Jah, geronomeerd...

Overigens wordt het amerikaanse kapitalisme gewoon gedomineerd door een paar families, net als het onze...

"A friend who came to the US from the Soviet Union in the 1970s told me the following 25 years ago, not long after I got out of college, which I will never forget: "America has accomplished what the Soviet system promised us but failed to deliver. Here you can start a business, compete, fail, try again, maybe eventually succeed and get rich, if you stick with it. Or you can live out your days working for some big company. If you start off stuck in a low paying job you can still save up money to go to college, or go at night and pay as you go with the money from your day job, or if you are married one of you can work while the other goes to college to develop skills needed for a higher paying job. So many ways to get ahead and make money, and if you fail there’s a government safety net so you don't starve."

He was impressed with the US system then, but he recently he told me he does not believe what he told me more than two decades ago is true anymore. Since then the purchasing power of income has so far eroded relative to the cost of the basic necessities of housing and food that a person starting at the bottom cannot save enough to go to college, both spouses in a marriage have to work to pay the bills to live in a safe neighborhood and to maintain a decent standard of living, and have to make very good incomes to afford to live in a town with good schools. If you are working a low paying field you have to work two or more jobs just to earn enough to have a place to live and food to eat, leaving no spare time for night school. This phenomenon was documented in nickledandimed. College is so expensive that you can no longer pay as you go; you have to take out student loans. If your credit isn't good then you cannot get a loan to pay for college. Even if you get in you graduate with so much debt that it's not economical unless you are training for a profession that earns you enough money to pay off student debt in perhaps10 years."

In Nederland wordt het kapitalisme gedomineerd door de overheid, net als in Amerika.

Een 'simulatie' van een 'free-market' dus. Net zoals je in 'The Matrix' een 'simulatie' had van het 'leven'. :)