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Saturday, 12 September 2026

Blame Capitalism?


If you blame Capitalism you sound as if you are blaming human behaviour for the state of human society. You could come across as a little naive because Capitalism dominates our lives, it's all that we know. As we get older we come to recognise its restrictions and limitations but it's all that we know.

Michael Crick, the Journalist, described the 36million donation to Reform UK Ltd by a British based crypto currency dealer as 'tawdry'. If you went up to Donald Trump and said that his offer to every adult voter of $5,000 if the Republicans are voted in as the majority of both houses as tawdry, he would reply "Audrey" I have no recollection of any Audrey.  

Not content with suspicion over the £5,000,000 bung for services rendered, Reform UK Ltd are in doubling down freefall and appear over the moon with donations of loadsa money to be able to buy the Prime Ministership of Britain. 

Britain and America are so similar in their dis-functional democracies that money talks. "We might just be able to blow the doors off this thing with more investment and a share option"

I hope that Jack Polanski takes Holborn & St Pancras for the Greens but I also hope that Andy Burnham is a success as Prime Minister as he has identified the 40 years plus scourge of neo liberalism and he and Ed Miliband are pushing back against the settler colonialism of the Israeli West Bank. Too little too late some are opining but as Rome was not built in a day, the Zionist entity in Israel will not be toppled in a day either.

Songs have been sung about money since the first shekel changed hands but it's those that don't complain about money that seem to have the most of it. They don't question 'the oil' of currency they just get on with acquiring more of it. We can blame the billionaires all we like but the billionaires are the Untouchables. Even accusations of Pedophilia cannot bring them down. 

For those of us who are bad with money. It passes through our hands. It is spent as soon as it reaches us. To earn money by any form of work or toil could be viewed as prostitution. You are prostituting your time in return for a remuneration. You can lose that remuneration in an instant but you will never get that time back.

At what age does it sink in that we will never be free?

When Alan Milburn knocks on our door and asks our parents "Are there any 'Not in Employment, Education or Training' in your household?

We have workfare at Sainsburys or they can join the British Army!

Factory Fodder or Fodder for the War Machine.

It is obvious that money talks but isn't it up to us whether we put any value on that money?

Isn't that what cryptocurrency is after all? 

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Blame Capitalism?

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