Disaster Capitalism?
http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine/reviews/profiting-disaster-capitalism
http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine
Naomi Klein does raise good points. However it’s the natural course of order in the world. When something is lost, someone else is always gaining. When someone is gaining, someone else is always losing.
So let’s play devil’s advocate.
Given that you know a war is going to happen, who wouldn’t invest? Seriously.
Let’s take housing as it is today. Everyone’s freaking out about the housing market, people are going into foreclosure, prices are dropping. People are running around in fear like chickens with their heads cut off.
You know what I tell people? Now’s the best time to buy!
Let’s take the CEO of Moniker.com. He brokered wallstreet.com for millions of dollars — why? Because when the whole web thing crashed and went down the smart people turned the bankrupt companies losses into assets. He went out of his way to pick up the domain names of several bankrupt companies after the dot com bust and he brokered them later.
So let’s take the war. Someone bombed the WTC. Given that a war is going to happen, the business decision to do is to realize that there will exist companies that will benefit from the war, and then to invest.
Is it sick? Yes.
Is it wrong? Yes.
Is it reality? Unfortunately.
Next time a war comes around I’m going to invest too. Every single ‘loss’ or ‘crash’, someone else is benefitting. It’s just a matter of perception.
Is what I’m saying sick? Yes.
Is what I’m saying really messed up? Yeah.
But what can you do? We can all protest but no one gives a shit. The country’s been disarmed, the US is too huge, the media is too influential (in seconds you could be painted from a hero to the biggest piece of shit on earth), and the chance for rebellion is almost impossible.
So what can you do? People are conservative. People live in fear. People like what they’re used to. They’re afraid of the unknown. They want to be able to sleep at night. They’re selfish.
So what can you do?
Regardless my point is – screw the conspiracy theories. ExxonMobil does not rule the world. You can only have so much money. It’s illogical to assume that politicians are so money-hungry and greedy that they need to kill the lives of millions of innocent people just so an oil company can have a million dollars. You have to realize there is some ulterior motive.
Unfortunately that motive isn’t purely based on money. I don’t know what it is. If we all knew what it was maybe the world wouldn’t be so messed up. But please, don’t give me “new world order” “private banks rule the world” bullcrap. There has to be some ultimate goal. These people already have millions of dollars. They have to have a plan or want to do something with it.