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 *Capitalism is how you enslave a man with his approval.*
 
-Capitali$m is the worst socioeconomic system we've yet seen in [history](history.md),^[source](logic.md) based on pure greed, [culture](culture.md) of [slavery](work.md) and artificially sustained conflict between everyone in society (so called [competition](competition.md)), abandoning all [morals](morality.md) and putting [money](money.md) and profit (so called [capital](capital.md)) above everything else including preservation of [life](life.md) itself, capitalism fuels the worst in [people](people.md) and forces them to compete and suffer for basic resources, even in a world where abundance of resources is already possible to be achieved -- of course, capitalism is a purely [rightist](left_right.md) idea. Capitalism goes against [progress](progress.md) (see e.g. [antivirus paradox](antivirus_paradox.md)), [good technology](lrs.md) and [freedom](freedom.md), it supports immense waste of resources, [wars](war.md), abuse of people and animals, destruction of environment, decline of morals, deterioration of [art](art.md), invention of [bullshit](bullshit.md) (bullshit jobs, bullshit laws, ...), utilization and perfection of torture methods, [brainwashing](brainwashing.md), [censorship](censorship.md) and so on. In a sense capitalism can be seen as **slavery 2.0** or *universal slavery*, a more sophisticated form of slavery, one which denies the label by calling itself the polar opposite, "freedom", when in fact capitalism is merely a "freedom" to oppress others -- underlying every argument for capitalism is an argument against freedom itself; capitalism manipulates people into them approving and voluntarily partaking in their own enslavement (capitalist slaves are called wage slaves or *wagies*) -- this new form of slavery which enslaves everyone evolved because the old form with strictly separated classes of slaves and masters was becoming unsustainable, with the enslaved majority revolting, causing civil wars etc. This alone already seems to many like a good reason for [suicide](suicide.md), however wage and [consumption](consumerism.md) slavery is still only a small part of capitalist [dystopia](dystopia.md) -- capitalism brings on destruction basically to every part of civilization. It it also often likened to a **[cancer](cancer.md) of society**; one that is ever expanding, destroying everything with commercialism, materialism, waste and destruction, growing uncontrollably with the sole goal of just never stopping an ever accelerating growth. Nevertheless, it's been truthfully stated that "it is now easier to imagine the end of all life than any substantial change in capitalism." Capitalism will be there long after humans are gone. Another famous quote is that "capitalism is the belief that the worst of men driven by the nastiest motives will somehow work for the benefit of everyone", which describes its principles quite well.
+Capitali$m is the worst socioeconomic system we've yet seen in [history](history.md),^[source](logic.md) based on pure greed, [culture](culture.md) of [slavery](work.md) and artificially sustained conflict between everyone in society (so called [competition](competition.md)), abandoning all [morals](morality.md) and putting [money](money.md) and profit (so called [capital](capital.md)) above everything else including preservation of [life](life.md) itself, capitalism fuels the worst in [people](people.md) and forces them to compete and suffer for basic resources, even in a world where abundance of resources is already possible to be achieved -- of course, capitalism is a purely [rightist](left_right.md) idea. Capitalism goes against [progress](progress.md) (see e.g. [antivirus paradox](antivirus_paradox.md)), [good technology](lrs.md) and [freedom](freedom.md), it supports immense waste of resources, [wars](war.md), abuse of people and animals, destruction of environment, decline of morals, deterioration of [art](art.md), invention of [bullshit](bullshit.md) (bullshit jobs, bullshit laws, ...), utilization and perfection of torture methods, [brainwashing](brainwashing.md), [censorship](censorship.md) and so on. In a sense capitalism can be seen as **slavery 2.0** or *universal slavery*, a more sophisticated form of slavery, one which denies the label by calling itself the polar opposite, "freedom", when in fact capitalism is merely a "freedom" to oppress others -- underlying every argument for capitalism is an argument against freedom itself; capitalism manipulates people into them approving and voluntarily partaking in their own enslavement (capitalist slaves are called wage slaves or *wagies*) -- this new form of slavery which enslaves everyone evolved because the old form with strictly separated classes of slaves and masters was becoming unsustainable, with the enslaved majority revolting, causing civil wars etc. This alone already seems to many like a good reason for [suicide](suicide.md), however wage and [consumption](consumerism.md) slavery is still only a small part of capitalist [dystopia](dystopia.md) -- capitalism brings on destruction basically to every part of civilization. It it also often likened to a **[cancer](cancer.md) of society**; one that is ever expanding, destroying everything with commercialism, materialism, waste and destruction, growing uncontrollably with the sole goal of just never stopping an ever accelerating growth. Nevertheless, it's been truthfully stated that "it is now easier to imagine the end of all life than any substantial change in capitalism." Capitalism will be there long after humans are gone. Another famous quote is that "capitalism is the belief that the worst of men driven by the nastiest motives will somehow work for the benefit of everyone", indeed a truthful statement.
 
