UPDATE: Stocks tank as another recession warning surfaces

[yaesu]

29. Contact with Martians destroying capitalism in just a few days

watching a B movie this morning, in the background while doing other things and it did a good job pointing out how fragile, how corrosive a world dominated by capitalism is. The 1952 movie, Red Planet Mars, is about an American scientist who makes contact with Martians, Government gets involved, communications established. We find out Martians live to over 300 earth years, our insurance annuity markets collapse, we find out they can feed 1000 Martians on one acre of produce, our farming sector collapses, they don't use oil, coal, only solar and those industries collapse, steel industry collapses from lack of coal, followed by banks, ect... Martial Law, riots, ect...

The story line sidetracked after that into the cold war, religion but it struck me how perfectly it showed what a fragile system we live under. The power elite went nuts, money becoming virtually worthless, amazing. It was pretty forward thinking for the day.