Ilya rá Ilúvë
2nd May 2012, 01:49
I just wanted to share a situation that is currently ongoing in my life. It is just one example of the EXTREME stupidity, ignorance, and hypocrisy of your average capitalist. The person this story is about is one of my teachers in high school. She teaches AP economics, but I have her for a film class. All we do is watch classic films (which almost always reek of religious oppression and hypocrisy), and she's always trying to give us commentary on whats going on. We're watching Bonnie and Clyde, which is about poor people forced to rob banks. Now, we watch a scene in which they rob a bank, and she makes some comment like, "How terrible. They are horrible criminals and they are morally bankrupt. They are the worst sort of people."
So the bankers can sit around, making more money than they could possibly need, by taking peoples money, cars, houses etc. They make money by putting in their own sort of labor, and take other peoples money. So when a bank robber labors to rob a bank, and he takes somebody's money, it's suddenly wrong? Well of course, the ruling class consists of bankers, and the lower class consists of those forced to rob banks to live. They are forced to risk jail and bullets in exchange for a life on the run and a little bit of money, and they are horrible people, while bankers take even more money out of peoples pockets and have the full protection of the government behind them.
Now I'm not saying it's right to take somebody's things (within our current society of course. We won't have things soon, hopefully), all I'm saying is that it is no better than any other means of becoming rich. Accumulating wealth involves depriving other people of it, regardless of whether you do what society considers stealing or what society considers banking. No means of becoming rich is acceptable, and "stealing" is not worse at all then being a government official, making a living off of oppressing people, lying, and assuring your position in the future.
My main point with this story is to illustrate the astounding close-mindedness and hypocrisy of most people. In this age of technology, ignorance equals stupidity, because if you choose to remain ignorant when information abounds as it does, you are stupid.
Sorry for ranting so much. I just hate sitting there in that fascist classroom, unable to read (currently reading volume I of Capital) because she throws you out of the room if you don't watch the movie.
So the bankers can sit around, making more money than they could possibly need, by taking peoples money, cars, houses etc. They make money by putting in their own sort of labor, and take other peoples money. So when a bank robber labors to rob a bank, and he takes somebody's money, it's suddenly wrong? Well of course, the ruling class consists of bankers, and the lower class consists of those forced to rob banks to live. They are forced to risk jail and bullets in exchange for a life on the run and a little bit of money, and they are horrible people, while bankers take even more money out of peoples pockets and have the full protection of the government behind them.
Now I'm not saying it's right to take somebody's things (within our current society of course. We won't have things soon, hopefully), all I'm saying is that it is no better than any other means of becoming rich. Accumulating wealth involves depriving other people of it, regardless of whether you do what society considers stealing or what society considers banking. No means of becoming rich is acceptable, and "stealing" is not worse at all then being a government official, making a living off of oppressing people, lying, and assuring your position in the future.
My main point with this story is to illustrate the astounding close-mindedness and hypocrisy of most people. In this age of technology, ignorance equals stupidity, because if you choose to remain ignorant when information abounds as it does, you are stupid.
Sorry for ranting so much. I just hate sitting there in that fascist classroom, unable to read (currently reading volume I of Capital) because she throws you out of the room if you don't watch the movie.