i just wanted to highlight something that James put out there, cause it was REALLY smart:

“The time will soon arive when the vast majority of the human population will not have accsess to land,food or water.The bulk of humanity will have become trespassers upon a privately owned planet.”

every day thousands of people are thrown off their ancestral lands, that they have lived on for generations, and are forced to move into cities. this can be done forcefully through evictions, government intervention, racism, etc., but is more commonly a result of economic privation through DEBT. once stripped of our land, we become dependent on selling our labor in order to survive, and competing against every other worker on the planet for a wage. in response to Aaron, wouldn’t you consider this self-perpetuating and ruthless system a plague?

in the words of James:

“For the sake of your children and grandchildren demand an end to the capitalist system. Support,promote and help build an economy based upon the right of all humans to derive the resources needed to sustain life from nature.”

thanks again
alex

Capitalism is about population control.The portion of humanity that can not afford land to live upon or to produce food upon, is the portion that can not afford to live.That portion is now growing ever larger.The time will soon arive when the vast majority of the human population will not have accsess to land,food or water.The bulk of humanity will have become trespassers upon a privately owned planet.This is the unavoidable conclusion of capitalism. When the ownership class no longer needs or chooses not to sell,the consumer class will no longer have a right to live.Capitalism assures that death will be the only hope of freedom for all but a minute portion of humanity. For the sake of your children and grandchildren demand an end to the capitalist system. Support,promote and help build an economy based upon the right of all humans to derive the resources needed to sustain life from nature.An economy based upon the mutual sharing of the natural commons is the only economic system that will make freedom and life possible for all,not just a small ownership class.Remember, this is not a private planet !

Increasing material expectations.
– One cannot take this out of the human existance without creating a world of robots. Those with merit will always want to have a better lifestyle than those without – those with power will also want this and it will be tough to tame ambitious people that create value and employ the masses… think about what you are asking to tell people not to ever expect more out of life – it’s what they need to expect, some of what you mention.
Devaluing of human connectedness.
– Real capitalism promotes connected people because a company that gets too big loses relationships to smaller and nimble companies when there is no subsidy.
Promotes selfishness.
– There is no way to eliminate those that are selfish other than to channel their ambition to acquire resources and the best view. Marketing can be tuned but the bigger picture is ego and testosterone and nobody wants to mess with the DNA that created our domination of this planet in the first place.
Obliterates self-reliance.
– We live in a high tech world, it’s not as important as it once was and even if shit hit the fan, how healthy is the natural world now a days???
Alienation from humanity.
– Real capitalism truly participated would require all businesses to create real realtionships of accountabiliy with all clients.
Pain of false hope.
– This sounds more like the government in any form because of it’s market inefficiencies. There is no false hope if there is a level playing field.

just my ideas.