From a person in a nursing home.
”Organized capitalism is an evil thing in itself,” he said in an interview in a shady courtyard of the Spanish-style residence home. ”It’s profits versus people.”
I’d like to see a country where everyone operated at a loss. A people’s country.
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Just another example showing that many people don’t understand what profitability indicates. Profits indicate efficient use of resources.
When the profit motive is removed, resources are invariably misallocated to the detriment of us all. Our bloated leviathan Federal Government is an example of this.
How many people has this person killed:0 How many people has organized capitalism killed to numerous to count!
Perhaps he never killed anybody, but only because he failed. When he joined the Communist Party, he joined a conspiracy to genocide.
“To numerous to count”=”I can count to ten!”.
Capitalists would be holding winter sporting events at a resort known for snow.
The cost of hauling snow to Sochi by aircraft is estimated in the 10s of billions. You can feed a LOT of hungry people with that kind of loose change.
Potempkin Villages return.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-potemkin-village-20140211,0,7970143.story
In the 1920s and ‘30s, socialists from Britain and United States were given tours of Soviet collective farms where joyful peasants appeared to be producing wheat in abundance. The Westerners were fooled into believing they had seen the vanguard of a glorious egalitarian future, when, in fact, the forced collectivization contributed to the famine of 1932-33 that killed millions of Russians.
In the 1970s and ‘80s, the bluster of Soviet leaders hid the truth that the Russian economy and military were hollow shells. Of course, just like the duped left-wing “fellow travelers” earlier in the century, American military and political leaders chose to believe the lie because it reinforced their own ideological goal — in their case, continuing the Cold War arms race.
Now, Russian President Vladimir Putin has spent $50 billion on an Olympics that looks real enough but may be as ephemeral in its own way as Potemkin’s fake town. The snow is mostly manufactured. The crowds of international travelers have stayed away, scared off by threats of terrorism, the hassles of Russian bureaucracy and the exorbitant cost of attending the Games. The new resort infrastructure — built on a mountain of graft and bribery — is hardly guaranteed to become the destination for jet-setters Putin says it will be.
And, just as the dazzling evocation of Russian history presented in the opening ceremonies left out the dark episodes of oppression and cruelty that are the central theme of that history, the image of Russia being projected by these Olympics masks the reality of Russia’s stagnant economy, weak legal system and stunted democracy.
how many died at bophal or johnstown or asbetos from manville its more then ten from those alone. Also read the book the social history of the machine gun!
Aral Sea. Ukraine famine. Industrial accidents in the USSR. The Gulag. North Korea’s extermination camps. Pol Pot. The Shining Path. “Up against the wall”. The “midnight knock on the door”.
cap*, you are equating technology with capitalism. But technology kills more people under communism and socialism.
http://www.stephenhicks.org/2013/07/14/lessons-from-bhopal/