the people who live within the world of finance are addicted to a game. it is not a game of survival against the elements of the cosmos that are hostile to life, it is not a game of self-reliance or belonging in a global enterprise — what i would label the real games of life — more it is a game like a boardgame. i wish it weren't so, but i am afraid the tired old game they insist on continuing to play is the depression-era game of Monopoly, a game whose ideas and principles were long ago, at least morally, discredited. and like the game, this modern capitalist system will end just as surely as the game of Monopoly ends, and in precisely the same way, when one combatant has acquired all the capital and there is noone else left standing with anything to lose.
and like people in all places through all time, when there is nothing left to lose, people get ugly.
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