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The system that they've created cannot survive this. It is antithetical towards it. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the modern financial world's complete and total dependency on consumerism, and the utter hypocrisy entailed in big businesses championing environmentalism while also...

I do see your point, but there was no conflation. An economy is a culture and vice versa, and unrestrained capitalism will always inevitably become godless and materialist over a sufficient stretch of time, doomed by its own success. You start off with a free market and a Protestant work ethic...

A producer-centric economy is intrinsically better than one based around high finance, because it results in products that people can actually use, instead of just shuffling paper. The idea that people can be rewarded a pittance in wages for producing all the goods and services needed by...

As they very well should. Billionaire CEOs are highly dependent on the managerial class to manage their assets, simply because the complexity of asset management has grown beyond what any one person can handle, but this has led to the entrenchment of the managers as a pseudo-class. The...

Managerialism is wearing capitalism like a skin suit. The point I'm trying to make is that people are showing blind loyalty to something that presents itself as capitalism, and which they think is capitalism, but it's actually managerialism wearing capitalism's skin like the bug wearing Edgar's...

The brief period of entrepreneurial capitalism after the industrial revolution and up into the late 20th century that created huge prosperity for ordinary people was a glitch. In the end, the most successful accumulators of capital will always seek to form massive trusts and assign vast armies...

A leaked memo has shown that Bank of America hope that conditions for American workers get even worse: https://theintercept.com/2022/07/29/bank-of-america-worker-conditions-worse/ The problem with capitalism is that profit maximization has nothing to do with assuring people a high quality of...