Reply #5: I worry about what the eventual outcome of this massive greed will be [View All]

[Sinti]

I can't imagine it being pretty. They continue to take more and more, while giving less and less. The guys who own the means of production (including to some extent regular stockholders), and their top managers are taking such a huge slice, people are eventually going to get hungry, even in those "Third-World," downtrodden countries they use for their labor force.

I used to think they could get away with paying so little, because the same goods we buy here were so much cheaper there. Not so, apparently where we buy a bottle of shampoo, they buy a squirt, and the big multinationals charge roughly the same price. It may be a little less, but not much.

This ruse of increasing scarcity, while the richest have much more than they ever did, has a limit. There are many more workers than there are "owners." I worry about a Java-style uprising.

Wouldn't it be beautiful if the workers could get together and just refuse to take their garbage anymore, and if the military enforcers of this hegemony put down their guns and said, F-U, we're not your security drones, we're not killing anymore people so you shove your brand of capitalism down their throats and make more money.