If you can take too much vitamins. Can you take too much capitalism and get sick?

[HowardCohodas]

My heroes. Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw

 

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Quote from CaptainObvious:

No, capitalism in and of itself is not the problem. However, when it is "cornered" as suggested by the OP, capitalism then becomes a Plutocracy, perhaps even a plutarchy. Under such a system a wealthy minority have disproportionate influence over the political process. In essence they are able to buy favorable conditions for the continued bleeding of the economic system. The system is not as much cornered as it is held hostage while the wealthy few extort the workforce. Give us your money, or we upend the system, eliminate all jobs, and basically bankrupt the country. The worker is faced with the decision to work for slave wages, or have no work at all. Hence, all the money flows upwards.
Not a soul with even a microscopic level of intellectual honesty can argue that what we are experiencing is not a Plutocracy. To argue otherwise, one must be so completely bias in their political views, practice such an astounding degree of willful ignorance, that they are fully incapable of having a rational discussion on the subject.

Well what the fuck would a reasoning person expect with Karl Marx in the background threatening to take all the wealth, all the means of production, to mortgage the wealthy's grandchildren, to turn the healthcare system into a prison nightmare that could be used against dissenters... of course people are circling the wagons, battening the hatches.. choose the metaphor you like.. if a large number of people are using government to extort money out of wealthy people do you expect them to sit by wringing their hands or would you expect them to buy some politicians and loot the shit out of the situation? And yeah, there are a lot of people that are not wealthy that don't succumb to the tender mercies of Marxism because it makes their stomachs churn...

Hee hee.. last year I had a chance to go after some bullying twat from the far, far left activist sector of the racism/welfare industry.. I used the legal system to extort some money out of her and IT FELT BITCHIN'. Her bullshit lawyer insulted me on the way out of the last meeting and I'm biding my time to go after that piece of shit as well... Her neighbors tell me that she can't believe somebody did such a dirty thing to her, LOL, it's a mirror image of what she's doing to me via the political system, Karma is a real bitch sometimes...