I cannot but agree. Indeed, were the half of the famous claim by Winston Churchill still true that,"The vice of capitalism is he unequal distribution of blessing," versus the blessing of socialism being the equal distribution of misery, then the author's implication would be legitimate that present complaints are only leftist propaganda. Of course it is reasonable to expect those who most benefit society and contribute most to everyone being better off, deserve a larger slice of that pie. Further, if you don’t give it to them, they have no motivation and all will be worse off.



But Mr. Churchill penned these words before commercialism took over.



His words made sense when entrepreneurs studied the market to see what people themselves actually needed and where they didn’t have it available. They then vied to provide these at a products and services at competitive prices and quality through improved process. The product and its advantages were then advertised and pushed with a bit of sales talk—no problem in that.



Today, however? The question is what could be produced or provided the most cheaply and sold for the most money. This, as a general rule, has nothing to do with people’s actual benefit. Rather they are TOLD—through a well-crafted science of mass psychology what they are to need--for the benefit of the provider, not themselves. This artificial creation of market and the overproduction of the unnecessary, objectively undesirable, drains peoples resources without providing them a “better life." Then there is the promotion of waste though artificial obsolescence, needless duplication, etc.

The common people are robbed by a flow of paper capital injected in place of real value like a mosquito's poison for blood that translates to their hard earned money not buying the value that they put into getting it. Then comes “too big to fail” versus “terminate at will,” that says big business can make money on taking risks whose worst-case scenarios they won’t have to pay for, etc., etc.



Then there are the realities of real power regarding access to politicians, etc.



In short, this is a world of barbell economy, where the few get very richer, and the vast majority get poorer—as well as suffer the damage left behind in the planet ravaging.



To write such articles in the face of what everyone sees with their own eyes is simply evermore dangerous.



I can’t but help remember a silent film I saw—granted propaganda, but telling nonetheless—involving a mutiny of a Russian naval vessel. The officers ate well, but the sailors complained they’re simple meat was maggot-ridden. An officer came to inspect, looked through a large magnifying glass where it was clear that maggot were writhing everywhere in the meat. The officer then looked up and with a sincere expression declared, “There is absolute nothing wrong with this meat.” At that very moment, the mutiny broke out.

