Capitalism’s Pros and Cons

Those old enough to remember the movie “Wall Street” with its character Gordon Gecko, played by Michael Douglas, will recall the talk he gave to an audience of investors that begins, “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit.”
That said, capitalism promotes war, racism, poverty, environmental degradation, and inter-national hatred. One hundred years ago, this was ugly. Now, it’s a fast track to the unprecedented suffering of all life species on Earth, with humankind at the forefront.

As suggested at left, the confluence of Donald Trump and tens of millions of totally ignorant Americans is having horrific consequences for essentially everyone on this planet, but especially for the aforementioned tens of millions of totally ignorant Americans who will be soon living under even harsher and more degraded conditions than they were before.
Here’s an investment “opportunity” for people who don’t understand that:
If any significant number of religious people looked at this subject the way Mohammad Ali did, we wouldn’t have the vast oceans of hatred and cruelty that dominate the human race.
The United States federal government is reeling under some of the most vicious assaults in the entirety of its nearly-250-year history.
Until the last decade or so, Republicans were fairly reasonable people.
These guys have been raising capital since they were founded 12 years ago. Will investors ever see a dime in return? No.
This, of course, is completely irrelevant, since the power generated by a moving fluid is proportional to the cube of the velocity, and so low wind speeds produce almost zero power.
Trump and his team have vowed to attack journalists who will not fall in line with incoming president’s messaging.
A corollary to this quote from 20th Century author and poet
When MLK said this in the 1960s, he was probably referring to war, specifically nuclear war.