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by nekusar 3 hours ago
You can complain (read: peaceful protest for redress of grievances) without going whole hog the complete opposite way.

Most of this end-stage crapitalism was warned by Adam Smith, and then by Marx.

And what did economists do? Fucking ignore it. Or named it trickle down.

So, yeah. When the capitalists control the government, you get all the abuses written about it for the last 300 years. And it fucking shows.

Computation and copyright was just dropping helicopter loads of gasoline on the already terrible fire.