The War on Yemen Continues....
Capitalism has an interesting built in feature. It creates poverty from abundance. There is a cute leftist parable which attempts to explain this phenomenon when capitalists; not the people; hold the means of production.
A Parable
It is a snowy christmas eve and the home is quite chilly.
The child asks their father why the house is so cold.
The Father replies, "Because we have no coal."
The child asks their Father why they have no coal.
The Father replies, "Because I have been laid off from the coal mine."
The child asks their Father why they have been laid off from the coal mine.
Their Father replies, "Because there is too much coal."
Beyond the worker family
Of course if the means of production were in the hands of the workers then there would be more than enough coal to go around.
This parable plays out in sovergn states as well. Those countries that attempt to distribute the wealth of production among all its peoples are severly punished by the capitalist countries/empires. We see that today in such countries as Venezuela, Bolivia, Iran and of course the most severe case presently... Yemen.
Thoughts from one who attenpted to bring aid
Caleb Maupin jumps right into the issue of the ongoing war crimes currently underway in Yemen, so no need to wade through a long video.
He captures the history of what has lead to a Christmas market massacre of innocent men, women and children over the holudays and the missle strikes to the medical university in the capital killing doctors in training.
Conclusion
There is far too much coal in Yemen.
If only the people realised they have the power to give or take away from the capitalist system.
Food is more valuable than gold or diamonds to the rich. And thats what really scares them should they lose control.
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In these days of mass anxiety there are no doubt some capitalists are concerned about the rabble. Nick Hanaeur comes to mind. However, the problem seems not so much how the rabble will react but a system whose rewards are based on profit. This system is presently running amuck and eating its own tail; as predicted by Marx in Das Kapital.
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moneyfiat money is debt... or generated via debt. If you are a tax slave then that is your debt. Negative interest rates give no value to saving fiat. Coming to a bank near you, if not there already.Without trying to sound like an analysis or adviser, my personal feeling is that crypto is going to play a huge role in the next stage of the evolution of the world economy. The concepts that STEEM's DPoS is playing with shall have far reaching influences in that evolution in my opinion.
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That’s the same way I feel, take some personal responsibility and stop using their services! Yes in some cases you can’t and for that I c an understand that’s a monopoly but the creatures of comfort we’ve become isnt the fault of capitalism! We chose this, every day we continue to vote for it with our money and actions
The world's super rich helped by the world's superpower and the world's last apartheid and worst criminal regimes bombing the Arab's poorest country for over 5 years killing thousands every month directly by bombing and slowly by diseases and starvation, and at the end they're losing the war they started!
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It is a war they cannot win. The quest for profit is killing the very consumer base that had been the power house of the western economies. Now selling weapons and generating conflicts is the only means to maintain the Military Complex. It is like eating your child. Thankfully the world is waking up to the evil the Profit Quest has become.
My feeling is that history shall thank the Syrian people for halting the march of that evil, giving the world time to wake up and take measures to counter it.
Not only halted the march of that evil, it managed to reverse the domino effect in some countries that were taken by the anti-Islamic Muslim Brotherhood cult controlled by the evil powers, like in Tunisia and Egypt to a large extent, and also gave the platform for Russia and China to strengthen their presence in the region, allowed a breathe to Iran and now countries like India, and even Turkey, ironically, are saying no more often to the USA.
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