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snagglepuss

(12,704 posts) Tue Jul 16, 2013, 11:29 AM Jul 2013

Capitalism summed up in a nutshell. "“capitalism is predicated on bad behaviour...

Shafting your workers, hurting your customers, destroying the land. Leaving the public to pick up the tab. These aren’t anomalies; this is how the system works; you get away with what you can and try to weasel out when you get caught .”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/opinion/sunday/fables-of-wealth.html?_r=1&

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Capitalism in its purest form is predatory Jessy169 Jul 2013 #1

Jessy169

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1. Capitalism in its purest form is predatory

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Tue Jul 16, 2013, 12:58 PM

Jul 2013

Like the dude said, "Never give a sucker an even break."

Who's a sucker? Anybody they can make a sucker out of, that's who.

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