Thread: Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more................

The fact that so many people believe this to be true is only a small reflection of the fact that there is a deep disillusionment and growing resentment with the free capitalist system as it existed until only a few months ago.

How can it be otherwise?

The very people who work their butts off to make companies work end up losing their jobs (witness the huge number of people in banks who have lost their jobs in the US and UK...) while those who took reckless decisions and took risks they did not understand themselves and allowed pure greed to inform and shape their daily agendas get paid millions in retirement funds and bonuses. It is as bizzare as it is unjust and to think that to date NOBODY has been criminally charged with any of this is just a small indication of how deep the rot is and how strong the bonds between the politicans and their financiers. I'm not naive: Life is not fair, nor is it just. But where injustice occurs and where unfairness is practised it should be nipped in the bud and addressed. The time has come to say out loud that the days when the "free" market held sway over the lives of millions are over. And so they should. The "free" market is neither free, nor is it able to regulate itself. It is a smokescreen in the name of which the rich ride the poor, on a systemic level.