Capitalism and capitalists rarely surprise…. They really do take alienation to the extreme. Who needs the sagacity of Karl Marx, when Adam Smith said, capitalism’s division of labour turns workers ‘stupid’ and ‘ignorant’ – apparently into captivity and even death on the job. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple…
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Predictions of US collapse are premature and misdirected
I have been writing about the decline of the USA and related issue for a few years, now, without resorting schadenfreude or dancing on the grave of that country. (See here, here and here) That would be silly. My approach has not been “anti-American”. It has always had to do with at least two things, both of which are…