 { Some web bashing capitalism I just found: http://digdeeper.club/articles/capitalismcancer.xhtml, read only briefly, seems to contain some nice gems capturing the rape of people. ~drummyfish }
 
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 *Capitalism on utopia-dystopia spectrum: while a [good society](less_retarded_society.md) tries to come as close as possible to the ideal utopia, capitalism starts with the idea of a dystopia (conflicts, exploitation, suffering as motivation, ...) and tries to just make it barely livable, always staying just shy of dystopia so bad it couldn't practically work (e.g. putting too much pressure on workers so as to kill them all).*
 
-**Who invented capitalism?** Well, it largely developed on its own, society is just responsible for not stopping it. Capitalism as seen today has predominantly evolved from the tradition of small [trade](trade.md), [slavery](work.md), markets, [competition](competition.md), [evil](evil.md), [war](war.md) and abuse due to societal hierarchy (e.g. peasants by noblemen, poor by rich etc.), combined with technological progress of [industrial revolution](industrial_revolution.md) (18th. - 19th century) which allowed mass production and mass abuse of workers, as well as the information revolution (20th - 21th century) which allowed mass surveillance, unlimited [corporate](corporation.md) control, acceleration of bullshit business and extreme mass [brainwashing](marketing.md), reaching [capitalist singularity](capitalist_singularity.md). [Adam Smith](adam_smith.md) (18th century), a mentally retarded egoist with some extra chromosomes who tried to normalize and promote self-interest and torture of others for self-benefit,  is often called the **"father of capitalism"** (which is about the same honor as being called the [father of holocaust](hitler.md)), although he didn't really invent capitalism, he merely supported its spread (saying he invented capitalism would be like saying [Hitler](hitler.md) invented killing) -- by the same spirit this man is to be also largely credited for the future extermination of all [life](life.md).
+**Who invented capitalism?** Well, it largely developed on its own, society is just responsible for not having stopped it. Capitalism as seen today has predominantly evolved from the tradition of small [trade](trade.md), [slavery](work.md), markets, [competition](competition.md), [evil](evil.md), [war](war.md) and abuse due to societal hierarchy (e.g. peasants ruled by noblemen, poor by rich etc.), combined with [technological](technology.md) [progress](progress.md) (or more correctly "degradation") of [industrial revolution](industrial_revolution.md) (18th. - 19th century) which allowed mass production and mass abuse of workers, as well as the information revolution (20th - 21th century) which allowed mass surveillance, unlimited [corporate](corporation.md) control, acceleration of bullshit business and extreme mass [brainwashing](marketing.md), reaching [capitalist singularity](capitalist_singularity.md). [Adam Smith](adam_smith.md) (18th century), a mentally retarded egoist with some extra chromosomes who tried to normalize and promote self-interest and torture of others for self-benefit,  is often called the **"father of capitalism"** (which is about the same honor as being called the [father of holocaust](hitler.md)), although he didn't really invent capitalism, he merely supported its spread (saying he invented capitalism would be like saying [Hitler](hitler.md) invented killing) -- by the same spirit this man is to be also largely credited for the future extermination of all [life](life.md).
 
 { My brother who's into movies shared with me a nice example of how capitalism ruined the art of movie dubbing (which my country has a big tradition in) -- it's just one example which however reflects many other areas that got ruined and shows why we just see this huge decline of all art and craft. Back in the day (here during a non-capitalist regime) movie dubbing was done like a play, dubbing was performed scene by scene, all actors were present, they all watched the scene together, then rehersed it several times and then dubbed it together (on a single microphone); if the result wasn't satisfactory, they tried another take until they were happy. The voice actors got time, creative freedom and were interacting together -- movie dubbing from these times are excellent works of art that sometimes even elevate the original works higher. Nowadays dubbing is done by each actor separately (no interaction between actors), each one scheduled at different time, they work without rehearsal, on first take, the translation is done on tight schedule by the cheapest translator the company finds (usually some student who's doing it as a side job at nights, soon this will probably just be done by AI), the actors are tired as hell as they have to voice many movies in a single day, they are pushed to work quickly and produce as much material as possible and to keep it safe so as to not have to risk additional takes (time loss = money loss), i.e. artistic freedom completely disappears. As different performances are recorded separately, the equipment is also more expensive (there has to be minimum noise as many records will be added together, which will amplify noise, and also someone has to do the mixing etc.). So not only are these dubbing complete and absolute soulless sterile shit without any true emotion and with laughable translation errors, they are also more expensive to make. Capitalism killed the art, humiliated it and in addition made us pay more for it. ~drummyfish }
 
