Occupy movement missing the point

[Swede]

This guy misses the point,but he also hits some.

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No doubt, they smell something rotten in the system. They sense a great injustice in the world and feel like they need to do something about it. Unfortunately, their actions are completely misguided.

They don’t realize that ‘capitalism’ is a distant myth compared to the kleptocratic Keynesian fiat bubble that we’re living in… and they’ve completely missed the driving force of central bankers and idiotic politics that encouraged bad decision making.

On the surface, these are complicated topics… and there’s so much populist propaganda out there, it’s easy for the ‘Occupiers’ to draw the wrong conclusions.

But blaming capitalism for the world’s economic ills is like blaming the guy who invented gunpowder for nuclear holocaust. Sure, you could make an argument that the two are loosely related, but the real blame lies with the system itself– a system which awards perverse power and control to an elite few.

http://www.sovereignman.com/

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. The problem is that capitalism has no ethics, no morality, only one ideology: make $ no matter what

And capitalism is promoted incessantly throughout the society with nothing to counteract it.

Occupy counteracts it. Occupy points out the wrongs within this amoral ideology. Occupy reflects how severely capitalism has damaged human beings and our entire country.

[CreekDog]

2. why are you posting something that mostly misses the point?

while not explaining which ones are valid?

are you being irresponsible?

[starroute]

3. And anyone who uses "Keynsian" as a curse word . . .

. . . and has "sovereign" in his website name has already lost all credibility.

[MindMover]

4. So the point of the article is that....

"blaming capitalism for the world’s economic ills is like blaming the guy who invented gunpowder for nuclear holocaust. Sure, you could make an argument that the two are loosely related, but the real blame lies with the system itself– a system which awards perverse power and control to an elite few."

Did anyone read about JCPennys CEO making 50 million in 2 months......and I could go on infinitum.....about existing immoral capitalistic values.....

The point is capitalism is a system which is destroying the fabric of hope that humanity can someday rise above pheasantry....it is not some nefarious system out there..... that is always the defense that someone uses when they do not want to take responsibility for there actions.....

[GopperStopper2680]

5. Capitalism is not the problem in and of itself.

The problem is not Capitalism. Capitalism with certain important checks and balances is what made us the country we are (or were if you believe as I do). But malignant capitalism absent important control structures is like a cell which becomes cancerous. It multiplies without the natural mechanism that would stop it from dividing eventually, swells many times its normal size, and becomes gluttonous for resources causing it to compete brutally with the healthy cells around it ending in carcinogensis and eventually usually, death of the organism. Unchecked capitalism is a cancer to our society.

[The Wizard]

6. Predatory capitalism

will destroy itself. That's why the system should be heavily regulated.

[Odin2005]

7. Liberturdian BS.