Frankendesign

Capitalism is alive and thriving. April fools!
How do you know capitalism works? Better yet, how do you know when capitalism fails? Capitalism is self-serving, and it covers its own ass. It creates need and desire—powerful weapons used since the natives of this continent were convinced that they needed the alcohol they became addicted to, while at the trading posts they furnished their best furs and leathers to the Europeans who without such supplies would have perished in the new world wilderness. The upper hand goes to whoever can fulfill the need of an audience that has been infected with the belief that that need is essential. There is nothing within the system that either inhibits the propagation of false needs or levies responsibility on the supplier.

When your desires are fulfilled, even at the expense of the environment, the laborer, and those who do not share your desire, how can I expect you to recognize the failings of the system and rise in protest? This is my dilemma, and my challenge. Capitalism will never show itself as a failure because its disguise of success is easily manufactured and its truths are easily hidden from the underwhelmed. Eventually its victims rise to the dismay and surprise of the profiteers, and the struggle becomes that of the a people demonized as unpatriotic by those who fail to recognize their own support of oppression through their apathy towards the affairs of the state and it's endorsement of the inhumanity within its borders as well as its imperialistic enforcement of those conditions beyond its borders.