-If we continue along the lines of the valid analogy between capitalism and [cancer](cancer.md), we notice that in the past our society used to have a kind of autoimmunity system against this cancer -- people themselves. In human body cancerous cells appear quite regularly, but the immunity system is able to kill those cells before they start growing uncontrollably, as has been happening in our society. In the past we used to have this kind of immunity too, it was the people themselves who would revolt whenever capitalist pressure became too bad -- this has amounted for a great deal of revolutions in history. The capitalism of today however already represent a malignant tumor as we're most likely beyong [capitalist singularity](capitalist_singularity.md), i.e. our society has a tumor we failed to remove at an early stage (we instead decided to feed it), it got out of hand and it can no longer be fixed now, the defensive mechanism such as revolutions are already prevented by capitalism itself, all communication between people is completely controlled, thinking of people is under control too and even if people by a miracle decided to revolt, today's military is so powerful they can't even hope to stand a chance.
+Proceeding with the valid analogy between capitalism and [cancer](cancer.md), we find that in the past our society used to have a kind of autoimmunity system against this cancer -- people themselves. In human body cancerous cells appear quite regularly, but the immunity system is able to kill the cells before they start to grow uncontrollably, as has been happening in our society. In the past we used to posses this kind of immunity too, it was the people themselves who would amass and revolt whenever capitalist pressure went too far -- this has amounted for a great deal of revolutions in history. The capitalism of today however already represents a malignant tumor as we're most likely beyond the point of [capitalist singularity](capitalist_singularity.md), i.e. society with a tumor that was failed to be removed at an early stage (we instead decided to feed it), the matter got out of hand and can no longer be fixed now, the defensive mechanism such as revolutions are already prevented by capitalism itself, all communication is completely controlled and any revolutionary spark smothered on the spot, thinking of people is under control too, manipulated at will of corporations and even if a crowd by a small miracle did indeed revolt, today's military and police force is so powerful that none can hope to stand a chance.
 
 **In capitalism only [idiots](npc.md) survive** because idots are those who capitalism can exploit and therefore those it protects (so that it can keep abusing them and making them miserable). Idiots are the conformists, those who accept lifelong slavery and misery, take loans, consume and don't cause trouble -- for that they are allowed to have kids, get healthcare, food etc. The smart do not survive in capitalism as those are not wanted.
 
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 { There is a famous 1988 movie called *They Live* which, while being a funny alines'n'stuff B movie, actually deeply analyzes and criticizes capitalism and for its accurate predictions of the future we now live in became a cult classic. It's been famously said that *They Live* is rather a documentary. I highly recommend giving it a watch. Also the 1985 movie Brazil is excellent. ~drummyfish }
 
-Capitalists themselves are soulless, empty shells incapable of true human emotion, the lowest subhuman scum, a pinnacle of evolutionary degeneracy, born to only seek pleasure for themselves while masking it as "doing good", they're masters of pretense, manipulation and lie, they lack capability to think about anything else than how to get more and more self pleasure and this constant thinking about this single goal makes them in fact perfect it, they're dangerous by possessing human level of reasoning and looking like humans while lacking any human feelings except for endless greed. Capitalist's aim is only to manipulate and abuse others and so his goal will always be that people find no peace, no comfort, no rest, he has to ensure people are constantly bothered by something and pushed, forced to be caught in his nets. In a world where capitalism persists it is impossible to ever achieve peace and comfort.
+Capitalists themselves are soulless, empty shells incapable of truthful human emotion, the lowest subhuman scum, a pinnacle of evolutionary degeneracy, born only to seek own pleasure while even having the audacity to call it "doing good", they're masters of pretense and stupidity, manipulation and lie, and lack capability to think about anything but how to best reach yet more and more pleasure, luxury and overeating, and this constant preoccupation with this single primitive goal makes them in fact perfect it and pursue it for any price, they're dangerous by possessing human level of reasoning and looking like humans while lacking any human feelings except for endless greed. Capitalist's aim is only to manipulate, exploit and abuse and so his goal will always be that people find no peace, no comfort or rest, he has to ensure people are constantly bothered by something and pushed, forced to be caught in his nets. In a world where capitalism persists it is impossible to ever achieve calm and peaceful society.
 
