Great Video acidman. I remember seeing it before.
 Originally Posted by Serkat
No, actually capitalism is based on free trade and you need a whole bunch of people to keep it going. Your money becomes worthless if you just killed 90% of the population in the process of acquiring it because then there's probably not even a guy at McDonalds who can make you a burger, or a guy building streets to drive on. So it's pointless to kill your customers, I thought that would be pretty obvious.
I agree with most of the rest of your post though, but not in that there are people out there who think anyone has a big-time advantage from large-scale homicide.
Sure. A Free Market. That's what they tell us it is. Except it does not serve the people, it limits and opresses them.Their freedom has become inferior, profit maximalisation has become superior interrest. We're all so caught up making money that we forget human values and community spirit. The economical elite is making very sure that people in middle and lower classes STAY there and don't rise up. They wouldn't want to share their fortunes. Ever wondered why the Economical Elite class always consists of so very little people?
Try starting a carreer as an artist, make and sell some paintings and behold as the Taxcollectors snatch away 2/3d of your hard, honoustly earned income. This happened to my brother-in-law. He has a very minimal income and sold some paintings and now the taxcollector-nazis are confiscating pretty much all of it. There's no way a man can rise up the economical ladder and make a decent living this way. Sure the illusion that "if you really want to and work hard at it" is being put up, but I'm not having that BS.
So if we've already come to the point we no longer see humans as valuable beings, but as consumers, we've already taken a very wrong turn.
From this materialistic, ego-centric perspective take a look at the vast majority of human population: Poor poor poor. Too poor to live in a proper house, too poor to have clean water, too poor to have enough to eat. These people aren't at all attractive consumers. From this sick perspective: These people only cost alot of money.
And poor people make up the vast majority of the human population. They're not even going to be able to make the big boys money. They are not going to buy cars, cellphones, playstation 3, PCs... So killing them, the poor majority, would be the wickedminded Capitalist desire. Yes we have been properly brainwashed to fear communism and to embrace Capitalism. But Capitalism's ideal of "you can become a hero from zero" is an illusion, to keep the poor, hardworking masses working towards that illusion. You think the big boys are just gunna welcome the masses of poor people to come play their profit games and share in their welfare? Think again.
 Originally Posted by Serkat
Can you imagine... clean water, food and air, living in communities with animals and people who care... then you get an infection and you're fucking dead. Sounds like a spoiled hippie with romanticized ideas of the past (ironically taken from the big bad media) just took a dump on human achievement.
You sound like you're very frustrated about something. As if you have no hope. As if you don't dare to dream. This is exactly the blindness that our "free-market"-based society propagates us from birth. Respect your superiors, Have blind Faith in the System and fear, redicule and bash anyone who opposes this "glorious system". And those that propagate another system are fools.Right?
If you get an infection and die than at least it wasn't an unnececairy suffering. I myself would rather die of an infection in some hippy community in nature, then being bombarderd with my loved ones in a city. Disease and infection are unavoidable things in life; They're natural. However we humans and our ego-centric moneymindedness make eachother's lives an endless misery. War, economical exploitation, Dictatorial states, Terror, Racism, Fascism..etc All these manmade disasters are unnececairy and unnatural. We oughta know better than that.
Capitalism makes us forget that we should work together to survive as a community, and instead makes us think we should just garantee our own survival and to see others as competition. Divide and Rule. It's a millenia old way of dominating and exploiting people that works just as well today as it did in pre-roman times. You are the living proof of that.
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