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LL, imo all bizness owners are not "capitalists" what is passing for capitalism today would shock tf out of adam smith. still, smith had a good understanding of what a capitalist is. In Chapter IV of Book III, I found this; “All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.” In Adam Smith’s time, it was the merchants and manufacturers that were the “masters of mankind.” Here in our current age, from my perspective, the “masters of mankind” are the multi-national corporations, war profiteers, and financial institutions. We hear of historic levels of disparity where a person working full time, making minimum wage, can barely afford rent. Smith tells us that the great proprietors do not improve society. Here is another quote from the same chapter, “The personal expense of the great proprietors having in this manner gradually increased, it was impossible that the number of their retainers should not as gradually diminish, till they were at last dismissed altogether.” Smith goes on to say that proprietors will always raise rents and the price of survival to feed their insatiable wantonness for excess and vanity. They’re always going to pursue policies for their interests at the expense of everyone else. In our age, the “masters of mankind’ manipulate the financialization of the economy; working class citizens face greater insecurity while elites are granted protections in forms of deregulation and lower tax rates. It was the taxpayer who bailed out the financial institutions for 2007/2008 economic crises. Is this capitalism, what say you, Adam Smith? In book IV, Chapter VII, “The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatever.” The merchants were the masters of mankind in Smith’s day; it is the multinational corporations, financial institutions, and war profiteers that are the current masters of mankind. It’s all for them and nothing for anyone else. Adam Smith also had the "invisible hand" idea, in that capitalism has a way to spread (unintended)social benefits to everyone. but then, classical capitaism as expressed by adam smith had a foundation of sympathy and empathy for others, this is articulated in smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments.

fool me twice, epic bass line------ whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy? oh, so what you see, you might not get http://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/03/22/dakota-access-pipeline-vandalism-highlights-sabotage-risks

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it's an historical fact that some of those episodes were the driving force inspiring thomas hobbes to write and publish The Leviathan sadly, the Azure Window off Malta collapsed into the sea 4 days ago. omen? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/03/09/that-sad-day-arrived-maltas-azure-window-as-seen-on-game-of-thrones-collapses-into-sea/?utm_term=.99c62c5ce410

i am happy to provide scholarly peer reviewed sources. it took less than 3 minutes to find these: "More recent liberal academic theories of fascism have defined it as: authoritarian nationalism; reactionary mass movement; revolutionary ultra-nationalism; synthesis of right-wing and left-wing characteristics; mobilizing myth of national rebirth." https://daily.jstor.org/do-you-know-fascism-when-you-see-it/ also please read (esp. p 25): Griffin, Roger. “The Primacy of Culture: The Current Growth (Or Manufacture) of Consensus within Fascist Studies.” Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 37, no. 1, 2002, pp. 21–43., www.jstor.org/stable/3180744. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3180744?mag=do-you-know-fascism-when-you-see-it&seq=5#page_scan_tab_contents

“The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.” ---Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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https://www.popchartlab.com/products/birds-of-north-america not the same as being outdoors with birds, still, a cool poster

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I watched live feed of Water protectors singing one last time at Oceti Sakowin camp as they rolled up their flag and began taking down the last tents. Sovereignty is nonnegotiable. This is the foretold seventh generation after Crazy Horse and this Generation made a heroic stand at Standing Rock for the next 7 generations.

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