The only way to defeat the destructive force of capitalism is with socialism. I'm not talking about the complete ownership of the means of production by the people, but a democratic place at the table for the people as stakeholders in making decisions. Stakeholders will veto decisions that only benefit shareholders and will suggest avenues that take into consideration more than just profits.
Our government once filled that role with regulation and taxation, but the forces of both authoritarian fascism and its only slightly kinder, gentler brother, neoliberalism, now occupy our government totally. The people, the rightful owners of our nation, have been relegated to "commodities", subject to supply and demand for their labor and forced into servitude by manipulation of the public purse responsibility Constitutionally mandated to Congress.
Capitalism begins with the false premise that the nation's sovereign currency is limited/scarce so that government will also be so limited as the people can "afford" or find value in. It also assumes that the resources available to it are endless and without cost. The people, out of necessity to find sufficient currency to "fund" their own economy, are willing to accept this backward concept, seeing the wealthy and their corporations as the "source" of the currency and their government as a "cost" to them.
This, while completely false on both counts, means that GDP, the sum of all transactions denominated in the government's currency, must continually increase to cover both profit of business and the interest it pays banking. Any hiccups in the rate of growth can only result in default to banking and the "trickle down" of recession and inflation.
A government, purchased at wholesale such as ours, will create massive amounts of its currency to feed the gluttony of capitalists before securing the fiscal security of the people in spite of overwhelming evidence of the futility of doing so, Any attempt to assure the fiscal security of the working class will directly oppose the hold business has on it, so will not be allowed.
