<<The point is that a job in Amazon's warehouse is considered by many to be a good job these days. Thus illustrating how low the bar has gotten in America. Yes we are not to 3rd world job/wages yet for the masses, but we are heading in that direction.>> This is why unfettered CORPORATISM(i just made up word to more specifically define "unfettered capitalism", if one sees my point)-- i restart:) This is why unfettered corporatismabsolute need for corporate profit/revenue growth to keep its stock perpetually inflated, to keep the say 5% happy
will lead to lower and lower wages relative to a small percentage of the whole.
i repost this response i made to Scatter-Shot
But where i would now use Unfettered Corporatism for unfettered capitalism; because we have now become a world ruled by greed greed big big bigger Corporations(They are what Wilson calls Super Colony Ants , where growth addiction guarantees DESTRUCTION: this a heavy duty prophecy because it has TEETH, and is not toothless dreaming. But all good prophecy is built on analytical genius, and E.O.Wilson is one of the major Geniuses of the past 100 years. When i first read Wilson's dissertation on Super Colony Ants and how he applied it to OUR FUTURE my mind went BINGO!!!--VBG:) E.O.Wilson, in his 80s just wrote this 2 years ago! He basically soummed up, change or perish, but in a very civil and intellectual manner he wrote this---it was actually rather polite.
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<<Capitalism has nice traits, but it also has a built-in self-destruction mechanism: the demand for never ending growth. And that wouldn't be so bad, if that mechanism didn't also spell destruction for much of the planet is has been unleashed on.>>
E.O.Wilson:(the world's greatest expert on Ants now or ever, and likely ever will be In his 80s wrote a book in which he compares man to the genetically flawed ants called "Super Colony Ants") The flaw in ants with the "Super Colony" gene all end up in utter collapse and destruction. What Wilson has proven, in vast research, ants have checks and balances on growth, it has been demonstrated as an algorithms, and ensures they keep they don't get too big or too small. But in studying "Super Colony" ants(there variety varies) he s found the fatal/lethal flaw/ they are programmed for growth ONLY, and INVARIABLY they grow themselves upwards into collapse/chaos /destruction(The old and great Tower of Babel metaphor). He then, i believe correctly, deduces that the human species has now the same flaw, and unless they , with intellect, counter it. The Human Race is DOOMED to its own destruction.
But i state , because of the inherent rapacious nature of TPTB, man is doomed.
"The built in self destruction" within Capitalism, is fully developed and and rules, destruction is the ONLY possibilty.
Two, on my own behalf, i did write that the death of totalitarian sovietism, was but a forerunner of the death of society overall, via unfettered Grownth Obsessed Capitalism.
i have seen via your source, Scatter Shot and E.O.Wilson elucidations, confirmation of our future i wrote in 1992---so am satisfied
intellectually to see my own beliefs coming true---but i take no satisfaction in the tragedy it spells.
Max G Love and Rockets "Ball of Confusion"(Cover of Temptations 1971 song)
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