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[Bal]

I'm glad my bat wielding, steel working, union organizing grandfather isn't alive to see this. He beat the shit out of union breakers so that he could work a hard as balls job and earn enough money to build a house for his family on Grosse Ile, which the family still owns. Of all the fucking states in the union, Michigan goes right to work? How is that ever going to fucking function? Every industry there is dominated by the unions.

[Büge]

Hasn't Michigan been treading water ever since Roger & Me?

[Catloaf]

I'm glad my bat wielding, steel working, union organizing grandfather isn't alive to see this. He beat the shit out of union breakers [...]

Well, at least his spirit was carried on by someone punching a [minor] FOX "news" contributor in the face.

Hasn't Michigan been treading water ever since Roger & Me?

Conservative backlash to the Moore film, or the film's contents (Flint abruptly shifting from moderately prosperous town into one giant meth-lab the only place in Michigan scarier than Detroit*)?

*In Detroit, you don't have to be afraid of buildings, which in Flint may as well be renamed prize boxes; the prize being a sudden explosion and free wooden and glass shrapnel in your soft tissues.

[Büge]

What I meant was that ever since Detroit was gutted of its primary industry, the whole state's been on life support. Apologies for my improper use of metaphor.

[Brentai]

Let Detroit go bankrupt.  Failing that, make it go bankrupt.

[Shinra]

I can hope for a repeal but it's never going to fucking happen. Once that cat's let out of the bag, it's out forever. Goodbye, blue collar America. The middle class will miss you dearly.

[Bal]

I really am upset by that, actually. Like I said, my Grandfather worked in a steel mill for like forty years, but because of the union that gave him a living that made him a provider and a home owner for a wife and two kids. Not to say that times weren't still tough now and again, my grandmother also entered the workplace multiple times, but it's still a real loss.

[Brentai]

The old die older and the young die younger.

[Mongrel]

Jesus Christ, that article is brutal.

[Mongrel]

http://capitalismis.com

AHAHAHAHAHA

THIS SITE

NO REALLY

THIS SITE






_{Though, for what it's worth, that's one of the more beautifully-designed websites I've ever seen. I mean, it's no Uniqlo, but that's a pretty damn nice design.}

[Friday]

Even the color scheme screams Ayn Rand.

[Brentai]

I apologize to you liberals for implying that the behavior of conveniently redefining words is unique to you.

[TA]

At first, I read the URL as being "Capitalismis", and wondered if maybe it was a Christmas alternative.

[François]

I love how the quiz repeatedly uses the term "incorrect" when you disagree with it. For all it goes on about individual freedom it sure is keen on telling me I'm not entitled to my own opinions.

[Royal☭]

Should every individual have a right to employment?

Yes

Incorrect. Yikes! If there is a right to have employment, it imposes an obligation for someone else to provide a salaried position. Such tyranny is immoral. According to your answer, your preferred social system is fascism.

Ahh ha ha ha ha.

According to every question in that quiz, I prefer socialism.

Allegory - You’ve studied and worked hard in class, earning a 99   average, and you’re one of only three students with an A grade. The   other students have not studied as hard and have C grades. Is it okay   then that yours and the other A-student averages get reduced and shared   so that everyone gets a B grade on their records?

I was not allowed to answer "What the fuck does this have to do with economics?" as an answer.


And finally

As professionals, we have certain   fundamental obligations to society, to   clients, to the profession, and   to our peers and colleagues. Our professional ethics     are an important basis for our practice and these flow directly from     requisite capitalist values, but capitalism is widely misunderstood.     This little site is meant to shed some light on capitalism and perhaps     spark further investigation by others.

Preserved for all time is the majestic, lonely call of the White, Male Nerd.

[JDigital]

Meanwhile in Northern Ireland, widespread rioting over Belfast City Council's decision to limit the flying of the British flag from City Hall.

Protestors have started Facebook pages such as this one, including this post glorifying the massacre of thirteen unarmed civilians by the British army during a peaceful protest in 1972.

[Bal]

You know, I was just thinking, I miss The Troubles.

[Thad]

I love how the quiz repeatedly uses the term "incorrect" when you disagree with it. For all it goes on about individual freedom it sure is keen on telling me I'm not entitled to my own opinions.

You expected something else from a philosophy called Objectivism?  A is A.

Should every individual have a right to employment?

Yes

Incorrect. Yikes! If there is a right to have employment, it imposes an obligation for someone else to provide a salaried position. Such tyranny is immoral. According to your answer, your preferred social system is fascism.

Ahh ha ha ha ha.

And there it is in a nutshell: when Libertarians talk about rights and freedoms, they mean freedom FROM poor people, not freedom FOR poor people.

I'd like to see them all wiped out by a dirty telephone.

[Catloaf]

As professionals, we have certain   fundamental obligations to society,[...]

I'm not sure whether  or is more appropriate here.

[sei]

Should every individual have a right to employment?

Make the case where society benefits from ensuring accommodations to keep someone blind, deaf, and with an IQ of 40, employed.