The opposite of capitalism isn’t socialism: it’s sales taxes. We have become an empire of consumptionism (purchased lives rather than lived ones).

“In a society based on competition, you inevitably get fewer and fewer winners and more and more losers.”-Wendell Berry.

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“My husband used to say that the only way to make money from poor people is by keeping them poor.” -Topsy Turvey, “Making Money” by Terry Pratchett

What ‘American Interests’ are keeping our poor poor? All of them: decided at the cash registers by people buying cheap goods with externalized costs that they don’t know about.