OUT OF THEIR PROFITS!!! Isn't that clear?
McDonald's STILL makes profit in my country, and not a little bit either.
So do hair salons, food delivery services, supermarkets, drugstores, internet providers, insurance companies, movie theaters, gym chains, the train, airlines, private educational courses, etc. They all exist in my country, pay better wages, offer better services, and are either more affordable or have similar prices.

We just don't transfer as much money from the average citizen to the wealthy
like you do in the US.

You are assuming corporations use "cost-plus" pricing (blindly adding a fixed profit markup on top of their expenses). They don't. They use value-based pricing, centered entirely on finding the price optimum.

• The Price Optimum Formula: A corporation continuously tests the market to find the exact intersection where Price × Sales Volume yields the absolute maximum total profit. They always charge the maximum price the local market can tolerate before demand collapses.

• The Demand Ceiling Capping Prices: If a company raises prices beyond this optimum just because their internal costs (like wages or rent) went up, they ruin their own demand. A higher price that causes a massive drop in customers results in lower total revenue. Therefore, prices are structurally capped by consumer purchasing power and local competition, not driven upward by a company's internal bills.

• Costs Impact Profit, Not Price: Internal expenses, whether they are wages, taxes, or real estate, dictate the profit margin, not the price tag. When operational costs rise, a company has a choice: accept a slightly lower profit margin to maintain their sales volume, or raise prices and risk destroying demand.

I would not call this 'basic economics', but it all aligns perfectly with standard neoclassical microeconomic theory. It is fully backed by academic economics because it directly operationalizes the foundational principle that firms are profit maximizers operating under demand constraints.

The Ultimate Proof (Recent US Price Cuts): Look at McDonald's recent behavior in the US. After aggressively raising prices for years, they were forced to introduce value menus and slash prices. They didn't do this out of goodwill, and they certainly didn't do it because their labor or supply costs suddenly dropped. They did it because consumers, strained by economic uncertainty, stopped buying. Demand collapsed, forcing McDonald's to lower their prices back down to find the new market optimum.

Public narrative heavily distorts economics into a moral tale of companies just covering their bills. In reality, economic theory demonstrates that corporations are just cold, optimization algorithms. They charge the absolute maximum the market will bear. They will ONLY lower prices if they can make more profit from it, by increasing demand.

Yes, corporate media! Which party destroyed all public and independent media, and gave all media a profit incentive? Which party did it's best to provide objective media, without a profit incentive, but with a system that supports journalistic integrity as much as possible?

AOC is NOT a millionaire and Nancy Pelosi is FAR from being a socialist. Pelosi is a corporate centrist Democrat, who takes lost of campaign donations from the wealthy. She hates progressives, leftists and socialists just as much as any Republican, because they are a threat to her wealth, that is based on corruption.
Just don't think that Pelosi's corruption is worse than any Republican's.

"Change is supposed to come from the top"? Who told you that? In history, change has almost always been fought, bled and died over. The only time you could say something like that was when your founding fathers wrote The Constitution, but don't think that the working class had nothing to do with that. People were fed-up with a ruling class sending them off to die in wars, and the elites were afraid to end up at the end of a pitchfork.

I am not against the EU in principle, but I am very much against how it is organized to favor the wealthy and corporations. The Socialist Party is also
not against European cooperation, but we fight against the EU power grab constantly, and fight for countries to retain their sovereignty and self-determination.

You are right about people's selfish nature. So, what makes people give up
their "what's in it for me?" reasoning, when they want to give up all their rights
as workers, their pension, their social safety net, to further enrich some wealthy assholes who think that they deserve everything they take, and YOU deserve nothing?

You might be smarter than you think, because you ask better questions than most. Your thoughts are very anti-establishment. I can relate to that, but why do you think that AOC is the establishment? She was despised by both parties, when voters made her a representative. Remember how she was dismissed as a stupid waitress? They spat on her as a peasant. And now she has some money, she is the establishment? Who told you this nonsense?

Let's say AOC will keep her current function for the next 40 years. Elon Musk makes the same money in 7 minutes and 46 seconds. And he went on stage
with a chainsaw joking about cutting government money. Since then, he got
$38 BILLION in total government funding, loans, subsidies, and tax credits.
AOC would need to keep her function for 218,391 years to earn that.