"In this millennium, wealth will no longer be of social import, morals will change, and we shall be able to rid ourselves of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exalted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the position of the highest virtues. We will be able to dare to assess the money motive at its true value.
The love of money as a possession - as distinguished from love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life - will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities, which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in MENTAL DISEASE."]
Perhaps posterity will derive a decisive advantage if honest folks today learn from a helpless U.S., a United States causing a world financial disaster while still forcing through feckless bailouts for already well-off capitalists who provoked the melt-down, and come to realize their misplaced faith in the tyrannical and homicidal leadership of the wealthy and powerful few over planet Earth and its billions in number human population.
Maybe this month's $700,000,000 tax-payer's rescue of Wall Street tycoons and similar moves around the capitalist governed world economy will rev-up motor's of indignation and awaken many millions to the amoral nature and immoral consequences of a now defunct overly sly system of capitalism, so out of place in the space age and age of instant communication.
As a kid, in the late 1930s and early 1940s, yours truly learned from overhearing comments and expletives in the street, in stores and even on the radio that a 'capitalist' was a dangerous, despicable, dishonorable, greedy out of control individual bent on deceptively tricking innocent people out of their money, possessions, homes and the fruit of their own labor.
In my high-school history books, the word capitalist never appeared to describe the fabulously wealthy and powerful 'captains of American industry', though the question, "Were they robber barons?" was put forward in college texts for discussion.
The wheel has come full circle. Capitalism recently beatified, today, by its own undoing stands before us defrocked, exposed and naked in shame and embarrassing confusion.
Capitalism, by definition marginalizing ethics and social well-being, presents itself as unreformable.
When asked, 'well, what could we replace capitalism with?' Answer, replace it with economics of fairness, honesty, ethical behavior and caring humanism!
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