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CAPITALISM |
| Inflation |
| The only purpose of
inflation is to take more money from the poor and give it to the rich, because prices and profit margins will always go up more than wages. |
| Capitalism has to have
inflation:
To keep up the selling and
buying, you must have, The comment of a Third
World base Christian |
| The Need to Create "Demand" |
| The purpose of human
existence seems to be to sell things, things no one really needs at that. Producing necessities (food, clothing, shelter, utilities) currently fills x millions of jobs: no one else needs to work. |
| Capitalism is a system
that gives less of a reward to the production of one unit of a quality product that people really need and will last a long time, than to the production of twenty units of a shoddy product that (a) no one needs but which, through advertising, people are made to think they need, and (b) will quickly either go out of "fashion" or wear out, and then need to be replaced with another similarly useless, soon-itself-needing-to- be-replaced product. |
| Distortions Produced |
| The opposite of
capitalist efficiency isn't socialist inefficiency. Efficiency per se isn't bad. If there's a burning house with many children inside, you want the most efficient way to get as many of them out as possible. The most efficient way is the way both the socialist and the (hopefully caring enough!) capitalist would choose. The crux is to what purpose the efficiency is put: to derive maximum profit, vs. to derive maximum benefit to the most human beings. |
| The atomization of
work: before, everyone did a full job; now, most do a part of a job that by itself is meaningless. |
| Advertising (is
anti-spiritual because it) tries to make you believe you're not whole and need this or that product to be okay. Many people can't afford to buy these products and, feeling like a failure as a result, they turn to drugs to numb their artificially induced pain. |
| Prostitution is the
ultimate degradation of capitalism. |
| If They Can't Sell You It... |
| The only reasons
they forbid sex are because they haven't found a way to charge your for it, and, the church needs something they can make you scared of going to Hell for, so you need them to intercede for you. |
| It's child abuse to
bring a baby into this world, especially into societies like ours, which do everything possible to prevent self-realization, because they can't sell you it. It's a criminal act to
bring a baby into this world in |
| Political |
| Capitalism can, in a
country that is rich (either naturally or through plunder), provide a "safety net" of sorts for 20-30% of its population; but in a country that is poor (either naturally or through past oppression and exploitation), 70-80% of the population needs a safety net, and the safety net becomes the system -- in other words, socialism or communism. In such a situation, there's no place for a capitalistic, free-for-all, get-as-rich-as- you-can-as-fast-as-you-can system or individual. |
| Capitalism wants you to
be unhappy, or else you won’t buy stuff, and won't kill, rape and go to war; hence, also, civilization’s trying to limit people’s sexual pleasure, which is free and could make people very happy indeed. |
| What kind of a society
is it which, instead of constantly giving positive input to its members (e.g., you're beautiful, wonderful, smart and intelligent; you have a wonderful job; your life is worthwhile; you have what you need), continually injects into them, almost forcibly, the most horrific negative messages (e.g., you're not smart, these other people are; you're not beautiful, so buy this to make up for it; you smell, so buy this to stop smelling; you should envy, and do envy, all the riches of others that we're showing you; you should be afraid of, and are afraid of, these other people and countries, and want to kill them to protect yourself) -- not to mention bombarding their physiological being with chemical poisons and other negative inputs (e.g., noise, ugly sights)? |
| Communism is an ideology
which promises something to those who have nothing. Capitalism is an ideology
which guarantees to If you had nothing,
which ideology would you be |
| Spiritual |
| Money relationships are
the opposite of community, because there's no caring, fun, or respect for the uniqueness of individuals -- only how can this profit me. |
| We celebrate Christmas by the
most anti-Christ message possible: the kingdom of heaven isn't within you; you're not whole and complete; but rather, what will get you the kingdom and make you whole and complete, is out there, for purchase. |
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Private Property and Profit
If we can't share mere
things, how can we share If I must have something
and you not, how can |
| In a capitalistic society, the more
poor and downtrodden a person is, the closer that person is to God, to the way God would act if God were a person (in other words, Jesus Christ!) |
| The unfettered
"market" is the unfettered Devil, taking from the poor, causing pain and death, and enriching those least deserving. |
| Capitalism is the
economic philosophy of the Anti-Christ, Satan. |
| Very interesting: Marxism,
per Paul Baran, replaces capitalism's irrationality, based on the greed and avarice of the few (Wilbur's level 2-3), with the rule of reason (Wilber's level 4); thus Marxism seems to be that very level 4 (and level 5 of total cooperation and the start of the dissolution of ego) which Wilber postulates mankind must reach in order to avoid catastrophe. |
 Man can own: a country (monarchy) people (slavery) [compare to big business (capitalism) Wilber's levels only his own labor of conscious- (socialism/communism) ness chart] Self (Buddhism) |