Global Economy
Global Economy
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- TheBlueOne0
What's different this time around is the speed of wealth transfers from anywhere to anywhere globally beyond the reach of any single nation state and the utter lack of mobility of labor. Capitalism is all mere speculation now and nothing to do with producing products of value. But go ahead and defend it if you must, but if you're not playing with speculators money then you really aren't in the system. A lesson all these tea party peeps in the US don't seem to grasp.
- and the political power that stateless money now has in each country. Finance is literally out of control and wrapping us..mikotondria3
- ..all up within it's self-perpetuating tentacles. Politics was designed to buffer the endless power of the rich, and...mikotondria3
- ..now that buffer has gone, and money has starting making the rules about how we behave toward each other and it.mikotondria3
- Politics wasnt designed to buffer rich. Speakign of a republic at least. it was designed to protect individual rightsdeathboy
- rights.deathboy
- you are oblivious to the concept of structural violence, aren't you deathboy. Read some classic Huntington and Tedd Gurr for example.TheBlueOne
- I however don't believe politics is "designed" it's biologically innate. We're primates. Social positioning is what we doTheBlueOne
- political systems are merely tools, and it's silly to pledge loyalty to one over another...TheBlueOne
- ..it's all context and end-state target dependentTheBlueOne
- There's nothing inherently better or worse between capitalism, socialism, etc...TheBlueOne
- depends on the aims of a given society in relation to it's neighbors and own internal idealsTheBlueOne