Tag Archives: capitalism

The Fire Of Rampant Consumerism

June 7, 2023 – 6:35 pm

In October 1973 an industrial neighborhood in Chelsea, Massachusetts was burned to the ground after a row of chemical storage warehouses burst into flames. The fire could be seen from fifteen miles away in the Blue Hills, but that conflagration was nothing in comparison to the last week’s toxic waste fire at Ruihai Logistics in […]

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Robo Fast Food

March 9, 2021 – 10:55 pm

The movement for increased wages for workers has evoked calls for increased robotics in manufacturing and service industries. A former McDonald’s CEO said before a shareholder meeting, “It’s cheaper to buy a $35,000 robotic arm than it is to hire an employee who’s inefficient, making $15 an hour bagging french fries.” Classic heartlessness from the […]

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We Will Bury You

December 9, 2012 – 7:13 pm

The skies are gray over New York. The global economy is in the shitter. I don’t have a job and I asked myself, “What is this world coming to?” I answer myself with the words of Nikita Khrushchev, “We will bury you.” The end of capitalism could happen, it sounds like the grave is already […]

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No More Cars

August 3, 2012 – 12:13 am

Gas prices in Thailand are running about 38 baht or $1.25 a liter. These prices are as expensive as the USA and sucking money out of people’s wallets faster than the cars can drive on the Asia Highway. There is no shortage of gas, but prices have been pushed up by oil speculators to reap […]

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0000 Dow Jones

October 13, 2008 – 3:34 pm

The Dow Jones approached my earlier prediction of 7500 on Friday. Today true believers in capitalism threw away their panic buttons and threw cash at the Stock market, pushing the DJ up over 9200. Many analysts attributed the optimism to the emergency meeting of the G-8, however my cousin Robbo, an investment banker, is offered […]

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