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DeSwiss

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8. Scarcity is created to maintain the system.
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 07:43 PM
Jun 2014

As with any cancer, as it takes up space it deprives the organism that it is feeding off of, access to the nutrients that it is obtaining and even internally converting into useable proteins and hormones, in order to maintain its own health.

But cancers don't give a shit about their host's health. Only to the extent that it prevents them from feeding. And when one of us drops from their vampiric embrace, they get off our dried and empty husk, and onto another one to start the sucking all over again. Until once again there's nothing but a trail of husks left in their wake.

- This is Capitalism 101.

K&R

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I like what I am reading, but one thing leaps out at me - scarcity? truedelphi Jun 2014 #1
Our representatives do not represent us. SalviaBlue Jun 2014 #2
Bingo! Enthusiast Jun 2014 #15
Exactly! rickyhall Jun 2014 #6
Scarcity is created to maintain the system. DeSwiss Jun 2014 #8
+1! Enthusiast Jun 2014 #14
K&R for truth. nt Mnemosyne Jun 2014 #3
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This is an outstanding article. Uncle Joe Jun 2014 #10
True but.....We're a paradoxical society Armstead Jun 2014 #11
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Kicked and recommended! We have become an Ayn Rand nation. Enthusiast Jun 2014 #16
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