wealthiest 1% enhanced their wealth by around 30% in the last year. Poverty has increased dramatically in the same time. Millions have lost their houses, and if they were lucky enough to liquidise that asset, they'll probably lose a lot of it eventually. But there's far worse happening, with even worse still to come, not just in America. Thanks to capitalism. Things will recover in a few years? How? The system depends on profit. The provision of which led to the deprivation of the masses, causing a reduction in spending, causing further unemployment, causing further reduction in spending and so on. Eventually, tax revenue is not enough to pay for welfare for the unemployed, as is happening now in several capitalist countries. What to do? Hand everybody money to re-start the deprivation process? The end result would be the same. Capitalism will always self-destruct. No alternative? What was wrong with Qantas and many other once state-owned industries before they were privatised? We got good service and decently paid workers. Nobody was raking off money to become even wealthier shareholders. The population at large weren't being deprived as they are under capitalism. So, why don't we get all the profit-making (extracting) industries that were once public owned, like utilities, transport, and roads etc back into public ownership for the benefit of all? Plenty of agreement there, I'd bet. The capitalists, understandably very displeased with that idea, would probably deride it as backward thinking, or, the worst demonising of all, as socialism.