Is corporate money in politics the reason for our lowered standard of living?

[George S]

Your first statement is a lie. Europe is in the same turmoil we are. The Euro-cultures, including us, became so spoiled by the prosperity brought with reduction in birth rates at the same time great advances in technology created large new industries soaking up the prior excess labor. That raised wages for everyone and brought an unprecedented prosperity for working classes.

That inspired the new delusional squandering under the assumption full employment was permanent. Most of the rest of the world did not end its gross overpopulating and remained in miserable poverty until cheap, fast container shipping carried many of our industries to the tiny wages their desperate burgeoning hordes accepted.

Now particularly the huge hordes of excess labor in China are literally swallowing the world's economies. Neo-Marxist bigots, like their classic Marxist mentors did in the last economic depression, are distracting everyone from the real cause of most human disasters in this world: gross overpopulating. It devastates economies by flooding the labor market, ruins the environment by taking ever more habitat from other species, and forces wars of conquest to satisfy the need of expanding populations.

"Greedy capitalists" do suck workers blood, but they suck it from the floor. Overpopulating excess labor cuts each others' throats by undercutting each others' wages.