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Old 10-10-2008, 11:12 PM   #96
mel
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Default Re: Capitalism, Sustainability, and the Possibility of Global Collapse

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Originally Posted by gwynned View Post
Well said, though I note few responses to your succint analysis. The last time we were so close to collapse, FDR stepped in, created some safety nets for the people and got the US involved in a war, which is what really got the economy back up and running - albeit after it killed about 50 million people. Prior to all that, revolution was in the air, their were labor strikes, and an awakened and angry public. FDR convinced the world that capitalism could be fixed. I hope now, we can at least see that a system based on profit is inherently unsustainable and brutal, one which cannot and should not be 'fixed.'
Definately, if we do what we have always done, we get what we have always gotten, evolution is about breaking out of that unacceptable *****, PEACE.
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