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Showing Original Post only (View all)Capitalism is a Sickness [View all]
What do call someone that will destroy their own environment, the very ground they stand on, pollute the water they drink, genetically alter their own food supply with unknown consequences, flood society with deadly weaponry, work to eliminate health care for millions, and then finance a massive campaign to deny any of it is actually happening because admitting so would impact the incomes of the richest 1%? Maybe it should simply be called genocide by social construct? In this country we just call it Capitalism.
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The goal is to use the profits generated by markets to improve the lives of everbody
DemocratSinceBirth
Apr 2015
#22
You are correct - kind of like the mixed economy that FDR favored. Only they made it work for them
jwirr
Apr 2015
#19
Yeah, I sometimes wonder how much of Europe the Europhiles in the US have actually seen
Recursion
Apr 2015
#25
That is true until the trickle down ideas took over. Also I am not so sure you can make that
jwirr
Apr 2015
#29
Greed usually doesn't reeach the point of self-destruction until it is extreme
Joe Nation
Apr 2015
#34