{"id":185727,"date":"2021-05-31T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=203261"},"modified":"2021-05-31T09:00:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T09:00:25","slug":"why-we-need-to-democratize-wealth-the-u-s-capitalist-model-breeds-selfishness-and-resentment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/31\/why-we-need-to-democratize-wealth-the-u-s-capitalist-model-breeds-selfishness-and-resentment\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Need to Democratize Wealth: the U.S. Capitalist Model Breeds Selfishness and Resentment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout its history\u2014wherever it arrived and settled in as the dominant economic system\u2014capitalism provoked struggles over the redistribution of wealth. In other words, this system always distributes wealth in a particular way and likewise produces dissatisfaction with that particular distribution. Those dissatisfied then struggle, more or less, consciously or not, peacefully or violently to redistribute wealth. The struggles are socially divisive and sometimes rise to civil war levels. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/31\/why-we-need-to-democratize-wealth-the-u-s-capitalist-model-breeds-selfishness-and-resentment\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/31\/why-we-need-to-democratize-wealth-the-u-s-capitalist-model-breeds-selfishness-and-resentment\/\">Why We Need to Democratize Wealth: the U.S. Capitalist Model Breeds Selfishness and Resentment<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/31\/why-we-need-to-democratize-wealth-the-u-s-capitalist-model-breeds-selfishness-and-resentment\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout its history\u2014wherever it arrived and settled in as the dominant economic system\u2014capitalism provoked struggles over the redistribution of wealth. In other words, this system always distributes wealth in a particular way and likewise produces d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185780,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185727\/revisions\/185780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}