Small mom and pop businesses have been dwindling in the US for decades. What we're seeing is massive billion dollar corporations that straddle the market place and have considerable economic monopolies (such as cable companies, or massive food market chains, or meat producers.) These same massive billion dollar corporations, who never stop pursuing less regulations in the market place, also spend massive amounts of money in Washington DC to deregulate the market even further - with constant huge billion dollar mergers approved by lawmakers - such as the recent Krogers/Albertson merge.
I think many people would like to live in a more equitable society, that some forms of socialism appear to be able to achieve - if we look at other more socialist countries in the world - some of which adapt a hybrid of socialism/capitalism. But it is difficult to move toward change when so much power concentrated in a relatively few - and they are doing all they can to hold on to power, at the expense of the welfare of everyone else in a society.
Small mom and pop businesses have been dwindling in the US for decades. What we're seeing is massive billion dollar corporations that straddle the market place and have considerable economic monopolies (such as cable companies, or massive food market chains, or meat producers.) These same massive billion dollar corporations, who never stop pursuing less regulations in the market place, also spend massive amounts of money in Washington DC to deregulate the market even further - with constant huge billion dollar mergers approved by lawmakers - such as the recent Krogers/Albertson merge.
I think many people would like to live in a more equitable society, that some forms of socialism appear to be able to achieve - if we look at other more socialist countries in the world - some of which adapt a hybrid of socialism/capitalism. But it is difficult to move toward change when so much power concentrated in a relatively few - and they are doing all they can to hold on to power, at the expense of the welfare of everyone else in a society.
If we all (or mostly) _wanted_ to have socialism as I defined it above, we could have it tomorrow.