On Capitalism, History and Conspiracies

Capitalism is not the philosophy of Big Business, but rather of the little guy trying to get ahead.

(The following was originally a Facebook comment, posted Dec. 30, 2011.)

by Rod D. Martin
December 30, 2011

God knows you're right to harbor suspicion of big businessmen, big bankers and so forth. While this should not preclude you from remembering that there are other enemies with other motives too (the Japanese were considered technologically backward yahoos right before they blew up Pearl Harbor, and even if you want to blame that on FDR, there's no question they weren't yahoos and weren't backward), nevertheless be certain of this: that man is fallen, that he sins by nature, that his primary motive in doing so -- like Eve in the Garden -- is to be his own law maker, his own standard, in short, his own god. The poorest act on this impulse daily: the rich are no more or less guilty. But the bigger the corporation, the bank or the government, the more able it is to make its rules stick, and the more able it is also to undermine others to its own gain.

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