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In reply to the discussion: Fast-Food Workers Photograph What Life Is Like When You Make Less Than $15 an Hour [View all]hifiguy
(33,688 posts)The contradictions of capitalism described by Marx (and to some degree updated by Thomas Piketty) are what they are and their logic has no stopping point before self-immolation and complete societal meltdown.
The question is whether there is anything to do to stop if before it reaches the terminal stage, which is fast approaching.
I don't see how it can be done without a violent revolution, which needless to say has immense problems of its own. The oil companies, banksters/financiers and MIC run the country and probably 80% of the politicians at every level above the municipal, and will fight to the death, at least the death of the people, not themselves, to hold on to their dominance. Add an idiot, easily manipulated and propagandized populace and religulous insanity, which lead the sheeple to support their oppressors unthinkingly, and the picture is awfully grim.