RE: Socialism will Never Work
The 1% won't get far in this century if they don't realize it's not them the world need but those labourers who are also the consumers that they need increase their income/spending power to create new markets and economy. The vocal lower half in developed countries are already voicing out strongly self interest but its the millions in developing or third world countries facing daily starvation, slavery, poor living conditions that deserve real sympathy. Even those living off the grid how many can 100% confident determine that every food, products they use or wear does not involve people living less than $2 a day as part of the labor.
I agree that the 1% is reckless, but the problem is not with them. Its with the system and how it's setup.
The moment you cant reason with humans, that moment you have lost the rational debate. You can sit down and reason with any hedge fund manager. But how do you sit down and reason with masses of poor people who are filled with anger and envy toward the rich. They would easily become hotheaded and start to initiate violence.
It's not like you can explain to people why minimum wage doesn't work, and why taxes are making everyone poorer. They just want to feed their family and dont care about a rational economic discussion.
This is the problem, this is the entire problem. This is why demagogues rise to power, they controll the masses , not through rational arguments, but through incitement to violence.
Hitler, Lenin, all of them, have played the masses through emotional manipulation. And how do you propose to solve the problem when these people can't be reasoned with?
It's like trying to reason with an angry bull that is charging toward you. How?
The 1% are only part of the problems who influenced most of the corrupted system. That's why they need new scheme of donating 99% of wealth to hide their wealth and prevent further public outrage. Only if the fund managers are selected randomly in 100s or 1000s like juries then I believe they are really that charitable and not just evading taxes.
God only stand on the side with the bigger cannons. As much as I would like to believe man are born good and they should live freely without any restriction (the only tribe I know is the sentinelese that have no written law or constitution etc to rule them, even thou India claim their island) Human are intelligent beings but also extremely probe to emotionally incitement like you said. In this current world we just need list the fact and figure and set in the threshold when certain number is exceeded, the degree of punishment will rise automatically like the stock exchange.
People protest and riot is only because the petitions are useless and legal procedures too long are not enough to get them basic justice. An angry bull charging is a rare event to me because I won't go to attend any of Spain bull run and if it's humans I dealing with, either suppress them or kill them in self-defence. I won't be Jesus waiting to be crucified because there might be a mob and I as a planner don't have the foresight to anticipate such events.
Every system on earth is already complicated enough with all pro and con well debated over the centuries but the stupidity is to think one system can only exist on one principle. Good intent policies/actions are all covered by hyprocrisy of politicians to the maximum extent that Iraq war can still go unpunished till today. Not surprise rise of trump or durtuete type of speech can only make people feel more secured than hate them if they even had time to think properly. The faults are mainly in the financial and legal system, not the lack of solutions. When the cases of injustice piled up like those rich and powerful getting away too often then I rather use the guilty till proven innocence approach when you don't see once in a century type of case anymore. The school killings, bank frauds, rapes get unpunished, etc all sort of new crimes that sometimes went out of the legal coverage especially in IT advancement or even scientific range. Solutions are simple and it's not new tech close to driver-less car required but implementation is always stuck at legistrative or government bodies.
Find me a person that after so long that trade had cross all borders but not a single person can be respectably elected world president. UN is by choice of elite and not by votes. Now there is also thinking of election of parliamentarians by lottery like how juries are chosen which is in right direction. If all government personnel had a body cam like police had and a stock index openly rating all their actions and policies with full transparency, then my project is half way towards redundancy. Now all the bad news and facts are already out in today's fast social media and the continuous complaints serve no purpose if people can't rationally sit down and build the system of solutions together instead. It's not knowledge or words we need from every activists of all causes but actions that we can identify out of all the common interest to unify everyone instead of thousands more NGOs that always can't group together and get pathetic results. Unity is strength and it's not invented today. Self-interest is only for those doom to fail.
I liek to use the infamous "I'm not a scientist" on me but I can think outside the box and identify from a third party the solutions easily in each country. like China need more democracy and US need more communisn or even dictatorship to reunify.
Last fact is we can talk about freedom, privacy, human rights, LGBT, abortion, equality, climate etc etc. Billions living under USD2 per day never have luxury to think about all these issues. If someone else really work on the project to unify them and represent them on a platform like FB and give them a USD$30 smartphone (from India) to register under blockchain, give them UBI of $500 monthly, create social business entities, group them together for bigger loans and register offshore to run tax like the rich did legally, easily 50% of all world problems solved in a year!