Money and (true) Capitalism - VIDEO

[Andreuccio]

Re: Money and (true) Capitalism - VIDEO

You are the second kind-hearted person to have wished my wife well. I was joking about being so pissed off hoping to imply that I took my anger out on her physically, thus sending her to the ER, before I took out my anger on poor metalman. I didn't act with violence against wife.

I missed the joke/implication. I assumed you were pissed due to the stress of taking her to the ER for whatever illness befell her. It didn't occur to me you would have hit her.

[jk]

Re: Money and (true) Capitalism - VIDEO

i knew you were joking, jim.

[Jim Nickerson]

Re: Money and (true) Capitalism - VIDEO

i knew you were joking, jim.

jk, you ain't The Brain without reasons.

[Ann]

Re: Money and (true) Capitalism - VIDEO

i knew you were joking, jim.

Ha ha......

[Spartacus]

Re: Money and (true) Capitalism - VIDEO

You may also enjoy "Voltaire's Bastards'

Especially the story of how Paris got sewers. "total Free market" people AFAICT never really operate in the real world.

love your posts, sapiens, but in my view it ain't this simple. i used to believe this. then i read michael hudson, kevin phillips, and a ton of history. inspired by this site.

rand free market capitalism is a fool's utopia. in an unregulated democratic capitalist system, money concentrates to gain control over the political institutions and communications media. elections are skewed by spending differentials and sometimes outright rigged. mass perception is shaped at will. it was greenpan's rand idealism that made him the perfect tool for the fire economy elite to produce a centralized government for their interests. he tore down the regulatory framework and threw open the doors to economic planning by banks, insurance companies, and real estate interests. look where that's got us. huge deficits. asset bubbles. unfunded liabilities. debt serfs. war.

isn't this free market capitalist ideology nothing more than the flip side of equally impractical socialist idealism?

[Andreuccio]

Re: Money and (true) Capitalism - VIDEO

jk, you ain't The Brain without reasons.

Uh oh. If he's the Brain, what does that leave for me to be?

[Jim Nickerson]

Re: Money and (true) Capitalism - VIDEO

Uh
oh. If he's the Brain, what does that leave for me to be?

Stick around, someone will figure it out, or you can tell us.