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Stargazer99

(2,585 posts)
Mon Jan 29, 2018, 02:36 AM Jan 2018

Capitalism kills everything

Some damn mining business wants to mine where salmon in the Pacific Northwest live...the mining feels confident that they will be approved with a program that will save the salmon, what crap!!! Once you idiot capitalist kill off a species we can never get it back
What the hell is wrong with people who are perfectly willing to destroy a specie for profit....capitalism is another word for death to the planet.

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m3n0z

(53 posts)
1. Are you talking about capitalism
Mon Jan 29, 2018, 02:58 AM
Jan 2018

Or industrialization. Capitalism has it's daemons and industrialization requires destruction. Personally, I can not see a point in the future where capitalism and industrialization are completely removed from society. However I think the negatives associated with both will be greatly mitigated. Of course that really depends on who the decision makers and power brokers are....

JohnnyRingo

(18,636 posts)
3. It sure ruined FM radio
Mon Jan 29, 2018, 05:24 AM
Jan 2018

Once upon a time radio stations were owned by many independent companies. The DJs played what they wanted, and innovation and rising talent ruled the airways. When corporations were allowed to swallow up every station in the country, sameness and open payola took over.

Now money will do the same thing to the internet.

alarimer

(16,245 posts)
7. That's the Telecommunications Act of 1996
Mon Jan 29, 2018, 10:51 AM
Jan 2018

Signed into law by Bill Clinton. Democrats have a major share of the blame for media consolidation (which is good for no one) and deregulation of the financial industry.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
4. Actually, a government could (& would) do that, too. So it's not capitalism, per se.
Mon Jan 29, 2018, 05:24 AM
Jan 2018

If it were Trump's decision to do that for the govt, I can assure you he would in a heartbeat.

My main issue used to be the environment and nature and Mother Earth, but I have all but given up.

Demsrule86

(68,586 posts)
6. We know who wants to do this thus we must fight every election to elect Democrats and never
Mon Jan 29, 2018, 08:04 AM
Jan 2018

ever help Republicans in any way by believing their trumped up shit.

ronnie624

(5,764 posts)
9. Mainstream economic 'theory' is a book of magical incantations,
Mon Jan 29, 2018, 11:48 AM
Jan 2018

as it stands directly at odds with the Laws of Thermodynamics. The Law of Conservation states that converting and dispersing matter and energy will never result in a net increase in value. Capitalism also presupposes that the earth's resources and human labor (the only available source of enegy to drive economic activity) are the property of elites, and that they have an imperative to profit from them. The concept of market economics is primitive, illogical, wasteful, destructive, morally illegitimate, and it promptly collapses with minimal scrutiny of its underpinning false assumptions. It's a prime example of humanity's penchant for collective insanity.

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