[ExI] Capitalism, anti capitalism, emotional arousal

[Samantha Atkins]

On Nov 11, 2011, at 10:33 AM, Giovanni Santostasi wrote:

> If you listen carefully the video "New Order-Wake up call" (that it is too much leaning towards conspiracy theorism to be taken seriously in its entirety) in it there is a gem:
> "these people have so much money that they don't care about money anymore, it is all about power".
> That is so true. This is why any talk about unfettered, enlightened  capitalism is non sense.
> It is not about how to achieve wealth or increase the standards of living of as many people as possible.
> Once some people have reached a level of wealth that is so much higher than everybody else the end game is gaining and playing with power.
> This why spreading wealth is not possible in any form of capitalism because its end game is for few people to gain unlimited power through hording resources in the fewest hand possible.
> Giovanni
> 
> 


If you want to see people that care about nothing but power then look at politicians, not business people and investors.  The billionaires and multi-millionaires I know are not in interested in power for power's sake but only as a means to make manifest the next thing they would love to see come into existence.     Generally I like their dreams a LOT better than those of most politicians who send goons with guns to take the money to continue trying to increase their own power and make the impossible possible. 

In a meritocracy or free market situation you can only amass a lot of money by producing things that a lot of people consider valuable enough to pay you for.  I think that is a hell of a lot cleaner than the political alternative.

- samantha

> 
> 2011/11/11 Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com>
> 2011/11/10 <natasha at natasha.cc>
> 
> My ideological position is as a designer.  I think about socio-economics and biopolitics as a design problem. My political leaning: "locate the problem, find the most effective way to resolve it, and get going."  This has to be done with an unbiased, logical methodology for seeing what is most workable, doable with the most amount of thought/knowledge and the least amount of waste.  It is a formula to resolve rather than to label. 
> 
> This is *exactly* my own view.
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