careinke wrote:
The vast majority of people worldwide do NOT lack "basic needs." If they did, they would be dead.
SeaGypsy wrote:The problem I have with the projection of hard socialism as the necessary response to the end of overall economic growth, is that it is based in the assumption that TPTB give a hoot what happens to the masses in consequence. I don't believe this. There may be a popular demand for communism, hard socialism, post collapse, but I doubt that matters much. For as long as the global casino keeps operating, the house keeps winning, why would those owning the casino shut it down? Why would they care if most of their punters are throwing themselves off the nearest tall building? There is no altruism at the level where it really matters. Social security is an insurance against revolt, not the generosity of a caring benefactor. I can't see any reason to believe anything other than hardening resolve to continue profiting regardless how obviously the pie is shrinking. Capitalism is dog eat dog. Capitalists don't suddenly become bleeding heart lefties.
SeaGypsy wrote:P, ha! A commie witch hunt lol! I haven't really read enough of Onlooker to get a handle there yet. Ralphy is the only one I hammer at, mainly because I'm lazy & he is an easy target. American Dream is a fully out Marxist, who works from home playing the markets, a tad hypocritical, but at least up front.
At some point or other I have found agreement with all of the above, as with most posters here. But some ideas are really pie in the sky. The idea of sudden conversion to communism as peak everything mitigation strategy is about as absurd as a global Manhattan project. Nice ideas, never going to happen.
Sorry for being old & cynical.
SeaGypsy wrote:See Pstarr, I agree with every word the Marxist just wrote.
SeaGypsy wrote:Sorry mate, you don't like the label, I shall desist. I agree with your ethics, just doubt the likelihood of common sense prevailing in a world which it has become so much less than common.
SeaGypsy wrote:Sorry mate, you don't like the label, I shall desist. I agree with your ethics, just doubt the likelihood of common sense prevailing in a world which it has become so much less than common.
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