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Originally posted by RebelWithanAK@09-22-2003 12:35 AM
The means of production is dreary, monotonous and backbreaking, not to mention that its inception is merely a new form of wage slavery; housing is expensive, in poor supply and poorly maintained. The physical character of our civilization has been torn up by the way we've been doing things for the last century and a half, as shown by our almost abject lack of cultural institutions in most of the country, and capitalism itself is most certainly not anywhere near a real meritocracy. The extravagant wealth of the extremely rich is frightening in its power; in its ability to shape the character for most of society and its complete lack of accountability in doing so. Robert Moses, for example, just about single-handedly evicted a quarter of a million people from their homes, and all but destroyed the character of an entire city borough. Walmart employs .3% of the country and can effectively dictate the power of labor unions nationwide.
Greed is a powerful tool, and incredibly destructive. |
The means of production are deary and monotonous, but hardly backbreaking, I think you are thinking of pre-industrail times when a man would die young plowing a field full of rocks.
Housing is expensive because we have to pay a panel of 'experts' to decide if it is safe enough to live in, and other stupid items forced on us by government to keep lawyers employied, not industrialists.
That power you speak of is because it has become a habit to pay state officials to get relief, so why do you blame the bribe givers but not the takers? The takers are the ones that build that part of the system.
Please define greed and what it has to do with your statement rather than your opinion...