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In reply to the discussion: We are seeing the end game of a 40+ year project.. [View all]Warpy
(114,616 posts)which Marx & Engels pointed out and those old Soviet economists expanded on. They were wrong only about the stime scale. Sometimes it runs more efficiently than others to deprive people of their share of the economic pie, the grabbers wanting to take it all, so the timeline between reform and collapse dan take decades or, once in a great while, centuries. The latter has occurred more with city states and an ever expanding empire, which is its own animal, but the process is the same. It was also dismally similar in the worker's paradise of the USSR, the grabbers turning to outright theft instead of merely wage theft to make themselves rich. And rich they got.
I've never been too polite to point out to people what was happening to them and why and they were never too polite to ignore me.
I'm beginning to think stopping this prices is like trying to hold back the tide with a teaspoon. It's frustrating and will not work.
I do know the crash that's shaping up is going to take nearly everything with it. The grabbers haven't left much behind.