Capitalism...

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1. The only part that hinted this was satire, to me, was when

it said that "Admirable Capitalists in Fiction" were Mr. Burns & Scrooge.

Otherwise, there are people out there (I know one) who would take everything else in this video as serious. They worship the capitalist system unquestioningly.

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3. Capitalism is a much outdated concept

True capitalism needs to go the way of feudalism. The repugs love to claim that "liberals" like to advocate class warfare. What do they think causes friction between various classes? Capitalism has done a perfect job of separating the "haves" from the "have-nots". It's pretty damned hard to "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" when those at the top are determined to keep you in your place. Repugs love to think that all you need is hard work and you'll be rich. Bullshit, if that were true, most of us would be rich. I know many poor people who do more hard work in one week than some of these rich-cats will do their entire lives.

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4. Exactly - the lovers of capitalism never talk about the fact that

one of the rules of capitalism is that in order for others to get ahead, others must be exploited.

They think that's okay as along as you are the one doing the exploiting. Capitalism is a mental illness.

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5. so what is After Capitalism?

http://www.aftercapitalism.com/summary.html

...the disalienation process gives rise to solidarity and to mutual trust among workers instead of predatory competition; to democratic decision-making in place of managerial hierarchy; to judgments based on equality and fairness in place of arbitrary prejudice. Above all, the disalienated quality of worker decisions about production demands that the people who formulate decisions (or proposals for action) are the same people who implement them. Thereby, the crucial occupational pattern of managerialism - the separation of decision-makers from implementors - is transformed.

How about that? I would love to see Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Bremer, Hastert, All of the suck-bags lumped together and air lifted into Iraq to do the work. That'll be the day!