I just collated my pieces on our financial system, which are complete enough, even if they still lack serious treatments of Fannie Mae and the IMF.
My hope is that between sessions of humping, drum playing, public urination, and dooby passing someone will read this, print it, and bring it forward for public discussion. You have plenty of time on your hands.
Here it is: http://www.goodnessmovement.com/Page23.html
2 replies on “Treatise for Wall Street Protestors”
Your treatise starts off with an absolute fallacy. Capitalism, by no hilarious means whatsoever is "about making everyone rich." Capitalism is about granting the freedom to succeed or fail as one will with the skills, talents, assets, and acumen one has to make a go with. Failure is just as essential a part of Capitalism as rabid success. The ruthless laws of Darwinism in the marketplace insist on as much.
Please read the treatise.
In my view, if we can all survive well on 5 hours of work a week, success is not difficult. The way things should work should be like these tribes you read about in some jungles who can readily feed themselveds on only a few hours of work a week.
The rich do tend to get richer, but the most conspicuous of them do so only through a privileged place in the system, which is categorically ANTI-Capitalist.
No economic system in history has done a better job, even with the currrent flaws I have identified, of raising the living standard of all. Even our "losers" have access to more luxuries and more reliable sources of food and shelter than virtually all people in human history.