To begin with, I am well familiar with the talking points of those who are pro capitalism. Yes, it’s the best of the “isms” we have had so far. Yes, capitalism has pushed innovation which has enabled us to advance technologically. But these arguments are obsolete, for now we can clearly see what damage capitalism is doing and it’s obvious we need radical changes made to our societies to make them happy and less dysfunctional.
It is often described as a machine, which drives itself forward, a sort of living thing which we created and now have no control over. I think this is bollocks. I think the ideology has served its purpose now and has become a kind of zombie which relentlessly churns up the humans who serve it. It used to be an economic model designed to serve the people, but now we have a society of people who exist to serve the economic model of capitalism.
Here are just a few reasons why I despise the ideology:
Freedom
First and foremost! Freedom is one of my core values and the artificial freedom granted in a capitalist system isn’t much freedom at all. This is something which is preached ad nauseum by advocates of capitalism, that we have freedom to choose our own path. To be what we want to be etc. The American Dream
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In reality the only freedom you truly have is the freedom to choose which corporate masters you wish to serve. If I wish not to participate in the relentless and soul crushing rat race then I will lose my car, my home and if I have kids they will he abducted by social services, government approved kidnappers. So what freedom does one really have in a system which forces unwilling participants to go work for a living?!
If you wake up and you don’t want to go to work at a shitty job for 40 hours a week or whatever you cannot make the decision to stay at home and do something different. You go to work because you have no other choice. It is just clandestine slavery and not everybody is honest enough to admit it.
You don’t even have the freedom to be your authentic self in this society. Talk about how you don’t want to work and see how your peers react. Tell your interviewer you only want the job because you need money to survive and feed your kids instead of falsifying absolute passion for the company and see how far that gets you.
Another way our freedom is affected is through our so-called government representatives. People who we vote for in the theatre of democracy are nothing more than corporate puppets who travel to Davos every year to receive their orders from their corporate overlords like Bill Gates. If you don’t think this is true, then just look into how Bill Gates made the government of India pass legislation that forced Indian farmers to use Monsanto products.
[youtube]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7sArXw6ajNg&t=37s[/youtube]
For anyone interested there is a full documentary here about the nature of the cage. Describing in full detail how we are endentured servants to the banks and their system of debt slavery to fiat currency. A must see for anyone who hates capitalist society half as much as I do!
Education
This is another one that pisses me off. Education. Why do I know several people who are “educated” but never anyone who is intelligent?! The answer is because there is a difference between knowledge and intelligence. Knowledge is simply retaining information. You either know something or you don’t. The people I referred to as “educated” simply retained a lot of information from school. Whereas intelligence is something different entirely. Intelligence is how someone processes information.
So who is more intelligent really? The university student who blindly accepts everything he is told from authority figures? Or the drop out who thinks the system is bullshit and questions everything he is told by authority figures?
In school you are taught to sit down and shut up, to listen to the teacher as they “educate” you with everything you need to know to advance into the corporate world. I confess I found the whole prospect very daunting at a young age. I was very depressed because of it. But to most of my classmates it all came naturally sitting down and folding their arms like little drones. I think this is the true essence of a capitalist education system, one which instills mindless conformity into children and prepare them with all the compliance they need to get by.
Nothing practical is taught in schools. There is no self defence or martial arts training to obtain knowledge on how to survive a violent attack from some asshole trying to hurt you. No first aid training so you might know how to help someone in need. No philosophical lessons on morals or ethics or how to treat other human beings. I mean, for f**k sake they don’t even give you lessons on how to manage finances or how to deal with depression and things like that.
Then there is the trap of further education. Tuition fees costing thousands and thousands (my brother went to university and I think his tuition fees are somewhere in the realm of 44K) and all the hoops you have to jump through just to get a decent job are ridiculous. Plus, there is no equality in society anyway when rich assholes like Boris Johnson can get into private boarding schools because their parents are rich. Where is the equality in that?!
Even this trans agenda being pushed in schools is part of this bullshit drive for profit and power and yet again it is Big Pharma who are raking it in with the influx of gender confused teens who are taking hormone blockers and transitioning without being made aware of the dangers.
https://nypost.com/2021/08/20/gender-id ... al-rights/
Environment
@flowerthief01 if you’re still lurking somewhere on this forum then I suppose I’m the last person you’d expect to make a post which addresses the environmental issues caused by capitalism
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Long term the ideology is completely unsustainable, and I’m not just talking about the inevitable economic collapse, but the environmental damage caused by all these companies. Just 100 companies are responsible (supposedly) for 70% of the world’s pollution.
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable ... ate-change
Burning fossil fuels to provide companies with power and fuel to provide a load of shit we don’t even need. A simpler way of life would be much more friendly to the environment and to the mental health of others as well as the community. @Outcast9428 likes to blame the degeneracy of modern society on the erosion of traditional values. I blame the erosion of values on capitalism. The zombie ideology which sucks the life and authenticity out of everything.
