The American Scream

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In the essay, “Is Capitalism in Trouble?” the author Chrystia Freeland makes it clear that people are realizing that capitalism is, “quite dysfunctional” in contemporary American society. Capitalism is not adequately serving the American people and some cooperate leaders are opening their eyes to the situation at hand. B Corps is a, “global organization of for-profit businesses that chose to legally bind themselves to meeting social and environmental objectives.” You see, more and more of these leaders are trying to give capitalism a better name and give back to the community. But is it too late? Freeland states, “we have created an economy and corporations that in many ways have become unethical.” The evils and greed of capitalism is far too powerful to under weigh the values of B Corps. Although B Corps is trying to “save capitalism,” many argue that capitalism thrived in its’ beginning stages, both socially and with workers’ revenues. For instance, “capitalism, even 150 years ago, was more inclusive; there was more responsibility.” More people could trust the genuine continuity of American business. Relationships between businesses and society in the 1950’s and 1960’s were unparalleled to the extortion of today’s workers. Business owners had more social responsibilities to abide by. It wasn’t until 1970 when, “capitalism started to go off the rails.” Milton Freeman advocated maximizing shareholder value as the number concern of a business. Above all else, health insurance, worker’s benefits and wages, the number one concern of a business was to maximize shareholders. This, “trickle-down theory” is a narrow minded way of thinking, and has adversely affected the broader American society.

If something does not get done fast, the villainy of capitalism will forever echo the absences of unitedness; Rather we will become aggressively allocated in our nations sorrows. Divided into groups and communes. The working man at the turn of the century faced many of the same daunting challenges we face. These men nearly accepted communism because of the evils of extortion. Murders, strikes, and revolts all at the turn of the century. We have to come together collectively and not turn are heads to the conniving capitalistic bastards. We have to start asking the right questions because, “if we don’t do something to change the trajectory of the economy, we will experience significant social upheaval.” Some like to say, “Let’s make America great again.” But how do we do so when the system itself has robbed the American people? You cannot see the world with blind eyes, so only the real eyes of America, will realize capitalism’s real lies.