Russell Brand — helping to wake people up. Who would have thought?
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Yup. Capitalism busts when greed and power lust are not controlled. Really, there are good points to every system, our social security is one example, if managed correctly it is good and helps at end of life but it is not managed correctly. Our corporations are not managed correctly either. Capitalism is not working just like socialism and communism, we just controlled the beast a little longer. I think the long buried 13th amendment would have helped, but that's the rub, laws are not enforced. I always thought that the Ben and Jerry's rule was a great start. All positions were bound together from the CEO down so that if one got a raise or financial bonus, all got one as well and there were set ratios to tie wages together. If the board wanted a cush raise, the whole company needed to be incuded. That went out the window when they were bougut out. I think another interesting idea is capping board payroll and compensation and putting the excess back into the company, or wages, or used as tax somehow, anything to strip the potential for powermad megalomaniacs to drag us to where we are now. There has to be limits in order to grow, take cancer as an example, unbridled cell growth overcomes all else until it kills you. I would say that globalism is the end result of unregulated capitalism and it leads to communism just the same as communism is the best control mechanism on a society wide basis. It seems capitalism is just the long road there. Wall of text, yeah I'll shut up now.