The Success of Capitalism

Capitalism has been successful. There's more rich people than ever before. Millionaires and billionaires are popping up in China, India, Africa and Russia; places essentiallty barren of aboriginal wealth 50 years ago. I expect there will be in the near future just as many rich as there are poor. As many starving as those obese, as many homeless as those in mansions and as many needing as there are those with too much. This is the continual disparity of distribution, the seemingly magnetic polarization of have v. have not. There's no trickle down, job creators don't exist. Wealth makes more wealth and no matter how much the excess grows wealth does little to help anyone but the wealthy. Some super rich like Warren Buffet become so saturated that they become humble.

Bill Gates is a good example of the new rich. Bill was brought up comfortable, educated and well loved. Bill was curious, dedicated and focused. If anyone would succeed it would be a kid like Bill. Not many thriving capitalists emerge from poverty. Occassionally a top athelete, a dictator, drug lord or gangster crawls out of the primordial mud of poverty but for the most part good capitalists are born to it or grow from seemingly well adjusted kids with reward expectations. Rags to riches was always a myth, Horatio Alger was a liar and all labor is lost or goes to the betterment of betters.

The vast middle is fodder, so much grass. The green feeds the rich and the grass is rewarded with crap. Comfort, toys and food makes the grass greasy, puckered and fat. Beware all of your wishes for they may come true. Desire is as crippling as polio. Satiation destroys curiousity. We of the great growing middle are suffocating in comfort. To want what you don't have and to have what you don't need is the secret to consumerism. If 70% of the economy is consumer based we are trapped in a revolving cycle of simple greed. The energy produced is gaseous, wealth become ethereal, electronic and useless, bubbles form and burst. The fodder takes a mowing and the wealthy figure out new ways to take.

Our President is too timid to take a stand and not wily enough to trick the ricos and their minions in Congress. Our job is to suffer until we (the people) have had enough.