You peeked my interest and I did a little research. Needless to say your take is garbage apologist nonsense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Tibet_by_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/march-10/rebellion-in-tibet
https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep06540?seq=12
China is on record in the 50's stating that Tibet was a vassal state. Your denial of imperialism is outright pathetic.
Ah yes, the mythical small business capitalism we all hear about. I will agree it sounds good on paper and also seems to distribute money in a somewhat efficient manner.
Unfortunately there has never been a government able to regulate and keep capitalism this way. Other people have said it is simply not possible due to the nature of capitalism.
I think there is a worthwhile debate here around systems and culture. Perhaps capitalism could work if people were not inherently so greedy. I tend to believe that culture is the deciding factor which is a little disheartening honestly.
Yeah that is why the worst fascists and oligarchs block access to the Internet. I think you are being pretty disingenuous here whether you realize it or not. The Internet is like a utility at this point and that is not even remotely comparable with how AI is currently being deployed and used by major corporations.
I am glad to hear you accept bad actors will misuse it. I don't think anyone is actually ready for the level of deception that AI will be able to accomplish once it has access to you and your family/friends information while being used by a nefarious party. For example impersonating loved ones to trick you, epic cat fishing with a persona that has been custom tailored to you, complex financial schemes involving fraud, etc.
I totally get you are in denial about fascism around the world. Imperalism is not unique to the US nor is supporting genocide. We can see Germany and the UK both supporting Israel full heartedly. Many European countries are extremely corrupt as well, like France that supplies weapons to kill civilians all over the world. Furthermore, issues like anti-muslim sentiment abounds.
The US is horrible for sure, but Europe does everything the US does. Just like your belief that inequality predates modern markets so does European imperialism predate the US.
You are also horribly in denial of the reality of capitalism. It is out of control in Europe. While it may be slightly better at initially spreading the wealth around once corporations take over exploitation and wealth concentration abound.
Yes, there are countless way to measure these metrics, thank you for taking the time to explain this. Also, in this particular area of Europe are some of the best wealth distributed areas on Earth.
This does not make it okay though, as you point out yourself. As fascism grows in power this wealth gap will continue to grow as it has in all but one place in Europe for a little amount of time. I believe it was Slovakia, but it had been awhile since I read about it.
Currently this wealth gap is increasing in the entire world which has lead me to the conclusion along with other research that fascism has captured the world's economy and has for some time.
Fascism doesn't have a real left/right ideology either, but it will happily stroke the far right since their message is so effective due to propaganda. Fascism represents the monied interests and in theory if these entities were altruistic we would be living in a different world. So ultimately it is a cultural problem rather than a system issue which in a lot of ways is a bitter pill to swallow.
This does raise the question of inevitability. Will capitalism and fascism inherently lead to these wealth gaps that allow monied interests almost complete control of government policy. So far it appears so.
Is this a bad thing? I tend to believe yes due to several major issues with the top being environmental degredation and the next being arms proliferation. Human suffering due to these two issues is enormous and there doesn't appear to be a way to counterbalance this.
https://nltimes.nl/2026/05/06/rich-get-richer-dutch-tax-system-widens-income-disparities
"Between 2011 and 2019, the wealthiest 0.01 percent of households’ income increased by over 70 percent, "
You got me excited for a second, but I have already done this
"wealth inequality is high, where the richest 10% hold 56% of the total wealth (as of early 2025 data), compared to the bottom 90% sharing the rest."
Also, the Dutch are fascist as fuck. Not as in fascism = bad but as in fadcism = corporatism.
https://newint.org/migration/2025/can-dutch-fight-fascism-head
As far as explaining what the dominant form of culture means here is an article based off the movie corporation. Obviously this is a US perspective, but all my research indicates that corporations are dominating all of Europe as well.
I never said fascism is the only cause of inequality. It is the evolution of corporatism which I believe has evolved into a corportocracy. The revolving door between private and public and regulatory capture have created the reality that corporations are the ones crafting and getting the majority of all policy passed around the world. While in the US is extreme at almost 90% of all policy, in Europe it is slightly better with 70-80% of all policy.
This is what dominant means.
Lol that is hilarious 😂
So then you can provide no example. As I have researched, there is no nation currently that has the trend of reducing the wealth gap. I understand you do not view this as proof and that is okay.
I brought up the fact that corporations are currently the dominant social construct in our society regardless of country. You can agree or disagree.
But the black box told us to do it, it is not our fault. This has got to be the dumbest timeline ever, but wait.
I know. Let's build a white supremacist black box and then let it give us orders that way we aren't racist. Oh darn, Muskrat was a step ahead and did that already.
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Did you remember to drive your Cybercuck a couple of miles backwards so the wheels don't fall off? - Superior engineers at the Nazi Car Factory.
In the US we can only regulate who goes to what bathroom, all other regulations just don't work.