Flippanarchy

I can't decide between a cancerous growth or a ball of wriggling intestinal parasites - I guess it'll have to be the former since this is insulting to intestinal parasites.

Rape.

It is rape, in every possible sense, in many different contexts or layers of complexity.

Coercive, forceful and subtle, manipulative and brash, extraction and destruction, that gaslights and lies and normalizes itself.

It never asks for consent, it either assumes it or demands it, and escaping it is often quite difficult and very risky to attempt.

But it rapes everything.

The land, the environment, people's bodies and minds and their time and their thoughts, language itself, etc.

The more technical details of how and why this metaphor is apt... the various aspects of complexities of different systems or aspects of subsystems... at the end of the day, the nature or character common to any specific instance of capitalism is that of a rapist.

Exploitation. Everything is built around exploitation. Of course capitalism is not the only exploitive system that exists, it's just the one most visible to us.

Exploitation of workers (and others) through means of private property rights that are enforced through state violence to the benefit of only a few.

A big ball that consumes all it touches, that will destroy the world if it can because that is part of its purpose.

It is disabling, and has conditioned people to accept it through its unlimited use of propaganda and wars in order to control the populace.

It takes and takes and gives little back.

It is against how things should be, and could be said to be unnatural.

It is about power and control over the populace, sadly few realise this because of said propaganda and because they believe nothing better could exist due to it limiting their imagination, time, energy and organising.

Hierarchy and exploitation.

For me capitalism is the rudimentary ideology that values capital/power above life.

Greed without personal responsibility.

There’s a looney toons episode t remember watching in the 80’s about a guy who makes a pair of boots and sells them for the material to make two, selling those to get more material, and keeps growing. Eventually he’s got a factory, a bunch of workers but he can never rest, never enjoy the fruits of his labor because capitalism demands perpetual growth. He dies wealthy but his soul died years before. I’m pretty sure my memory of this is somewhat twisted being that it was 40+ years ago, but that little guy repeatedly asking “now I get to relax?” And being told by the narrator “no” has always seemed so sad to me. Capitalism was painted as soul crushing even during the Cold War, and yet we still blindly go that route.

i think of it as the most basic and rudimentary economic system.

whenever a more advanced system fails or can't apply, people fall back to capitalism and start trading/hoarding tokens etc.

it's dangerous to let it run completely unchecked. usually societies will implement rules and taxes to make sure basic needs are met and there isn't too much exploitation going on.

In practice? Inequality. Increasing inequality until something cracks and there are riots, then laws change. Then increasing inequality, rinse and repeat.

In theory? Small entrepreneurial businesses generating value, the grassroots little shops everywhere. If it was working correctly, those would be very profitable and the money spread around better. Growth from the bottom not the discredited "trickle down" bullshit.

Death cult. You can't infinitely extract value from a finite system.

Thugs explaining that you owe them for protection and a interest on that too.

Also ayn rand slutty face with a whip and a cocktail

A positive feedback loop of wealth disparity.

Dumpster fire.

Easy target for life's problems.