Maybe the system doesn't work well but it works better than the liberal one we had during the industrial revolution. "Small" people needs to hoard power in order not to be completely raped by big corporation. The best current way to do it is to have a government elected by everyone and have it regulate the economy a little bit in order to avoid having half of the country becoming slaves.
...but society is fucking EVERYONE in the ass! The rich are getting fucked by the government, while you're getting fucked by the rich, who keep wages down because they're getting fucked in the ass, and because they're bastards. Meanwhile, the government is further deducting wages to send people poorer then yourself to school, as well as provide them with free money, as they proceed to NOT pay taxes and...oh my, what happened to that equality you were providing again?
The rich are hardly fucked by the government.
The government allows them to have access to a stable country with plenty of workforce they can hire and then milk as consumers. It's only normal they have to pay for it.
Also people with "free money" aren't living the dream. It's barely enough to live and you have to count every penny. As a middle class member, I feel like I'm in a pretty comfortable situation. Of course you always wish to have less taxes and more free things but I feel like my taxes are worth my medical coverage, my education (who'll allow me to make a good amount of money) and the assurance that, if bad things would happen to me, it wouldn't mean that I'll end up on the road.
Also having government-subsided education and other basic facilities (medicare, etc.), if you can't afford them, is indeed helping equality. If you free lower classes of some of their financial burden, then can shoot for higher education level, which allows them to "level up" in the social ladder. Whereas it would be impossible if one semester in your uni was worth 1 year of salary of your father.
This also assure you that people will have a good level of education, including in technical domain. This way you can sustain an industry relying on high quality product and high quality trained worker, which allows you not to totally lose against China.
This isn't even into the government deciding precisely how much of your wealth is in need of a thorough redistribution, who are a collective of incompetent beurocrats who are a slave to self interest groups and the banks.
Bureaucrats are not incompetent. Western government aren't all corrupt. If you really think your government is nothing but corrupt people trying to steal most of your money you should either move out or start a revolution.
Never mind that people are still starving and homeless in...Switzerland, right?
Yes but the government provides shelter so they don't die during winter. There are also social reinsertion program.
And no, Kami. Our rich pay almost nothing because they control the government.
Maybe if people tried to change it instead of saying it's all corrupt it would be better ? Maybe also if you'd join forces against richer people instead of hitting poorer people with sticks the people fucking you in the ass would have an harder time doing so ?
