{"id":622,"date":"2018-02-08T14:16:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T14:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=622"},"modified":"2018-06-26T13:02:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T13:02:23","slug":"world-bullshit-turmoil-from-a-capitalists-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/08\/world-bullshit-turmoil-from-a-capitalists-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"World Bullshit Turmoil from a Capitalist&#8217;s  Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mXIuKC7PUDU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I will give this talk pretending that I am a capitalist.<\/p>\n<p>I am a capitalist. No, I am an entrepreneur.\u00a0\u00a0That sounds more innocuous. What does that mean? It means I have a business\u00a0which provides services and\/or I have a\u00a0factory which produces widgets. In both\u00a0\u00a0instances, I need wage-workers who will provide the services and the labor of\u00a0manufacture. Also I need a market &#8212; a place to sell my services and products.\u00a0 But the indispensable factor here is the workers. Where am I to get cheap workers?<br \/>\nWell, they are everywhere in abundance. They are, as it were, a reserve army of potential workers. They are people who without work are basically the homeless. You say that the homeless are only a small\u00a0minority. Well, yes, because once they become workers they stop being homeless.\u00a0But if they do not work, or are not involved in crime and dependency on others, they become homeless. The government &#8212; which, of course, works for me &#8212; has set up the laws in such a way that you are mostly either homeless or you work for someone like me. And as an entrepreneur,\u00a0\u00a0as a business person, that is how I want things to be.<\/p>\n<p>My fear is that this pool of the potentially homeless, that is the pool of potential workers (in short, as Marxists call them, the\u00a0proletariat) is somehow removed from me.\u00a0 How can this happen? The greatest danger is that the government falls into the hands\u00a0of those who will institute &#8212; God forbid &#8212; an agrarian reform. &#8220;Agrarian reform&#8221; is a\u00a0eulogistic term for giving away land to people for free. If people have access to free subsistence land, then it will be very difficult (or unprofitable) to hire them. This is the greatest possible evil that can occur\u00a0to someone like me, a capitalist. To\u00a0prevent this, I will muster all the forces of government to prevent this from occurring here or anywhere else in the world. My government must intervene in all places where there is any whisper of &#8220;agrarian\u00a0reform.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There was danger of this occurring in Ukraine in 1918 under the anarchist\u00a0Nestor Makhno, but miraculously the Bolsheviks prevented this from succeeding.\u00a0\u00a0Then another anarchist revolution occurred\u00a0in 1936 in Spain, but thank goodness Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin by backing Franco prevented this disaster. Then in 1954 in Guatemala, that no good\u00a0Arbenz tried to get the land back from the United Fruit Company. But our CIA under Allen Dulles orchestrated a coup, and put a\u00a0stop to this nonsense. Then there were those nasty Sandinistas in Nicaragua who\u00a0came to power in 1979. They too were full of &#8220;agrarian reform.&#8221; Well, my hero, President Reagan, though having to use\u00a0illegal and brutal clandestine methods, put a stop to this danger. Unfortunately,\u00a0the only place in our hemisphere where agrarian reform succeeded was Cuba. But\u00a0we quarantined this disease of Cuban agrarian reform through a series of\u00a0embargoes, which still exist. You say that\u00a0Cuba is a small place relative to the world. But you forget that such examples are contagious, giving rise to ideas of reform or even revolution.<\/p>\n<p>And of course we have to stop agrarian reform everywhere, directly as in Vietnam, we burned their villages and drove them into the cities where they had to look for work or remain homeless. We &#8212; I am\u00a0talking about us, the American businessmen &#8212; helped (indirectly) Indonesia to get rid of those useless villagers in East Timor.\u00a0\u00a0Imagine! These people tried to live independently of the market economy.\u00a0Good riddance!<\/p>\n<p>Talking of revolutions, all these velvet, orange and other multicolored so-called revolutions which have happened recently have simply replaced one president by another &#8212; something not unlike voting for a\u00a0new president. I, as a capitalist &#8212; I mean entrepreneur &#8212; am not bothered by this. It has little if any effect on my business enterprises. In fact, I am in favor of stirring up people into marches and protests. I like\u00a0all this hullabaloo about racism, immigration, police profiling, and especially all this attention and preoccupation with President\u00a0Trump &#8212; a Russian probe, pussy grabbing\u00a0and sexual harassment. I love it. I hope he\u00a0remains in office for all 4 years; even\u00a0better for 8. He is a capitalist&#8217;s &#8212; I mean America&#8217;s &#8212; godsend.\u00a0 Why do I like all\u00a0this? Because it distracts people from the root of capitalism &#8212; the fact that people do\u00a0not have access to free subsistence land.\u00a0\u00a0As long as there is no talk of agrarian\u00a0reform &#8212; quarrel away, and demonstrate all you will. I on the other hand will use the police and the military in such a way as to\u00a0pretend that I am terribly frightened by these outbreaks of violence, I am\u00a0 oh so frightened by Neo-Nazis and Muslim terrorists. Yes, I want to create some\u00a0violence in the expectation of people thinking that because the police are used\u00a0to quell this violence, that the protests are serious and dangerous for the government.\u00a0\u00a0Yes, that is what I want people to think.\u00a0\u00a0And it will keep them preoccupied with what to me is a distraction, as I rake in some more\u00a0\u00a0cash.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-828\" src=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/distraction2-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/distraction2-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/distraction2.jpg 587w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will give this talk pretending that I am a capitalist. I am a capitalist. No, I am an entrepreneur.\u00a0\u00a0That sounds more innocuous. What does that mean? It means I have a business\u00a0which provides services and\/or I have a\u00a0factory which produces widgets. In both\u00a0\u00a0instances, I need wage-workers who will provide the services and the labor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/08\/world-bullshit-turmoil-from-a-capitalists-perspective\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;World Bullshit Turmoil from a Capitalist&#8217;s  Perspective&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bullshit-institutions","category-economic-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}