Getting real sick of capitalism systematically consuming and destroying everything it touches.
These behaviours would be described as obsessive and pathological in any clinical setting, but when they're done for profit it's somehow normal.
These behaviours would be described as obsessive and pathological in any clinical setting, but when they're done for profit it's somehow normal.
Just like China does not have communism. They have too much free-market activity and private ownership for it to classify as such.
If you look at China and think "That's not communism", just be aware that they may also look at the west and think "That's not capitalism." Both are right. In fact both systems have converged.
China took the better aspects of communism and capitalism. We took some of the worst aspects of both... Except maybe free speech; but people are working hard on removing that one!
It makes sense; China came out of an era of extreme government control which has been reduced over time (compared to what it was before). In the west, government control has been on the way up and we can't even imagine how bad it can get.
Wage labor is then the perfect structure to ensure that most resistance from the bottom is suppressed before it can even really start. When you depend on the corporation to succeed for your subsistence (since there is no adequate social safety net to fall back on) taking a principled stance and refusing to destroy great works of literature becomes a highly costly endeavor for most people.