They always think they can live forever. All the way until they’re buried in a tomb with all their organs pulled out through their nose and sitting in jars next to their dumb dead bodies.
It's the plot of This Other Eden. It seemed way over the top (but just believable enough) when I read it in the early '90s.
goodreads.com/book/show/88...
Not just some average businessmen, but quite the Internationale of mostly big steel and defence co's (Thyssen, Comité des Forges, Vickers, Dutch Shell etc.) paid abt 50M Reichsmark for his 1932 campaign, when rally hopping by plane all over the country became a thing.
Don't forget all the American businesses that had investments in Nazi Germany, or businessmen who boosted Nazism at home, like Henry Ford. Ford was one of Hitler's heroes, admired for his business savy and for his staunch antisemitism.
The American right has the weirdest people. They give soviet communism too much credit by claiming it was defeated by Reagan, not collapsing due to its own lack of sustainability. Now they're trying to implement capitalism as if they only had a copy of Das Kapital to guide them.
You’d think the Democratic Party is controlled by Bolsheviks based on their stated beliefs. They’re ready to make their bargain like in 1932/1933.
The thing is, when you visit conservative spaces online they really seem to belief that Marxism and communism are the driving forces behind the Dems.
Except that Wall Street honchos & Silicon Valley billionaire Edgelords never bothered taking history, political science, or philosophy classes in college & missed the memo on how fascism always eats its own. They couldn't define communism if they had to.
IMO, stock prices are high because of the huge amount of investment capital caused by historically high inequality.
The market isn’t a predictor of the future as much as it’s simply driven by supply and demand.
The foundational tension/contradiction of modern liberalism is more or less expressed in that quote. You may think that capitalism is an integral part of a liberal-democractic society, but capitalism definitely doesnt believe that.
This is the most government had been for sale in my lifetime. Started with “Corps are ppl.” Straight line from there to multi-million $ escapades for Supreme Court justices, pols “reimbursing” themselves bogus campaign loans. Soon DJT stock manipulation for favors. We’re porked.
They're really trying to go for a Business Plot II, aren't they? Just because they don't want to pay taxes and abide by even the most threadbare of regulation.
They didn't become abominably rich so that someone else could tell them what to do. Why, all this money should mean they can do whatever they like to whomever they want.
They also seem to think that they can control Trump, or that he won't get in their way. German elites made that same gamble and lost about 90 years ago.
They are convinced that the mistakes of the 20th Century were made because the people who made them were merely incompetent; not that what was attempted was inherently doomed to failure.
Today's elites truly believe that they'd succeed where their predecessors failed.
Absolutely! Economic theories are nice, but in the end it all comes down to Accounting.
The last time the economy became top-heavy it collapsed bringing about the Great Depression.
