and Bernie Sanders is about to make it 0-for-6 for democratic socialism in America. We don't need it, but thanks for trying.
TBF
(34,179 posts)please delete your post or I will block you.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)TBF
(34,179 posts)we were just talking yesterday in this group about doing a primer on socialism.
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)boost and generated hopefully some curiosity if nothing else.