Re: The Chinese Connection

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The Trucker wrote:



Until we get rid of global power mongers we will have
a problem.


If you do get rid of them, 1) a new class will
arise or 2) you'll have a different set of problems.



Watch "Soylent Green" (which is the end goal/result of
Neocon "free market capitalism") and one realizes any
'different set of problems' is preferable.


"Soylent Green" is a dystopian work. Dystopian works
refer to the tendencies of planned economies - such
as what's in North Korea now.



Not even close.  Soylent Green portrays the end result of
corporate (i.e. human) greed,

No. Greed is satiable 


Greed is in fact insatiable.  It's been proven over and over
by 5000 years of human history and is a basic teaching of
every one of the world's major religions.



Look to the term "marginal value". For rational people,
each additional dollar is worth slightly less than the one
before. This works out to be a convergent Taylor series.

That forms an upper limit. Therefore greed is satiable.
Granted, the satiety point may not be feasible, but
it exists. One of the goals of political economy
is moving that satiety point closer to feasible.

People with insatiable greed exhibit a psychological
pathology, and that's not in the scope of normative
political economy.

and not nearly sufficient for
what's painted in "Soylent Green".



Absolute nonsense.  In fact it's already happening.  Real
wages are declining, most American employees are living
from paycheck to paycheck while millions of others have
had their jobs outsourced altogether, all while corporate
robber barons continue to siphon record levels of salaries
and bonuses from their companies.  Just 20 years more
of this and America's middle class will be a fond memory.



You're referring to an approximately five-year,
post bubble stretch of time. It's nothing more than
cycles making a return.

We've had similar experiences in the '80s and
'90s, for varying lengths of time. Each time,
the down cycle ended. Granted, it looks
scary when you're a certain age and it's "happening
to you".

"Greed == cannibalism" might work after your fifth bong hit. 


Again, we're already close to it.  At this point, greed is
taking precedence over public health.  Which is why e.g.
Nabisco doesn't seem to have a problem with giving heart
disease to tens of millions of Americans, as long as Oreos
can have a longer shelf life.  Perversion beyond description.


If a proven link between Oreos and heart disease exists,
there'd be a class action suit. *Un*proven links are used to
justify them all the time.


It doesn't work after that. Read Orwell. Understand it.
It takes a while.


where planet Earth's natural
resources have been destroyed


Planet Earth's natural resources have been destroyed many
times over. She keeps coming back.



More nonsense.  When was the last time Earth's rain forests
were completely destroyed?


Various ecosystems have come and gone throughout human
history. Rainforests may or may not be significant.

 We're 30 years away from
doing exactly that, and no one knows the consequences it
will have.




That's right. We cannot know. All we can do is play 'em as they
lie.

--
Les Cargill
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