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Chapter 10: Index
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Capitalism
The Instrument of Capitalism
  1. greed - the driving mentality of the capitalist enterprise
  2. labour - the power source of the capitalist enterprise
  3. corporate size - no upper limit on the size of a corporate entity
  4. the cancer of capitalism
  5. systems flow model of the corporate machine
  6. limited liability - an unfair wall of protection.

The Capitalist's Eternal Quest
   
To maximise profit by maximising income and minimising costs.

  1. free market - the exclusive domain in which the capitalist operates
  2. product population and its rate of growth within the market
  3. market expansion from local to national to international to global
  4. product tuning - promoting fast movers, cutting out slow movers
  5. product change - continuously launching new products
  6. supermarkets - a prime example of capitalist aggression

The Effects of Capitalism on the Individual

  1. Diminishing choice and quality of products, eg:
  2. Floating Interest Rates - recipe for ruination
  3. Global polarisation of specialist skills
  4. Diminishing value of hard won high technology skills

The Capitalist State Serves Capitalist Interests

  1. Language - a barrier to capitalist free trade.
  2. Capitalist Government
  3. Omnipotent Cretins
  4. Higher Education

Tax: Makes The Poor Subsidise The Rich

  1. Taxation and Economic Yield
  2. My own taxation figures:

What Does It Make of Common Man?

  1. An economic resource bought in a buyer's market for a minimum wage
  2. trickle-down theory - the ultimate economic fallacy of capitalism
  3. A captured consumer
  4. A subject of the state
  5. Brunt of official suspicion
  6. Is it any wonder he becomes a petty immitator of his greedy masters
    and an inconsiderate neighbour to his powerless peers ...
    • An aggressive speeding driver with no concern for others
    • Leaving his kids to run riot in the street
    • Leaving his pets to foul other people's gardens
    • Annoying others with his bright external lights
    • Vainly seeking escape through his pounding music

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