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    David McCaskill Elliott posted an update 5 years, 2 months ago

    Dark as the landscape around us is, we easily identify here the extreme limit of capitalism, the complete alignment of technology with Big money. The giveaway is the WEF website, and a promo video in which a vacant grinning youth is happy in owning nothing — brilliant counterpoint to the elite’s goal of owning everything. For centuries, unbridled capitalism has had to accommodate itself to annoying human proclivities such as intelligence, wisdom, and love of freedom and beauty. Klaus and his mates have hit upon an alternative: reshape humanity to suit capitalism; remake humans as robotic slaves, whose every activity perfectly serves and enriches the few. By marshalling an army of ‘little helpers’ — digitally-educated, media-compliant, risk-averse, inexperienced but self-righteous Zoomers and Alphas — this new world will soon be in the bag…..-(John Griffin) from this article-https://off-guardian.org/2021/01/24/covid-odyssey/

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      FiatLux replied 5 years, 2 months ago

      Capitalism has its good and bad points. Personally, I think it works fairly well if it’s kept in check by law to avoid its extremes (both extreme poverty and extreme wealth). I’m not sure I’d call what Klaus & Co. are promoting “capitalism,” at least not in any traditional sense of the word. It’s something like totalitarian, technocratic social control, coupled with corporate monopolies on enterprise and accumulation of capital–a society can easily have capitalism without all of that.