• mitram@sopuli.xyz
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    5 hours ago

    That seems like a misrepresentation of the “left” (pretty much a useless term, but oh well).

    Most of the “right” indeed believes “rich people” are essential to the economy and their abandonment of a country leads to economic collapse.

    I’d argue the “left” agrees that the owners of capital play an essential role in most economies nowadays, but also believe that it doesn’t have to be that way. In a capitalist economy (like most in the world), the need to appease capital owners, constantly growing, desire to accumulate capital leads to unwanted outcomes like democratic backsliding and without resistance economic power subverts democratic institutions.

    I’ll admit I don’t know the work you mention in your comment, so I might have missed some context.