 ## Attributes Of Capitalism
 
 The following is a list of just SOME attributes of capitalism -- note that not all of them are present in initial stages but capitalism will always converge towards them.
 
-- **[slavery](slavery.md), oppression, loss of [freedom](freedom.md)**: In capitalism people are slaves firstly as workers -- in work time, so called [wage slavery](wage_slavery.md) -- and secondly as consumers -- in "free" time. Banks create inflation to devalue money people save so that they have to work constantly for their whole lives as products are getting progressively more expensive. More and more essentially unnecessary spending purchases are forced on people -- new smartphone every year, mortgages, gas and maintenance of cars, new clothes according to fashion, insurance etc. Practically no one has a truly free time anymore.
+- **[slavery](slavery.md), oppression, loss of [freedom](freedom.md)**: People unlucky to be living in capitalism suffer twofold slavery. Firstly as workers -- in work time, so called [wage slavery](wage_slavery.md) -- and secondly as consumers -- in their "free" time. Banks create inflation to devalue money people save so that they have to work constantly for their whole lives as products are getting progressively more expensive. More and more essentially unnecessary spending purchases are forced on people -- new smartphone every year, mortgages, gas and maintenance of cars, new clothes according to fashion, insurance etc. Practically no one has a truly free time anymore.
 - **extreme waste**: Bullshit products, [bullshit jobs](bullshit_job.md) and the need for constant dynamics of the market force to waste energy, material and human work just to keeping everything in motion, even if purely arbitrarily. Corporations keep reinventing and reselling slightly modified version of already existing products, one group of people is creating something while another group is destroying it, just to keep everyone occupied. Byproduct physical waste such as plastics and chemicals are dumped in the environment and pollute it for decades, even centuries to come. At the moment we are already drowning in physical waste, we just export it to third world and hope they will have infinite space to store more.
 - **[antivirus paradox](antivirus_paradox.md)**: Sustaining and artificially creating undesirable phenomena so as to build a business in [fighting](fight.md) it, to keep and create jobs ("firefighters starting fires").
   - **[artificial scarcity](artificial_scarcity.md)**: In order to be able to sell something, that something has to be scarce, an abundant resource such as air cannot be sold. Once technology emerges to make some resource abundant, it threatens those who have a business in selling that resource. This creates the huge interest in keeping resources scarce, sometimes by force. Corporations are known to routinely destroy food that can still be eaten, and other goods as well. Corporations indirectly conspire on keeping resources scarce by artificial obsolescence, outlawing old products as "unsafe", using [copyright](copyright.md) to prevent people from recycling old intellectual works etc.
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   - **[bullshit jobs](bullshit_job.md), invention of bullshit products/needs**: As automatization takes people's jobs, people try to keep jobs by creating artificial bullshit, e.g. "lack of women in tech" leads to creation of "diversity departments", politicians try to *create more jobs* by increasing bureaucracy etc. This is of course in direct conflict with the base goal of civilization itself of eliminating the need for human work. One online company even successfully sold literal excrement (which had no actual use, it was just marketed as "funny and cool").
   - **preventing progress, sustaining status quo**: Capitalism is extremely hostile towards social progress (more leisure time, more social security, ...), i.e. the main kind of progress (all progress should eventually serve well being of people, otherwise it's just artificial self-serving burden). It is also, contrary to popular belief, against technological progress -- the established corporations want to perpetuate their established businesses and will attack and destroy new ideas that endanger it (i.e. electric cars vs fuel powered cars, food corporations vs the solution of world hunger etc.). Capitalism prevents realization of any idea that's physically possible but which is **economically impossible**, ruling out e.g. many solutions to global heating etc. { In Trash Magic manifesto the author, a professional scientist, also shares his view that capitalism prevents innovation. ~drummyfish }
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-- **[fascism](fascism.md)**: Capitalism is based on fascism, i.e. extreme hierarchy and "tribes" of which each fights to death for its own self interest. This fight happens between companies themselves, between state and companies, different departments inside companies, between workers and employers, between brands on the market etc. Capitalism is a constant war against everyone else -- not even jungle has this much conflict.
