The Contradiction of Capitalism

I took this down while watching one of Peter Joseph's videos:

"The system is literally denying peak production. What we see in the world today is the deliberate withholding of social efficiency for the sake of preserving the status quo."

I understand "peak production" to mean the peak productivity of human beings. Productivity is being limited to the few and denied the many, because only the members of the status quo (the privileged) have the resources, i.e., money, know-how, connections, to have access to education, technology, high living standard, a voice in the media, representation in the government, well-remunerated participation in the economy. On the other hand, wasteful productivity is encouraged because of the mentality that it's alright to use resources however you wish to, if you can buy them, and in order to make a profit, produce low-quality products that you know will only last a short time and underperform, so that consumers will be forced to buy the same products again, or products that are a little better and cost more -- but whose obsolescence will be built-in just the same, exactly as their cheaper, lower-performing counterparts.

And so, money is the highest value, and the planet exists to be exploited, poisoned, destroyed, in order to gain profits, and more and more profits.

Our planet is filling up with garbage -- plastic, pesticides, nuclear waste, carcinogenic chemicals, obsolete gadgets, oil spills, radiation. We're poisoning the air because the petroleum industry has blocked the use of cleaner, cheaper, non-environmentally-destructive power sources.

Nothing can be done to improve things because "it costs too much". But there is never any talk about the cost of poverty, of alcoholism and drug addiction, of violence, of war, of THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR PLANET AND OF OUR HUMAN FAMILY.

The U.S. has given BP authorization to drill 10 more wells in the Gulf of Mexico. The pro-nuclear power lobby is shouting its praises of nuclear power, turning Fukushima into the incontrovertible PROOF that nuclear energy is SAFE because THAT PLANT was merely OLD.

Yeah well, we all know all those people need to be certified. However, no men in white coats will come to take them away, because THEY ARE the men in white coats.

We'll see though, if they can discipline Mother Nature.

Quem deus vult perdere, dementat prius.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first drive mad.

I am betting on Mother Nature. She will win.