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Journal by Gaaark
I have nothing against capitalism: what we seem to have nowadays is Corruptism.
Corruptism is the collecting of wealth no matter who or what.
Need another dollar? Bribe a politician to make the laws favour corporations over people.
Need ANOTHER dollar? Cut wages and hours.
Need ANOTHER dollar? Layoffs.
It use to be that employers made, what, 400X what their employees made? Now an employee has to work 2-3 jobs just to live while the 'boss' feeds the pork to make ONE MORE DOLLAR!
A little more kindness would see us in a better world.
I'd like to see politicians start thinking of the people who voted for them.
Lets get back to basic Capitalism: Corruptism is not working.
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innovate, v.:
To annoy people.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday December 13 2018, @06:16AM
Exactly.
Capitalism means a free market, a level (and not unnecessarily elevated) playing field with no artificial barriers to either entry or exit.
It's the furthest thing from what we have now; a late stage fascist system where the government uses the corporations to enforce rules they could not legally enforce, while the corporations in turn use the government, not just for their very existence, but to give them that critical regulatory advantage when they're in a pinch as well.
Now, having said that, I'm afraid I have to qualify it. Some readers, particularly younger ones, may have absorbed a meaning of 'fascist' as something so abhorrent that once I say 'fascist system' any compromise or accommodation with that system is automatically verboten.
Well first off I've very likely come a lot closer to that ideal of non-accomodation than you have so :P
But second, that is wrong. That's inhuman. Was Schindler a collaborator? Right.
When I say "fascist" I mean something different from, and much more specific really, than just /snarl word/ as some may interpret it. A fascist system is one where big business and an authoritarian state exist in symbiosis. The government can fulfill the letter of the law - if the corporations will do the dirty work. And the government can reward the corporations quite handsomely - with a completely unrelated string of laws that just happen to be to their immediate benefit.
There are other words for this, but I really think 'fascist' is the best, the most apt. This is the system of Roma, of Empire, of making the trains run on time and no one cares what some peasants in a colony suffered to get them there. When you say 'nazi' you get more of a nationalist/jingoist/racist edge implied. And that's not needed or warranted as far as I can see.
At least not yet. No need to make it even worse than it is.
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