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Old 02-18-2015, 11:29 AM   #54 (permalink)
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i'm american and i think capitalism is bound to destroy the planet. this is why robots need to take over tbh
Robots I'm down with. Do all the work so I can play video games while getting blow jobs from robo-skanks.

But capitalism is just a necessary quasi-evil. Like I said about ground-level capitalism vs. multi-national corporations: one is great while the other is a danger to be monitored like a hawk. But corporations are still the only thing that makes a functioning economy possible (as opposed to bartering and pure communism). They may be turning the world into their own private ATM, and I can see a day in the far future when a person's affiliation to their all-powerful employer trumps trumps their loyalty to their country,and the Pepsi/Coke wars turning into armed conflicts, but it is what it is.

Countries are already arbitrary concepts based on arbitrary lines on a map, so is it really so odd to have your loyalty lie with the person who signs your checks and provides you with health and dental care? If I had a choice BTW, I'd be a citizen of the Marvel-DC Empire (They'd unite in order to make Justice League/Avengers crossovers and destroy the Confederacy of Independent Comic Publishers [which would be de facto ruled by Image].)
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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