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In reply to the discussion: A Scary Fact. [View all]gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... but I would recommend being a bit more circumspect in the use of dog-whistle terms like "Entitlements." It's used by the Republicans as an oblique way of suggesting that someone is getting something they don't deserve, which, like all the verbal vomit spewed by conservatives, is a bald-faced lie.
And you're dead on regarding capitalism and corporations, but there will be a skating rink in Hell before you will ever see a Higgs-Boson-sized particle of empathy or compassion exhibited by a corporatist. They are, without exception, textbook sociopaths, congenitally incapable of comprehending the concept of empathy, let alone showing it. Otherwise, they wouldn't be allowed in the club in the first place.
And they all think the Sun shines out of the bony dead ass of a third-rate hack novelist who called herself Ayn Rand. Alisa Rosenbaum (her real name) was evil incarnate, and would rant for hours about her hatred of altruism, an essential element of which is... empathy. I met the bitch, however briefly, in 1968. I was 21 and my employers were ardent admirers. Her talk focused on what vile parasites working people are. Take it from there.
In typical fashion, conservatives conflate capitalism and free enterprise. Capitalism is the prostitution of free enterprise. In free enterprise, you provide a product or service for which you are compensated in a manner commensurate with the quality of said product or service.
Capital is money. Capitalism is all about the accumulation and control of money, while expending as little as possible to acquire it. Just look at Wall Street, if your stomach can stand it.
Corporatism is the single most virulent cancer afflicting humanity, and if it isn't wiped off the face of the Earth soon, our extinction as a species is an engraved-in-stone certainty, along with nearly every other life form on this Blue Marble. The cockroaches will survive, and probably evolve into corporatists again. Sigh... the circle never ends.
Well. Have a nice day!