Excuse Me for Loving

One aspect of capitalism that I find personally offensive is its outright discouragement of common altruism. In this regard, capitalism directly opposes Christianity, which commands us to be kind and generous. There is more at stake for capitalists in fostering selfishness than mere compliance with their system. By being selfish, we fit better into the mathematical formulas, such as those of Game Theory, which they employ to predict our behavior. A predictable population is a readily manipulated one. Being at the forefront of consumer trends is of vital importance to big business. It makes their plans much easier to complete when we possess the characteristics of ambitious competitors in a ruthless game. But people tend to defy these traits. There are other motives for doing things besides self promotion. This causes capitalists not only to pressure us into being selfish, but to punish us for being unselfish. A few years ago, you may have heard George Carlin getting laughs with a statement I shared in 2007 about businessmen. In so many words, I said that a businessman projects his distrust of others onto the people around him, expecting that everyone is out to better themselves at his expense. As it turns out, George Carlin was out to better himself at my expense, and perhaps that's why he was rewarded with a glamorous, high paying job by a broadcasting corporation. But persons like myself, with unselfish motives for their work, are punished. And if we are admired by the population, capitalists do everything in their power to make the people reject us. That may explain how my popular life-work was permitted to fall into the hands of vicious, lying frauds on TV.
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