The prophecy

[mina.magpie]

I came across the most interesting quote in a local newspaper this morning:

"Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take on more and more expensive credit, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalised, and the State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to Communism.

Karl Marx wrote these words in 1867 in "Das Kapital".

Just thought it was really interesting.

Mina.

[Miniar]

You know, it's just the obvious end outcome of capitalism. Capitalism only works as long as there is an expansion, as long as it builds on itself. Think of it like a house of cards, not in the wobbly sense but that sooner or later you run out of cards (there's only so many resources translated to money out there) and then the only way you can keep building is if you knock the house down and start building from the bottom up again.
Thus, Capitalism will unavoidably come with periodical recessions in which the whole house of cards comes tumbling down and we all have to start rebuilding from the very bottom up.
Kinda like a roller coaster ride.

[RebeccaFog]

The people who caused the world's problems will struggle most to prevent change.  Someday they're going to lose.