Controversial Political Opinions

[JasonBlack]

(07-14-2022, 05:01 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Much of the self-indulgence in our society depends upon people being poor despite all their efforts. Retail, food service, and amusements need ultra-cheap labor if they are to be affordable to mass clienteles. We have our pariahs from outright criminals to people disabled by industrial accidents or injuries in military service. OK, it's impossible to make heroes out of overt criminals. 

Violent psychopaths are extremely dangerous, and some of them are quite good at hiding what they really are, as was the case with BTK, Ted Bundy, John Gacy, and the Green River Killer. Pedophiles exploit the trust of children only to betray that trust with pain and shame that fits only criminals. 

Our economic order seems predicated upon the idea that thousands must suffer on behalf of one plutocrat or executive because such is necessary for prosperity. People doing great harm can pretend that they are benefactors that they exploit. The attitude of the slave-master that he was the best thing to every happen to 'his Negroes' has morphed into a similar rationale for people who exercise great pretentions to charity while acting with economic and administrative sadism.

I think it's more simple than that: our economic order is predicated on the idea that using money to influence politics is "free speech".