Fuck Capitalism

Capitalism is founded on the socially reckless belief that value can rightly be extracted from society by any means deemed expedient without regard for the consequences. This approach allows us to manufacture, promote, and sell poorly designed, harmful, unhealthy, thoughtless products under the banner of "freedom", thereby causing massive long-term societal damage.

Though apologists call this valueless approach to resource exchange the best system possible, they are only repeating propaganda that advocates the accumulation of individual private wealth without concern for the implications of the methods used to obtain that wealth or its social results. For example, there is no consideration given to the widespread harm inflicted on society as a result of media, junk food, mechanistic behavioral demands, pollution, economic deceit, and other fundamental aspects of modern capitalism.

The result of this type of thinking is a multi-level sabotage.

• Our jobs are stupid and we merely perform functions for money

  Because our jobs have no social value, we don't believe in them. But neither does our neighbor or our neighbor's neighbor; we robotically perform functions for money and pretend this is normal. As a result, our entire society reflects a complete lack of belief in the honorability and usefulness of our jobs.

• Our jobs are the focus of our lives

  The work we perform is meaningless and unrewarding, but because it is the focus of our lives we eventually come to believe that all life is just like our jobs. Capitalism fosters an unhealthy, unnatural perspective on life, thus it is socially undesirable.

• Our jobs are mindlessly materialistic

  All day long we are made to think of things in terms of products and money, never in terms of what matters to the human spirit or the advancement of the species. Without any meaningful aspiration our time is wasted while we live as an interchangeable cog in a stupid, churning machine.

Capitalism is a jail from which we must escape.

"I produce tons of Cheetos because I believe in the idea, not because I get lots of money for fattening up America with crap."
- James Glickfield, CEO

"I honestly believe that 'Friends' is cutting edge artistic, social or political commentary, or something."
- Debra Kauffman, producer

"When I set out to make the first disposable lighter, my eyes weren't on the profits, but in the advantages this technology offers to cancer-bound smokers."
- Robert Rosenweig, CFO

"The Apple Macintosh isn't a profit center, but an ideological drive to 'think different' because we really believe it is better."
- Steve Jobs

"We don't make cars because we need jobs and like massive profits, but we feel that we're doing the world a service by empowering individuals to drive in vehicles that need maintenance less than once every three months."
- Steve Hasslestein, CEO

"Here at Moskovitz toxic waste disposal, we throw your waste into the groundwater because we think it's great that humans build up tolerance to cancer, instead of simply disposing of their waste intelligently. It has nothing to do with saving money."
- Bill Rothsteinwitz, Owner

We are not opposed to the trading of goods and services, which is necessary for the survival of any permanent civilization. However, when we make the method of trading goods and services - money - a goal above all us, we destroy the ability to do anything but parasitize ourselves until we collapse and are reborn as a lesser grade, more animal society.

Capitalism is more than using money to trade for goods and services. It is the use of financing and borrowing to make money in itself a means of social control. It is "free enterprise," and the concept of a society where to have a decent standard of living you have to be monetarily competitive.

Whether the values of capitalism derive from Judaism as alleged above, surely they have a lot in common with both Judaism and Christianity in that money is given a supernatural importance in our society. It's as if money exists on a level of holiness separated from this world, and its world is seen as pure and correct to command us. Thus we follow it like dogs, and like dogs we eat each other until only the meannest and dumbest are left.

This type of society might be fine if you're already dumb and mean (although you may be shrewd), it's destructive to all the higher things that make civilization worthwhile. Intelligent, exciting people. Art, music, literature. Even architecture and cooking are in decline in a society that knows only dollar value. When does the madness end?