David Johnston asked:
> =D6rd=F6g <odbok...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >lorad...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
tells Usenet nothing new or unexpected:
> >> =D6rd=F6g <tz81qm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> > Capitalism is the rule of the few over the many. This has always
been=
> >> > so and always will be.
> >> You mix the concept of 'exploitation' with that of 'capitalism'...
> >Actually not.
> >When you regard the total sum of wealth a planet can provide for its
> >inhabitants you will realise that one can only get filthy rich at the
> >cost of others.
>
> You mean "customers"?
I mean the rest of the population, the lot. They might be primary
producers, they might be part of the distribution chain, they might be
manufacturing workers, they might be customers.
For example there are a great many Australian farmers who could sing a
bitter song about the activities of Woolworth and Coles.
I have a friend who lives in Tasmania and does casual jobs. Trimming a
whole apple tree earns him 40 cents. Considering the effort and the
conditions as well as the level of pay this is plain exploitation. And
one can't even be angry with the farmer since he earns little more
than that. Big capital (in this instance Woolworth) dictates the
prices and skims off the profits.
That is how capitalism works in the practice.
BTW this explains the inherent economic instability of the
contem****ary consumer capitalism. Once large sections of the community
are forced to live on peanuts the consumption is reduced to a degree
where big capital starts to suffer too. But sadly never to the degree
the little people do.
=D6rd=F6g (The friendly Hungarian Devil in service of aus.politics and
Usenet)
Either the neocons go or civilisation does!
