The stock chart goes up, but whose life gets better. We open with a blunt question: what is an economy for if not to help people build stable lives. From shuttered factories to soaring rents, we trace how a market unmoored from national obligations turns efficiency into fragility, rewarding cost arbitrage while eroding the foundations families depend on. Instead of reheated talking points about capitalism and socialism, we offer a practical lens: judge every policy by whether it strengthens workers’ skills, expands productive capacity at home, and makes it easier to form a family.

We walk through the mechanisms that hollowed out local prosperity—offshoring core industries, financial incentives that favor extraction over building, and decades of underbuilding homes near jobs. You’ll hear a grounded plan for renewal: trade and tax rules that reward domestic investment, an industrial strategy for semiconductors, medicines, and clean energy equipment, and a workforce system centered on apprenticeships and rapid, employer-linked training. We also tackle the human side of the ledger: the loss of purpose that comes with unstable work, the way rent and healthcare swallow wage gains, and why resilient communities require both strong paychecks and abundant housing.

This conversation resets the scoreboard. We propose new metrics—median family income after housing and healthcare, domestic investment per worker, tradable-sector job growth, and time to household formation—so progress shows up in daily life, not just in indexes. If you’re ready for an economy that measures success by thriving main streets rather than a single line on a screen, press play and join the conversation. Subscribe, share with a friend who cares about rebuilding productive America, and leave a review with the one policy you’d pass first.

Full blog post: https://news.gab.com/2025/11/why-capitalism-isnt-working/

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