I know some advocates of capitalism like to blame China for the majority of the pollution and harmful emissions released into the environment, but look at what most of the shit you own says on it. “Made in China” they are just mass producing more shit we don’t even need to pander to this materialistic drive to have “things” most of these things are just material bullshit nobody needs at all. They are a detriment to everything and should be gotten rid of.
Advertising
One of the most annoying and intrusive ways Capitalism pisses me off. Advertising is everywhere and it’s in your face every day anywhere you go. It’s on people’s t-shirts, their trainers and outfits etc as they walk around as walking billboards for products or even just advertising clothing brands.
TV shows and movies are interrupted with adverts everyone finds annoying trying to annoy you into buying shit you don’t want. YouTube has been saturated with annoying adverts (some of them advertising YouTube premium) which are designed to make you buy some subscription based service which people used to enjoy for free.
Music like YouTube music and Spotify etc all use the same shitty tactics and bombard you with adverts, often advertising their own premium services and essentially trying to bug you into buying what they’re selling. I won’t be annoyed into a paid subscription. These parasites can f**k off.
Worst of all though and possibly the most detestable way these companies advertise to people is when they cut out the middle man by advertising directly to children. All the colourful toys and chocolates are all placed at eye level for children. Daytime television advertising is mostly catered towards kids at home innocently watching their cartoons etc. It’s the equivalent of a salesman knocking at my door and asking to speak to my daughter directly and then asking her if she wants to buy a sweetie. It’s unethical as f**k and it utterly disgusts me!
Commoditised Love
This is really sickening! One thing I hate about a capitalist society is how love is commoditised by these companies and corporations. Romantic love is commoditised through valentines day, mothers day, fathers day, birthdays and even Christmas.
If you don’t buy things for those you love there is some kind of offense implied. Obviously, the more money you spend on someone is an indication of how much you love them.
Weddings costing in excess of 10k just to make a commitment to the one you love. Why? It’s f***ing extortionate.
Then there are cards! Does anyone even use these? Hallmark cards which have a generic “I love you” message printed by Hallmark and people just sign their name at the bottom. Seriously how much meaning does this actually have?! Wouldn’t it be more authentic to just SAY what it is you want to say instead of paying £5 to get Hallmark to say it for you!
Anyone ever hear of De Beers? The assholes who monopolised the diamond industry and created artificial scarcity to control the market? They also made marketing campaigns “Nothing says I love you like a ten thousand pound engagement ring”. Absolutely sickening!
Health and Wellbeing
Finally, when you come to the end of your life. And your physical and mental health are exhausted and all the money you’ve ever earned through your labour circulates back into a system of slavery anyway. You can enjoy a few years in an old folks home or shivering under a blanket in your bungalow stinking of piss. What a brilliant and wonderful life we have here in the west. So much joy and happiness and purpose to all this.
Big Pharma is our enemy. Under a capitalist system how can Big Pharma possibly seek to eradicate and cure disease? They would be in the business of putting themselves out of business. Under a capitalist system this isn’t a good business model. Things like psilocybin, which have been known to totally cure depression and help ptsd in soldiers is made illegal and instead we are offered anti depressant medication so we can be a life long customer of the pharmaceutical corporations!
Things like cigarettes and alcohol are legal because of the revenue they generate, despite all the problems they cause. Cancer and thugs drunk on booze are products of cigarettes and alcohol. I was a big drinker in my youth and I had many fall outs with partners, friends and family through drink!
Even today, in the UK and probably in most places in the world taxes and energy prices are rising and our politicians justify this by saying it will help the economy in the future. Again, a fictitious economic system which has no basis in reality is favoured over the lives and wellbeing of actual living human beings!
And let’s not forget about war and how profitable THAT is! Just take a look at all these nobhead arms dealers on American media pushing the narrative that more weapons need to be sold to Ukraine!
https://youtu.be/RZol2ywFYUQ
Conclusion
We need a radical change to our way of life. We need a society which is conducive to the lives and happiness of human beings! The old system of capitalism has become utterly obsolete with the rise of automation! Capitalism is completely unsustainable for the future and the elites themselves know this! That is why they want to implement the Great Reset before complete economic collapse.
Unfortunately, such a new system would need to be fought for! As the elites will never be willing to surrender their power and artificial wealth. Freedom is never GIVEN away. We have to fight for it and obtain it through violent struggle to implement a new system of freedom and flourishing for human beings.
Anyone who supports this current system of economic slavery is either a degenerate or has their head buried deep in the sand. I spoke about this in my thread about slavish people supporting their own slavery and ours in my Are Those Who Push The Proletariat Work Ethic Degenerates. Here is the link if you haven’t seen that thread already!
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What do you guys think? There’s a few of you I said I would tag in this thread.
@publicduende @WanderingProtagonist
@E Irizarry R&B Singer
@WilliamSmith
@Tsar
@Lucas88