We are appalled that a quarter of the way into the 21st century:

• 650k homeless in America.
• 31% of the population earns less than $50k yearly.
• 47% of the population earns less than $75k yearly.
• The federal minimum wage hasn't gone up in 17 years.
• Only 34 states have mandated higher minimum wages.

• Medical debt relates to 66.5% of bankruptcies per year.
• Medicare for all would cost less than the current system.

• The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world.
• Every state's incarceration rate is higher than most nations.

• In the last decade, states paid out $3.2 billion for police misconduct.
• Almost 1.9m (1 in 3) bridges in the US need replacement or repair.

• The legal immigration “process” taking 5-10 years is self-defeating.
• In 2023 we paid $660 *billion* in INTEREST on the national debt.
• In geopolitics, land-grabs are (unfortunately) back in style.

• The USA ranks #22 in Quality of Life.
• The USA ranks #20 on the (HDI) Human Development Index.


These things are byproducts of runaway capitalism.



What are the end products of runaway capitalism?

• Nestle (and water rights).
• John Deer (against farmers concerning right-to-repair).
• DoorDash (consistently refuses to refund unfulfilled orders).
• Union Carbide, Norfolk Southern, 3M, Dow have poisoned a towns.
• Purdue Pharma got people addicted to Oxy for profit.
• Blackstone Group owns 16,000 single-family homes ($2.5 billion).
• BMW charged $18/mo for heated car seats.
• We don't own the music/books we buy; we are renting them.
• 1000-word, one-sided "terms and conditions."

 • 10 percent of the richest people in the US own 70% of the total wealth.