Nice. Capitalism vs Socialism: not a fight to the death but yet another system of checks and balances.

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I have said something similar for years, stated differently.

Powerful interests like uber wealthy individuals and corporations will almost always choose to protect and expand their own interests.

The only way that the everyday person has a voice against such juggernauts is by banding together as "government" to get enough power to stop them. Think anti-Trust legislation.

Not as "sound-bitey" as this, however I think it is more accurate.

Capitalism vs Government. In the true sense of the word "to govern."

I thought he missed the point that it's in the best interests of those at the top for the bottom to be higher. They don't want to be carjacked, robbed, kidnapped, etc by people who have no other option to survive, so it behooves them to pay workers enough that that is not the foreseeable outcome.

Also, he forgot to mention the late 1700's uprising/revolution in France where the working class DID rise up and attack the upper class violently, killing many. THAT is some history that needs to be mentioned time and time again, both as a warning if "fairness" isn't returned to the system at least enough to allow full time workers to survive without resorting to crime or working tirelessly over 100 hours per week, and as a reminder of what has worked to solve that inequality problem in the past.
It wouldn't take too many 1%ers being murdered in front of their families and force fed to them before things changed....hopefully for the better, but certainly change of some kind would happen. I hope it doesn't come to that....unless there's no other option, then a few 1%ers murdered is much better than thousands of poor starving or otherwise being indigent to death.

...or unions.