Is Capitalism Unsustainable?

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

When I look at how I grew up and became aware of my surroundings (mid to late 60's) and on my street there were 3 corner shops - one at each end and one in the middle. And a Co-op down the hill where my mum did the shopping and collected the dividend stamps. It was early to mid 70's that the supermarkets arrived and the corner shops started to go one by one. Successful independent businesses began to be taken over by larger - but still local - businesses or entrepreneurs. Come Thatcher and regional businesses were then being taken over by national companies. And of course the wicked witch of Grantham flogged all that we as the people owned off to the highest bidder via share issues...

Thank god Morrissey came along to rescue you!

 

[SWP's back]

We are fools.

Speak for yourself pal.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Speak for yourself pal.

:)

 

[pirate]

As already mentioned, what we have right now is nothing like the true meaning of capitalism... what we have is neoliberalism which is basically socialism for the banks, the corporations and the wealthy elite.

its not socialism for the banks, the corporations and the wealthy elite.
They act as a cartel, thats not socialism

 

[pirate]

What I mean by the bank dictatorship is that we think we live in an open free world where we make our own choices and choose our own jobs and where we live and what we spend. But really, we don’t. What we really live in is a society that makes us part of the larger system controlled by banks and the 1%ers at the top of the money tree, not the governments who are supposedly in power. The banks and 1%ers are really our dictators. Every choice we think we make for ourselves is actually made to make them richer. We also think we live in democratic countries where we have a vote. But really we don’t live in a democracy. We vote for parties who come in and tell us what they’re going to do and we can’t vote on any of those month-to-month, day-to-day, decisions. Look at Britain leaving the European Union; we voted to leave but actually have had not one jot of a say in any of the negotiations so really we haven’t voted for a damn thing for ourselves. We just think we have because we’re so institutionalised in living in the society we live in. We are fools. No decisions are really made for society as a whole, they’re made for the banks and 1%ers to make more money. We are taken into wars or wars are started with no consultation with the public in any way whatsoever because war is a business. The world is purposely destabilised leading to a need to trade arms and reparations for those top people to make money.

Henry Ford (yes, I know he was a Nazi contributer but...) once said "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning"

if thats true then there is no point doing anything, because every choice we make for ourselves is actually to make them richer

 

[Brightwell’s left peg]

Capitalism, as envisaged by those espousing it as some kind of structural and political ideal, has been “succeeded” by Corporatism/Corporate Fascism.

Look at the latest Tax “Reform” effort in the USA to see that multinational corporations that suck all your dollars from your wallet have staged a bloodless coup in the United States. They are even willing to support clear imbeciles like Trump, nd give pedophiles and child molesters elected power and stature to ensure they get to keep their own. Unless voters step in to stop the inexorable march of the Billionaire class (and the whole “fake news” is designed to obfuscate and confused the poor idiot voters from even knowing what is going on around them) then we are heading for an Orwellian/V for Vendetta type future, where the only way we can survive is to be beholden to power, with the romanticized notion of an uprising or popular revolt is quashed as soon as any green shoot rises above the earth.

Deepest irony is they all spouse deep religious beliefs, too!

So, “What WOULD Jesus Do????”

If Jesus saw his flock in the USA, he'd look at his dad and say " let me get this straight, you made me die for this bunch of pricks...thanks big guy, thanks a lot!!"

I'm not religious by the way, so obviously the above is made up bollocks. Like the Bible.

 

[bluethrunthru]

So once a corporation is global, where can they go? They can't gain any more ground. And once technology has ran out of new products to flog us (Apple spring to mind) or the public gets wise and refuses to follow the hype and advertising and doesn't bother buying the emperor's new clothes which these products are, then we will see a change in the capitalist system.
It's sheep we're up against

Apple was recently described as a tax avoiding business that happens to have a small IT subsidary company attached - they are already there and have gone on to just moving money around the globe - the ultimate face of capitalism. Producing nothing but getting richer.

 

[pee dubya]

If Jesus saw his flock in the USA, he'd look at his dad and say " let me get this straight, you made me die for this bunch of pricks...thanks big guy, thanks a lot!!"

I'm not religious by the way, so obviously the above is made up bollocks. Like the Bible.

I dunno, seems pretty believable apart from Jesus calling God 'big guy'.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Thank god Morrissey came along to rescue you!

Not tonight he didn't

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Not tonight he didn't

Has he cancelled again?