>

5? 5!!??? Ron told me it was FISH!!
YOU LYING SMOBERK.
Excerpt:

Utah high schoolers would be required to learn about the "superiority" of American free markets under new guidelines the state school board is considering this week.
Teachers would have to "explain why free market systems are superior and have made America the most free and prosperous country in the world" under new standards proposed for financial literacy courses.
All students are required to take the class to graduate from public high schools in Utah.
The addition will "make sure … [students] walk away without any question in their mind, regardless of how it might have been presented … that this is the superior system," Cline said.
Utah's financial literacy classes, which the Legislature began requiring in 2007, have drawn scrutiny for outdated advice and occasional forays into non-financial, personal subject matter.

Erin Alberty, 2 Feb. 2023, Axios (Cox Enterprises) >


The addition will "make sure … [students] walk away without any question in their mind, regardless of how it might have been presented … that this is the superior system," Cline said.

Ah, yes. Good. The purpose of schooling is to create nationalists who KNOW their country is the best. As opposed to the ability to think and critique the system they live in so it can be improved. >

I'm surprised they didnt bother writing "...or else" at the end. Why be redundant, right? >


I'm surprised they didnt bother writing "...or else" at the end. Why be redundant, right?

That's the beauty of it, they don't have to... because of the implications. >

But they can say no, right? >

Of course!
but they wouldn't dare. >

…because of the implications. >

... the consequences will never be the same >

Can you imagine the teacher explaining all of this and how great it is. Looking at the students, silently for a minute. Students murmur and the silence is broken by the teacher slamming the textbook onto their desk.
"Fuck this place, I can make more at Costco." >

My wife is a teacher in Utah… and yeah this last month we have legit had conversations about her switching to work at Costco… >

Yeah they pay a decent wage, have ok benefits, and don't treat their employees like complete garbage. So a vast improvement over teaching. >

Yeah, we just lost a child and it was a great way to find out Davis District doesn’t give employees bereavement leave >

Quit. Your family needs you more than Davis District. >

It’s my wife that works for the district and yeah the one thing we’ve decided 100% is this is the last year at Davis >

A man who must proclaim he is king, is no king >

Flawless logic. Apparently the 24/7 corporate owned media, and corporate owned internet, aren’t indoctrinating hard enough on behalf of capitalism, so the “small-gubberment“ “free market” folks are going to use big government to do it for them (on the public dime, ofcourse)!
In the 1960’s the Australian conservative party subsidised home ownership specifically to oppose communism (and ownership rose from ~35% to ~70% in 2 decades), because they understood that citizens who were given fruits for their labor (land ownership and economic wealth/security) would be less likely to oppose capitalism. If capitalist evangelicals actually wanted the population to believe the current system is the best, they’d ensure high living standards for all, and protect citizens from greed. Over the last 50 years they’ve done the exact opposite, because they are greed incarnate. >

"See kids, the reason you'll never be able to afford a house and will die from preventable illnesses is because American Capitalism is Fucking Awesome!" >

I'm from Utah and in our mandatory "Financial Literacy" classes we are taught that we can buy a house in cash by the time we turn 20 as long as we don't buy coffee ever and never use a bank. >

i... i can't tell if you're joking or not. >

Oh I wish I was >

Wheres that pic of the hedgehog screaming at the ground when you need it >

Suuuure, "free" country that locks up more citizens, even per capita, than Russia and China combined. Free to be poor and incarcerated. Or to be one of millions upon millions of felons who can't even get bonded to drive a truck! >

Go on YouTube look up "Newsroom. America Is not the greatest country" listen to it. It's remarkable. >

Will do, probably old news for me tho. But thanks, I'll check it out. >

It's like the current Republicans want to reshape America in the image of Russia in the 90s. >

Tbf Americans have a lot od experience in creating 90s Russian hellscape >

And they may have empowered Putin in the process. >

So capitalism... wants the government... to step in and make mandatory standards... >

