Why You Should Be A Socialist In 2023

Happy New Year! You've probably heard a lot of talk about socialism becoming more popular over the past few years. There's a reason for that! The capitalist system has shown itself to be incapable of solving the problems it creates, and more and more people are living a worse life than their parents or grandparents. What's going on here, and is socialism the way forward?

Why You Should Be A Socialist In 2023 – Second Thought
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Citations and Further Reading:

Ten richest double their wealth while bottom 99% of humanity’s fall/would still be richer than 99% of the world after 99.99% loss
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releas...

Nearly 100 million fall under $1.90/day during COVID
https://blogs.worldbank.org/developme...

Bosses bet on workers getting COVID
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-can...

Layoffs during COVID
​​https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2021/tem...

Why Socialism? - Albert Einstein
https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/...

45% of new created wealth goes to top 1%/CEOs make 350x what their workers do/Wages are lower than 50 years ago/half of Americans live paycheck to paycheck/$50T transfer of wealth from bottom 90% to top 1% since 1975
https://www.theguardian.com/commentis...

Vacation days & paid time off
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/05/heres...

Maternity leave
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...

Gender pay gap
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank...

Legal & societal changes growing the gap between productivity and wages
https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-...

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