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1. Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Aug-2018 08:35:57 EDT Mayel - ghost account

   "Capitalism was never a device for societies. Here's an analogy: think of a space rocket. Ninety-nine per cent of the rocket is just a fuel can – and when the fuel is used up, it falls back to earth. The people who built the rocket are way up in space. This is how it works. You're just part of the fuel can. The noise of the rocket might make you feel powerful, but in reality it's not built to go far. You will crash back down."

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   From the book Lights Out in Wonderland

   1. Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Aug-2018 08:37:52 EDT Mayel - ghost account

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      "From a middle-class perspective you might see the economy failing, but the truth is capitalism has done its work perfectly, as it was bound to do. While the markets appear to fail in the suburbs, ghettos, in shops and on the news, we actually live in the richest time of all human history. But you don't notice because of capitalism's success – real wealth has moved up into the hands of a very few. There never has been such wealth concentrated in individuals. Never."

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