MK Karnak on Sat, 5 Feb 2011 10:05:23 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> If you want to solve the real problems---unlearn the baloney |
Dear Keith and EVERYBODY within my writing's reach, Globalization and FREE MARKETS will do absolutely NOTHING for poor people. Why the intelligent people of this world cannot see that this stuff was sold to them, I will never know. Do you all realize that MARX was all in favor of free markets? Do you know why? Not because he believed that free market philosophy would produce any kind of benefit for the workers or the poor BUT BECAUSE HE KNEW FOR AN ABSOLUTE FACT THAT FREE MARKETS WERE THE QUICKEST WAYS TO PRODUCE SUCH ==========>>>>>>>>BROADSCALE POVERTY AND MISERY<<<<<<<<<<=========== that workers would be bound to rebel. It is clear to me that people around the world have lost the ability for critical thinking. It is equally clear that many of the people RUNNING the various countries of the western world have been thoroughly coopted. All of you need to stop worshipping the market. It does not work the way that economists want you to believe. Actually, they know that Ricardo's theories (the Brazilian father of what passes for free trade THEORY) were intended for AGRARIAN economies with little cross boundary movement of capital and a variety of other conditions that simply don't exist right now. Why why do you all sit there quoting stuff from the economist about a THEORY (the free market) that has yet to prove out positively for the average person? Free market policies, LISTEN CAREFULLY, have been tried time and time again...at least 3 times in the 20th Century with the same abyssmal results of too much wealth concentrated in too few hands, real wage stagnation for the people who aren't banksters or bankster affiliated and poverty or near poverty for everybody else. HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO TRY THE SAME THEORETICAL CRAP before we can accept that the test of the hypothesis proved that it is INCORRECT? Free markets do not result in a better distribution of goods, more efficiencies or more prosperity. They result in any one that is not a banker or in financial fields being miserable. PERIOD. Look at the USA's history. The smaller the government, the more that the markets were protected through tariffs (EXCEPT inside the colonies) , the more prosperous the people became. The more "free-market" and liberal trade policies are, the more weapons and defense structures have to be built to protect trade and the more miserable that the people are. If you don't believe me, go do some research on tariffs, taxation and the people's situation. This man from Peru has a point. Their situation is NOT BETTER NOW. I was in Peru before the free trade pacts and they had too much wealth concentrated in too few hands domestically. This created a big gulf between the well-to-do and the poor, but most people had food, clothing and shelter. The people living in the streets were mostly people from the mountains who left after the haciendas were liberated. They left because they had forgotten how to function as independent farmers. Now, you have more broadscale poverty in Peru because their money is leaving the country and going to banksters outside the countries. The countries that DID not sign "free trade" pacts with the US have actually been raising their people's living standards. You all need to read that Economic Hitman book again as well as gaining more information on economics that doesn't come from the idiots that worship Ayn Rand...BTW, do you realize that Ayn Rand was a textbook sociopath? That's right. The woman worshipped by Alan Greenspan and the nuts in the Tea Party is a SOCIOPATH. She modelled her HEROES after a serial killer of the 1920s named William Hickman that she was infatuated with. Her economic ideas came from the Rothschild that she was sleeping with. Wake up people. MK # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org