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No, because the majority of people do not live in the US.
So the amount of influence is the same from the US and Russia and China.
We aren't as uninformed as this meme suggests about the concept. We know it has positives, but we also know the negatives, of which there are many.
...i am confident you don't know shit. I say this with respect, tho it doesn't sound respectful.
Because the way you replied to the barest possibility that you are ignorant or misled is to post "no i'm not" instead of being curious and searching for what you might have missed. If you're not curious, and you don't consider yourself propagandized you are exactly this meme, whererever you may be from.
What negatives? Do people turn evil, or do tools stop working, if tools are owned by a collective?
Yes. You see, if most of the profits aren't taken from all the people making them and given to like, just a few people to keep for themselves, we'd have mass hysteria!
I shudder to think of what the workers might get up to if they had more of the money they created, or more of a voice in their workplace. They might start doing dangerous things that benefitted themselves instead of the stonks, and that idea is just disgusting to me