Capitalism literally controls our government so yep. >

I'm Canadian, just enjoying the irony from afar >

The Ontario government is currently working with investors to privatize public healthcare and public education, much like they did with highway 407, in the 90’s. 
Social safety nets for the rich. Rugged individualism for the poor.  Capitalist interests are corrupting government services and public spending in Canada, too. >

I know, I'm not claiming that isn't happening here too.  Trust me I point out the issues with the Ford government as well. >

U.S. capitalism: where if you’re willing to exploit your fellow man, you too can be wealthy. >

This has greater irony in Utah, since the giant issue with the Great Salt Lake losing too much water because it's supply is being siphoned off is primarily due to certain people in power exploiting their fellow man for financial gain. >

Not to mention that whole cult running the state government >

In related news, high school graduates from Florida and Utah will no longer be admitted to any out of state colleges. >

Utah is late we’re onto menstrual cycles now >

Something tells me if we give it a few years Utah will become worse than florida >

You can’t have fascism without propaganda. >

So much winning.
Highest Capitalist cost for Healthcare, worst outcomes. >

Tbf it is possible to create a private market for healthcare that actually works. Somehow the US adopted the worst aspects of private insurance with the worst aspects of socialized insurance to give us the mess we have today. Literally if we go in either direction (more socialized or more privatized with regulations) we'd be better off. >

I was developing Physician Billing software when the Health Insurance mega-corps were just starting to form.
They should never have been allowed to own Healthcare Facilities. 
Now they set the customer rates and they set the Physician fees and they set how much they charge themselves for those fees.
Hospitals have to have unnecessary bed checks and tests just to wean enough money from their owners to keep the lights on. >

So its down to Soviet style propaganda? >

You could change the conditions or just make describing reality illegal. >

10/10 >

bot account
edit: banned? :D >

US capitalism is objectively the worst type there is. The entire modern developed world does capitalism better than the US. >


US capitalism

You misspelled kleptocracy. >

End goal of any capitalist. Some ate just held back. I don't see the benefit in allowing it in general >

This is insanity, especially since this isn't even remotely true and is just propaganda. >

I mean... Mormonism is pretty much literally American exceptionalism as a religion. So this is pretty much on brand. >

Yooooo that really is a good way to summarize it 🤔 >

From the wiki page on american exceptionalism:

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) believes that the Americas, including the United States, are a unique place,[26] populated by a chosen people and the native americans are, at least in part, composed of Lamanites[27] and Mormons for a singular destiny, linking the United States to the Biblical promised land in the Book of Mormon, with the Constitution of the United States being divinely inspired. Joseph Smith argued that the millennial New Jerusalem was to be built in America (10th Article of Faith) and reported God as saying "it is not right that any man should be in bondage one to another. And for this purpose have I established the Constitution of this land, by the hands of wise men whom I raised up unto this very purpose, and redeemed the land by the shedding of blood" (D&C 101:79–80).[28]
Although officially shunned by the LDS Church, fundamentalist Mormons believe in the White Horse Prophecy, which argues that Mormons will be the ones called upon to preserve the Constitution as it hangs "by a thread".[29][30] >

We are turning into North Korea aren't we ? >

If you wanna talk capitalism, then the neatherlands and Switzerland are the best. 
Hell, the Dutch have private Healthcare AND report high satisfaction of it. >

Meanwhile Switzerland has equivalent levels of gun ownership, but with 1/4 of the number of gun deaths (adjusted for population). >

Fascism isn't coming, it's already here... >

Anything coming out of Utah or Florida doesn't even surprise me anymore. Oh and Texas. >

US capitalism is like a snake eating its own tail, any value will be stripped out of companies and society for the few.  
So many great companies have been asset stripped in the name of shareholder value.  
On a societal level it's destructive, infinite growth  and a rewarding environment for the ruthless. >

Guarantee you they can't even accurately describe "free market".
A free market means everybody has all the same information. 
Never happens. >

Which means manor corporations rapidly take influence through brand recognition and economics of scale.
The free market just lets the most abusive cost cutters to rule the roost. >

The Party decides what reality is! >

TRUMP IS THE CURRENT PRESIDENT!!!
/S >

2+2=5