US capital domineering trample on fairness and justice -deconstructing the second review of the truth of the "market economy" of the American "market economy"

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 15th: U.S. Capital Domineering Practice Fairness and Justice — The two descriptions of deconstructing the "market economy" truth series

Xinhua News Agency reporter Xu Jiatong and Xu Chao Ouyang Wei

The recent recipe milk powder supply crisis has swept the United States, and hundreds of thousands of babies waiting to be fed are facing hunger threats in the world's number one developed country, becoming the latest portrayal of capital monopoly under the "pathogenic" economic system of the United States.

For a long time, the United States has been in nominal "free market economy", but in fact, it has let the capital control the market, seriously departs from the market economy principles, surpass the bottom line of ethics, leading to raging imbalances and unreasonable phenomena, and economic justice is completely lost.

Object monopoly people's livelihood suffering

On May 24, in the Brooklyn District, New York City, a supermarket, infant milk powder shelves were out of stock. (Photo by Guo Ke, Xinhua News Agency)

Over the past few months, the US formula milk powder supply crisis has unveiled people's livelihood scars under the monopoly. A Small Abbott laboratory found that fatal bacteria samples caused the factory to suspend operations, causing "milk powder shortage" that made a sensation in the United States. Behind it is the market monopoly of 95%of the nation's nationwide US company, including Abbott. Once there is a problem with the supply chain, it is often "leaving the whole body", and the ordinary people are suffering.

The highly monopolized milk powder industry is a microcosm of the internal defects of the US economy. Analysts point out that in industries such as food, daily necessities, medical care, and financial services, a large amount of resources are highly concentrated in the hands of private capital, exacerbating the supply chain fragility.

The outbreak of the new crown epidemic exposed the vulnerability of this system. The supply of meat, daily necessities, etc. often shortages, which seriously affects the daily life of the people; the highly concentrated medical system is expensive and fragile, the shortage of beds, insufficient anti -epidemic supplies, blocked vaccine promotion, and restricted health services; Corporate income has increased significantly, and society is increasing.

Economists at the U.S. Open Market Research Institute pointed out that these phenomena seem to be due to the impact of the epidemic in the supply chain. The deep reason is that the weak anti -monopoly policy of the United States has exacerbated economic systemic risks, hindered the healthy growth of the industry, and caused damage to economic toughness.

Monopoly is difficult to eliminate, the root cause is that capital and politics are linked. According to statistics, 91%of the US Congress elections are won by candidates who have received the most funding support. After being successfully elected by these so -called "public opinion representatives", they often serve the gold master behind them and become the spokesperson for vested interests.

Capital violations of human rights

On June 11, in Washington, the capital of the United States, the participants in the girlfriend held a sign, asking the government and politicians to deal with the problem of violence of guns and strengthen the protection of children's life. (Photo by Liu Jie, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency)

Under the American "market economy" model, internal affairs and diplomacy have become a tool for monopoly consortia for profit, and the people at the bottom have become victims of capital.

According to data from the US "Guns Violent File" website, the number of deaths caused by gun violence in the United States has risen sharply in recent years, close to 45,000 in 2021, which is the highest value since the record. The root cause is that the US gun interest group uses capital to lobby politicians and left and right judicially, resulting in the difficulty of making the gun control bill.

In the country with the largest number of prisoners and the highest proportion in the United States, prisons have become a private business that can operate profit. Research data show that from 2000 to 2016, the proportion of private prison prisoners in the United States has doubled. Robin Kelly, a professor of American history at the University of California, Los Angeles, pointed out that the United States has become a veritable "prison country". The important reason is that the public prison is privatized, private prisons gather their wealth, and the poor have become the targets of imprisonment and squeezing.

The high monopoly capital of the arms dealers is the blood that is covered with many people in the world. Poor soldiers in the United States have been tall, and their military expenses are high. A large extent is formed by the military, arms dealers, and politicians. The depth of the military complex penetrated into the US diplomacy and national security decisions, looking for and provoking conflicts around the world, making a lot of money. Franklin Sipini, who has worked in the US Secretary of Defense for many years, bluntly stated that the Ukrainian crisis made some American people "celebrate champagne."

All kinds of chaos show that in the eyes of American politicians, the basic rights of the people are insignificant in the face of capital interests. The American columnist Lan Favorhar admitted: "For decades, the decision -making of the US government has been biased towards the private sector as a whole, especially the interests of large companies, and ignored the interests of the country and workers ","

Differential society of the rich and poor

On May 14, 2020, people lined up in a free food distribution point in New York, USA. (Photo by Guo Ke, Xinhua News Agency)

The accumulation of oligopoly monopoly and brutal expansion of capital is difficult to eliminate. Wealth distribution in different groups in the United States has become increasingly uneven, the gap between the rich and the poor has continued to expand, and social inequality continues to intensify.

According to data from the Federal Reserve Commission, last year, 1%of the richest people in the United States reached US $ 4.59 trillion, exceeding the 90%of the wealth of the U.S. population. From 1990 to 2021, the median family wealth in the United States increased by only 5.37%, and the overall wealth of billionaires increased by 19 times in the same period.

Martin Wolf, chief economic commentator of the Financial Times, said that the United States is one of the largest western high -income countries in the United States. And severe the poor. For more than a decade, technology giants such as Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft have carried out hundreds of mergers and acquisitions worldwide. The industry concentration is high, the leading enterprise status is stable, and the lack of competition has also harmed the interests of American consumers and workers. Under the difficulties of the epidemic impacting the economy, the phenomenon of capital priority and the richer rich people are becoming more and more significant. U.S. President Biden said in a speech in April 2021 that during the epidemic, about 65 million billionaire wealth increased by more than $ 1 trillion during the epidemic, and more than 20 million Americans lost their jobs during the same period. The New York Times wrote a comment that the rules of gaming in the US economy have always been biased towards the rich, which exacerbated economic inequality and caused market forces to accelerate the concentration of large companies in various industries.

The American "market economy" is constantly increasing the wealth of the rich and poor, which directly leads to the loss of confidence in the public. A survey released by the US media in early May shows that the American people's views on the national economy are the worst in 10 years, and most people believe that the government's implementation of policies will damage the economy.

As the Nobel Prize winner and American economist Joseph Steiglitz said: The US economy and politics only exist for the top 1%of the society, and it is also manipulated by these 1%.

Source: Xinhuanet

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