It was this realisation that truly radicalised me - Universal healthcare, food, childcare, housing, good welfare, well-defended equality and rights, these things are GOOD for the economy. Never mind the workers - these things would make the RICH bourgeois class richer.
And they’re still against them. Because extremely short-term profits are better. And control over a beaten, oppressed class is easier. And you feel more on-top if you punish everyone else enough. People say capitalism is about profit - but it isn’t. It’s about capital ever-more concentrating the world’s wealth into itself, whether by profit, theft, or simply destroying all other wealth.
It does seem like the modern capitalist class isn’t satisfied with just being super rich anymore, they want to be divine nobles who are worshiped. They’d probably be willing to sacrifice a lot of their material comfort it they meant they got to have people sacrificed to them while they sit on top of a big ziggurat.
It was this realisation that truly radicalised me - Universal healthcare, food, childcare, housing, good welfare, well-defended equality and rights, these things are GOOD for the economy. Never mind the workers - these things would make the RICH bourgeois class richer.
And they’re still against them. Because extremely short-term profits are better. And control over a beaten, oppressed class is easier. And you feel more on-top if you punish everyone else enough. People say capitalism is about profit - but it isn’t. It’s about capital ever-more concentrating the world’s wealth into itself, whether by profit, theft, or simply destroying all other wealth.
Capitalism is a suicidal and sadistic death cult.
It does seem like the modern capitalist class isn’t satisfied with just being super rich anymore, they want to be divine nobles who are worshiped. They’d probably be willing to sacrifice a lot of their material comfort it they meant they got to have people sacrificed to them while they sit on top of a big ziggurat.
that is historically the norm (for the vitor cultures who wrote history)