{"id":56239,"date":"2020-12-29T19:46:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T00:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56239"},"modified":"2020-12-29T19:46:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T00:46:42","slug":"the-unspoken-premise-of-modern-capitalism-is-that-the-world-will-be-saved-by-greedy-tech-oligarchs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56239","title":{"rendered":"The Unspoken Premise Of Modern Capitalism Is That The World Will Be Saved By Greedy Tech Oligarchs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2020\/12\/29\/the-unspoken-premise-of-modern-capitalism-is-that-the-world-will-be-saved-by-greedy-tech-oligarchs\/\">The Unspoken Premise Of Modern Capitalism Is That The World Will Be Saved By Greedy Tech Oligarchs<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"eltd-blog-single-share\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-holder eltd-dropdown\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-dropdown\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article id=\"post-9310\" class=\"post-9310 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-billionaires tag-capitalism tag-ecocide tag-environment tag-oligarchs tag-plutocrats tag-socialism\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/medium-2.png?fit=720%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/medium-2.png?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/medium-2.png?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"400\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p>Psychopathic neocon Nikki Haley is greasing the wheels for her 2024 presidential campaign by screaming that America has been taken over by socialism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c2020 was the year socialism went mainstream,\u201d Haley\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NikkiHaley\/status\/1343607059569401856\">tweeted<\/a>\u00a0today. \u201cThe dangerous ideology, which has failed everywhere it has been tried and ruined countless lives, is on its way to becoming the default economic policy of the Democratic Party. This terrifying trend threatens the future of every American.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ah yes, America. The\u00a0country where Republicans spend all day screaming that socialism is happening and Democrats spend all day making sure it never does.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1343607059569401856&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2020%2F12%2F29%2Fthe-unspoken-premise-of-modern-capitalism-is-that-the-world-will-be-saved-by-greedy-tech-oligarchs%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1343607059569401856\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, outside of Nikki Haley\u2019s magical fantasy world where Joe Biden is ushering in a Marxist world order and Bernie Sanders is personally guillotining billionaires in Central Park, Americans are being\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/why-theyre-denying-you-healthcare\">denied financial support and healthcare<\/a>\u00a0even as millions are thrown out of work during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, the world is still very much locked into zealous worship of the great god known as capitalism. And it is choking the world to death.<\/p>\n<p>We live on a finite planet of finite resources with a finite ecosystem that has a finite capacity to absorb punishment without becoming uninhabitable. Science tells us we are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2019\/07\/24\/only-enlightened-collectivism-can-save-us\/\">fast approaching the breaking point<\/a>\u00a0at a debatable rate of acceleration. Depending on what scientists you believe we could get there in several decades, or it could be a whole lot sooner.<\/p>\n<p>Capitalism, the predominant driving force of human behavior in our world right now, offers exactly two potential solutions to this dilemma. The first is to pretend the dilemma doesn\u2019t exist, which is why a Venn diagram of climate denialism and support for capitalism is always going to be a near-perfect circle. The second is the entirely faith-based hope that some kind of sustainable technological innovation is going to save the day before our behavior drives us off the cliff of extinction.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Unspoken Premise Of Modern Capitalism Is That The World Will Be Saved By Greedy Tech Oligarchs Psychopathic neocon Nikki Haley is greasing the wheels for her 2024 presidential campaign by screaming that America has been taken over by socialism. \u201c2020 was the year socialism went mainstream,\u201d Haley\u00a0tweeted\u00a0today. \u201cThe dangerous ideology, which has failed everywhere [&hellip;]<\/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":[2,6],"tags":[9336,17039,111,599,2799,30780,827],"class_list":["post-56239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-big-tech","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-capitalism","tag-oligarchs","tag-socialism","tag-tech-oligarchs","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56239","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=56239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}