Tech Workers Backing Candidates Looking to Break Up Their Employers
The only reason anyone in the US supports these people is because they have never lived in the socialist big government utopia these politicians champion.  In fact, not even the politicians themselves have lived in the society  they propose!  How is that for a brilliant starting point.<p>Ask anyone who has experienced these ideas in the flesh and you’ll find someone absolutely perplexed that US voters don’t laugh these people out of office.<p>As the saying goes: In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.<p>All US voters really know about these ideas are the promises and a distorted theory and history that conveniently leaves out the horror, the reality, of these ideas.  They have been implemented time and time again in various forms across continents and time.  And they have laid to waste everything they touch.<p>You’d think people would have learned better by now.  Sadly, that required an educational system rooted in fair historical exposure rather than one that pushes a single ideology at every level.  This ignorance of history leads to repeating mistakes.<p>Here is the other fact that absolutely floors me:  Nobody can name a single nation —not one— which, after adopting these policies, has elevated itself to a level even remotely resembling the success and accomplishments that can be attributed to free market capitalism.<p>Sure, capitalism isn’t perfect, nothing ever will be, yet it has elevated more people out of poverty, cured more disease and improved the lives of more people than anything else in recorded history.<p>The allure of these twisted ideas comes at the intersection of a badly educated public and the promise of solving all problems by taking from those who have more.  Easy proposition.<p>Reality is that it never solves anything and often creates more problems.  The $15&#x2F;hr minimum wage “solution” is one of the best modern examples of this effects.<p>The other element naive supporters miss is that the politicians proposing these ideas never live the reality they want you to live.  They never live it before or after they are elected.  See if you can name even a single politician who has, anywhere in the world and across modern history.  That should tell you something.