Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Capitalists: if the free-market is the epitome of civil society, how then can we justify (cont.)?

The loss of thousands upon thousands of jobs to faraway nations? The only reason for this is that the advocates for laissez-faire prosperity wish to pad their pockets only further - depriving hard working men and women of their jobs so that they can pay far below the minimum wage to citizens in some far-flung, poverty-stricken nation. The people of these states wallow beneath the yoke of our materialism, and receive close to nil for their work. We turn a blind eye to this, instead railing against the perception of a growing threat south of our borders, the inhabitants of which - we so pridefully declare - are depriving us of our bread and er. These "threats" (of which there are actual few) live - for the most part - in destitution, working the farmlands of this nation in the face of growing animosity. Such anger only turns us from the true threat - the wild lawlessness of the free market, through which corporations outsource the jobs of many an American. How then can we justify the actions of the free-market, when it so clearly strives to stamp out its very name and divide?

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