The Acceptable face of Capitalism

[lozzyloz]

Thinking about:

a) The growing food crisis in the developing world, largely due to unfair tariffs and subsidies plus food production switching to bio-fuels

b) The oil and gas companies once again reaping record profits as consumer energy costs continue to rise (and fuel inflation)

c) The Governor of the BoE speaking out against the excesses and short sighted behaviour of the city

Is this the acceptable face of Capitalism if we're to retain global domination of our economy, culture and way of life or is there another way?

[snorky]

There is another way of course, but its a scarey choice & I wont mention its name on this forum , as I will be engulfed in a froth of Daily mail inspired hatred.

[*Bob*]

Not.. .. .. Aromatherapy?!

[Ant]

Yes, I'm afraid it's the only choice left to us.

[bon3yard]

One day comrades the acceptable face of capitalism will be ground into the filthy mire by the workers steel toecaps!

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

I live in hope!

[*Bob*]

ChavWivaLawDegree Wrote:

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> I live in hope!

Of being a worker? Me too.

[Moos]

*Bob*, you are on fine form. Aromatherapy gets "post of the day" from me.

(doffs cap, tugs forelock)

[*Bob*]

Just mildly inebriated. Ignore me.

[lozzyloz]

Britain's banks are forecast to report bumper profits of more than ?42bn for 2007 despite being forced to stomach losses caused by the credit crunch, yet many homeowners will only have repossession of their family home to look forward to.

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

Fat pigs feeding frenzy with faces stuffed in our trough while fu(king us all up the @rse telling us to be grateful for consumer choice of chemically adulterated food and sweat shop produced clothes and other crap we are told we need to be fashionable/normal/better than the chavs while the world and economy goes to sh!t.

[lozzyloz]

CWALD are you posting from Mo' Bay?

[Brendan]

lozzyloz Wrote:

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> Britain's banks are forecast to report bumper

> profits of more than ?42bn for 2007 despite being

> forced to stomach losses caused by the credit

> crunch, yet many homeowners will only have

> repossession of their family home to look forward

> to.

Along the same lines: http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/business/consumers-to-link-oil-company-profits-and-petrol-prices-any-day-now-20080429910/

[lozzyloz]

I think CWALD used to be a senior executive at BP.

[Brendan]

Anyway no more talk of Capitalism it is May Day today after all. Shouldn?t we all be lynching our bosses or something?

Or just out dancing around poles that symbolise willies.

[Huguenot]

Gulags, the Stasi, one family one child....

Doh! That'll be the acceptable face of socialism

[lozzyloz]

Do you mean Communism?

[Brendan]

Or New Labour?

[david_carnell]

Or Stalinism?

[Huguenot]

I'm not sure, when I was reading this I got lost somewhere between Egotism, Nepotism, Thatcherism, Blairism, Neo-Conservatism, Buggerism, Aromatherapism and Imperialism.

I'm intrigued by the idea of a Sodomocracy.

[david_carnell]

You wouldn't be if you saw Brendan Burns at the EDT the other night!

...to death!! ...to death!!

*sorry, off on a tangent there*