It is hard to argue against the notion that the root of the problem is unregulated global capitalism; without limits. Now a single person can be worth tens or hundreds of billions of dollars. What if those people are mentally unstable, or sociopathic, and have all those resources to facilitate their "agenda"? It is not capitalism per se, it is the fact that modern capitalism has metastasized into The Blob, which kills or assimilates all in its path. It is the fact that sociopaths with billions of dollars can wreak havoc on the world and its people. Normal people don't start wars to enhance their revenue streams, but all of the donor-class would gladly do so.
> It is not capitalism per se, it is the fact that modern capitalism has metastasized into The Blob, which kills or assimilates all in its path.
Not sure I agree. I've thought almost forever that the endpoint of capitalism, when it comes to large corporations and their monomaniacal amoral greed, was always monopoly and government capture. Mileages vary, however.
It is hard to argue against the notion that the root of the problem is unregulated global capitalism; without limits. Now a single person can be worth tens or hundreds of billions of dollars. What if those people are mentally unstable, or sociopathic, and have all those resources to facilitate their "agenda"? It is not capitalism per se, it is the fact that modern capitalism has metastasized into The Blob, which kills or assimilates all in its path. It is the fact that sociopaths with billions of dollars can wreak havoc on the world and its people. Normal people don't start wars to enhance their revenue streams, but all of the donor-class would gladly do so.
Thanks for the comment, John. As to this:
> It is not capitalism per se, it is the fact that modern capitalism has metastasized into The Blob, which kills or assimilates all in its path.
Not sure I agree. I've thought almost forever that the endpoint of capitalism, when it comes to large corporations and their monomaniacal amoral greed, was always monopoly and government capture. Mileages vary, however.
Thomas