A lot of people owe their livelihoods to multi-national corporations, also, and feel employed rather than enslaved. There IS an important distinction, even though they engender similar feelings some of the time. If you want a pocket of dough with which to pay for your hash browns, employment is certainly one way to get it.

I have no drum to beat for large corporations, and the remark upthread that capitalism leads to an unhealthy concentration of wealth is interesting, but debatable.

But as always I think it is REALLLY important to identify the real problem, the correct elements that cause a problem, if you don't want to end up spinning your wheels. Some folks think the decline of Western civilization is directly caused by drink, others by a lack of Godliness, others by a lack of mindfullness, and others by a failure to teach common sense and critical thinking.

Perhaps all of these are factors, as much as the capitalist process. But even if the ocre thread of economic disruption could be traced to the capitalist process, and I doubt that is true, the question has to be asked "What about the process is not working?" in particular, rather than just screaming like a demagogue about the evils of capitalism. If you cannot be specific about what you are talking about, your propositions are completely unassimilable and unactionable, and only serve to stir up generalized anger without moving toward remedy. What the hell good does that do?


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