Nasa-funded study warns of ‘collapse of civilisation’ in coming decades

[Leasy]

Aka Capitalism.

Plain as day to see. We should have let 2008 go down and rebuilt from that, instead we only made it worse. 2008 would have been minor compared to what will eventually happen.

What would of happen to the world if we let the banks collapse in 2008?????

 

[Type Username Here]

What would of happen to the world if we let the banks collapse in 2008?????

A minor hiccup relative to what will happen by letting the disease spread. Hell, we fueled the disease with those bailouts. Corporate profits are at a record high, the stock markets rebounded, Wall Street just gave record breaking bonuses to their executives, 1% made money during the recession and so on. Therefore, we only prolonged and intensified the inevitable.

 

[tmonster]

A minor hiccup relative to what will happen by letting the disease spread. Hell, we fueled the disease with those bailouts. Corporate profits are at a record high, the stock markets rebounded, Wall Street just gave record breaking bonuses to their executives, 1% made money during the recession and so on. Therefore, we only prolonged and intensified the inevitable.

unfortunately, the whole thing seems to have been a planned and calculated money grab, from ninja loans to bail out
and it will happen again, I hope to be well prepared for the next one

 

[Type Username Here]

What is the alternative to capitalism?

 

[Trill Evans]

Those Marx smilies are tuff

 

[Serious]

 

[Brown_Pride]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...f-civilisation-in-coming-decades-9195668.html


I'm not one for doomsday preaching but .

...wow, this is "the message" i've been preaching for some time. IT'S OUR FUKIN NATURE and we've been through the same cycle time and time again.

I'm actually kinda stoked...not for the coming doom but because I now have "scientific proof and modeling" to back up my theory. I think a lot of people are not focusing on the masses getting fed up either. IMHO that's the key to when and where this shyt pops off and if anything further highlights just how got damn ridiculous the idea of "trickle down" economics and quite frankly large parts of capitalism truly are.

And before we start on this "what's better than capitalism" road any further let's settle down and realize capitalism isn't a form of government, it's a form of commerce. The irony is if we look at ancient civilizations that lasted much much longer than ours has what shocks me most is that the ones that lasted the longest seam to have either had a king or emperor

The world is a place of equilibrium, something capitalism does not foster.

Technology has only hasted the unbalancing of things.

All that being said I still think it's not to late to learn from past mistakes and i believe humans are more than capable of overcoming our nature...hell it's why we're not in the jungle hurling shyt at eachother.

 

[DEAD7]

The discussion of capitalism must always be framed in the context of "compared to ____"...

... and as long as it outperforms the other options critiques are pretty meaningless.
Not invalid or wrong. Just meaningless.

 

[Poitier]

The discussion of capitalism must always be framed in the context of "compared to ____"...

... and as long as it outperforms the other options critiques are pretty meaningless.

u sure about that? http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/data/spi

 

[DEAD7]

u sure about that? http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/data/spi

I take it you are under the impression that Sweden, Switzerland, and Germany are not capitalist?

 

[Poitier]

I take it you are under the impression that Sweden, Switzerland, and Germany are not capitalist?

They have mixed systems

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

u sure about that? http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/data/spi

Dont bother. Everytime this comes up DEAD7 says that it wont work in America because we arent racially homogenous, or because there are too many people.

 

[DEAD7]

They have mixed systems

They have capitalism with social policies favoring union bargaining and social insurance. Its capitalism with a heart, but still capitalism, and it supports the Euro.
The Euro nation that are the most capitalist are the well off... coincidence?

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

you magnificent b*stard, I almost ruined my monitor:zfg::sweetjeezus::zfg:




You must spread reputation to at least 40 other user(s) before you can give reputation to Type Username Here again.

You could rep me instead cause I made and hosted it..

 

[DEAD7]

Dont bother. Everytime this comes up DEAD7 says that it wont work in America because we arent racially homogenous, or because there are too many people.

Those are both legit factors, but not needed here. The nations opponents of capitalism point to are in fact capitalist Its hilarious.