-- **no long term planning, irresponsibility**: Companies need to make immediate profit, managers hired to new positions are expected to immediately increase profits and they don't come to stay for long, they have no responsibility, so they simply do whatever it takes to create immediate profit without considering any long term consequence such as pollution etc.
-- **extreme lowering of quality of products, deterioration of [art](art.md)**: Despite capitalist propaganda, capitalism doesn't lead to increased quality of products -- on the contrary it seeks to find the MINIMUM quality that will be accepted by the consumer. In seeking to minimize manufacturing cost of a single unit, companies save money wherever they can and rather invest in marketing etc. -- for example instead of paying several experts to produce a good, well fact-checked documentary, only one man will be paid to create the documentary with the focus on it being "fun and engaging" rather than factually correct. Art is hasted, scheduled, produced on short deadlines, littered with product placement etc.
+- **[fascism](fascism.md)**: Capitalism is based on fascism, i.e. extreme hierarchy and culture of "tribes" of which each fights to death for its own self interest. This fight happens between companies themselves, between state and companies, different departments inside companies, between workers and employers, between brands on the market, people seeking jobs etc. Capitalism is a [constant war](fight_culture.md) against everyone at all times -- not even in jungle we see this much conflict. Can it really be called a success to establish society in which war and hostility is the main underlying mechanisms present in all aspects of life? Is it really so surprising that so many rather [voluntary choose death](suicide.md)?
+- **no long term planning, irresponsibility**: Companies necessitate immediate profit, managers hired to new positions are expected to immediately increase profits and they don't come to stay for long, they have no responsibility, so they simply do whatever it takes to create immediate profit without considering any long term consequence such as pollution etc.
+- **degradation of product quality, deterioration of [art](art.md)**: In spite of capitalist propaganda and fairy tales, capitalism doesn't lead to increased quality of products -- on the contrary it seeks to find the MINIMUM quality acceptable by the consumer, who will eventually, due to alliances of corporations that establish there be no alternative, have to accept anything. In seeking to minimize manufacturing cost of a single unit, companies save money wherever they can and rather invest in [marketing](marketing.md) etc. -- for example instead of paying several experts to produce a good, well fact-checked documentary, which in terms of pure profit would yield only diminishing returns, only a single man will be hired to create the documentary with the focus on it being "fun and engaging" rather than factually correct. Art is hasted, scheduled, produced on short deadlines, littered with product placement etc.
 - **[plutocracy](plutocracy.md), i.e. loss of (true) [democracy](democracy.md)**: In capitalism only illusion of democracy is sustained, there is no rule of the people, there is rule of the rich THROUGH people, as the rich are those who make the laws and actually take the ruling positions and who have a tremendous power to manipulate masses via private media. State is becoming more and more the tool of corporations rather than a protection against them. [USA](usa.md), the worst case of capitalism, is infamous for having no voting freedom, there exists just a laughable choice of two parties which are exactly the same.
 - **[monopolies](monopoly.md) with unlimited power, degeneration of competition**: The naive ideas of capitalists that markets will magically regulate themselves quickly falls apart, basically no one even tries to believe it anymore. In a competitive market monopolies arise in a short time who will prevent any competition from even arising. Can a tiny starting company compete with an established corporations with billions of dollars and thousand lawyers? No. The corporation can defeat them by gigantic marketing, unfair practices (unfair prices etc.) despite fines, by simply buying them, legal trolling, media trolling (negative internet reviews, ...), even physical attacks if necessary (just anonymously pay a bunch of hackers to DDOS competition's servers etc.). Once a monopoly without competition exists, the few advantages of competition disappear completely. A corporation doesn't respond to demand, it creates the demand. It can do whatever it likes, it can set arbitrarily high prices, create arbitrarily shitty products and so on, no competition is pressuring it to do otherwise, people have no choice than to subvert.
 - **[poverty](poverty.md)**: Despite capitalist propaganda, not everyone can be successful in capitalism (if everyone could retire at 20, why doesn't everyone just do it?), and it is a fact that because [money makes money](money_makes_money.md), the gap between the poor and the rich is becoming wider and wider (as of 2020, 8 richest people owned as much wealth as the whole poorer half of the population). Poor people are pushed into loans, getting into debts, trapping themselves, working multiple jobs, while their health deteriorates increasing their debt on medical bills, decreasing their ability to work more etc.