Sunday, April 19, 2009
A Comment on Capitalism
The capitalist system in America today amounts to little more than a concerted effort by all the institutions of Man to convince and eventually coerce us to waste as much of our money and time as they can in as lavish a manner possible. This is most prominently seen in the amount of time that we spend every day being advertised to. In a capitalist system like ours, the world not only doesn't care about you, it also repeatedly dupes and swindles you.
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"The capitalist system in America today amounts to little more than a concerted effort by all the institutions of Man to convince and eventually coerce us to waste as much of our money and time as they can in as lavish a manner possible."
I would be careful about using the word, "coerce", in this context because there really wasn't any coersion.
There is, indeed coersion; at least so long as the naturally occurring battle between the government and the corporate sector falls in the favor of the capitalists. This is what has happened in America today.
Strictly speaking, if there could be a fully functional capitalist society, then no, government-independent institutions would not coerce us to do anything at all. Nevertheless, this fantasy does not obtain.
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