At the very least Capitalism is a moral disease. Any belief system that says the ability for the invisible hand of commerce to roam free and exploit people, goods, and the environment for the sake of making profit is a belief system that is fundamentally corrupt. The right to make profit is not a transcendent moral right, nor is it one that should supersede basic human dignity.
Money in of itself isn’t bad, but when we as a society place profit above people our judgment and morality becomes entirely corrupted. It’s the sort of rot that destroys something from within, and its taint is not easily washed away. We live in times where politicians clamor for the destruction of any and all social nets and at the same time claim that a corporation is a person. When such horribly skewed ideas are considered normal and treated with respect, clearly there is something wrong with the belief structure of our society.
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