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It's actually late stage capitalism that is at fault.

Line must always be going up, and if it doesn't go up as fast as someone thought it would then we make it go down.

If line goes sideways we sell and make it go down.

It must go up. Always up. Or it will go down.






You can’t blame the system and pretend none of that lands at the feet of people willingly engaging with it for their own benefit.

Has nobody heard of paying dividends? It is a perfectly acceptable way to have a company with stable profits. But no, anti-capitalism cliches combined with warmed-over rapture logic and Marx's idiotic teleological view of history.



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