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The Dismal and Hopeful Future<\/a><\/h3>\n

One doesn\u2019t have to be a brilliant social analyst to see that the contemporary world order is doomed, destined to start visibly crumbling within the next decade or two at the latest. The neoliberal system, in fact the corporate capitalist system, is radically unsustainable. It is too unstable, too universally rapacious, too humanly exploitative and environmentally destructive, too demoniacally self-consuming\u2013for capitalism can profit\u00a0from its self-immolation<\/a>!\u2013to last much longer.<\/p>\n

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Is it even necessary anymore to argue for these claims?<\/p>\n

Capitalism means self-sabotage. Its profit-making interest lies in paying wage-earners as little as possible, and ideally in mechanizing and automating them out of existence, for they\u2019re expensive and troublesome with their demands for \u201crights\u201d and other such nonsense. On the other hand, capitalism needs markets; it needs entities to sell things to, for that\u2019s how it makes profit. Any sort of entity would serve its purposes\u2013alien creatures, super-advanced machines, genetically enhanced chimpanzees, whatever\u2013but, tragically, capitalism has so far been forced to do business with the very beings it exploits and wants to deny income to: humans!<\/p>\n

Cruel irony! The mass of mankind, against which capitalism wars in the sphere of production, it has to make nice to in the sphere of consumption, to blandish and cajole into buying commodities. This fusion of consumer and producer in the same being is the tragic contradiction that torments capitalism and drives it to manic-depression\u2013exuberance followed by depression followed by exuberance. The capitalist elite revels in Romanesque orgies as it squeezes money out of the sweat and blood of the workers, but the party ends once markets have, as a result, so shrunk\u2013or the worm of doubt has so grown in the minds of investors\u2013that investment is cut back to the point of ending growth.<\/p>\n

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The Dismal and Hopeful Future One doesn\u2019t have to be a brilliant social analyst to see that the contemporary world order is doomed, destined to start visibly crumbling within the next decade or two at the latest. The neoliberal system, in fact the corporate capitalist system, is radically unsustainable. It is too unstable, too universally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[111,171,5493,7473,215,1224,341,2057,6996,769,7474,1175],"class_list":["post-10307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-capitalism","tag-corporations","tag-counterpunch","tag-dismay","tag-doom","tag-exploitation","tag-future","tag-hope","tag-neoliberalism","tag-sustainability","tag-unsustainable","tag-world-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10308,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307\/revisions\/10308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}