10 years ago, Formula 1 and Nestlé honcho Peter Brabeck spoke out firmly in favor of the privatization of water; its removal from that collection of things we might consider human rights and its ownership and control in the hands of private banks and corporations. Because they care, of course. But seriously, because he thinks we all need to be 'made aware' that water has a price. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C29_U0Ksao
Brabeck offers us a simple window onto the reality of capitalist economics: The capitalist system is really based in nothing more complex than the enclosure of key sources of common wealth (like money for example, governments and increasingly water), securing illegitimate power.and profit in the hands of a few, rightslessness, vulnerability and subjection in the many.
Brabeck's philosophy is parroted by countless capitalist advocates who argue that private ownership leads to the better management of such resources. But the obvious and entirely contradictory fact is staring us in the face: it simply creates a hierarchy with meritless ownership and profit at the top, rightslessness, vulnerability and subjection at the bottom, and where the vast majority of us are positioned according to how we serve *that* system.
Capitalist advocates rely on being able to say that the market distributes to those who 'earned' or 'deserve' their wealth, but it's clear how utterly contrary to reality such beliefs are. Capitalist economics is simple conquest; it is brutal, deceitful and it is shameless, it is anti-democratic, incompatible with human rights law and its 'intellectual' foundations are submerged in the rot of falsehood and omission. Capitalism is simply criminally depraved and its advocates are either ignorant, having been programmed to equate this horror with 'freedom', or abhorrent.
Private ownership and market exchange are great (albeit troublesome) things. But we need to know where to draw the line. We need to be able to identify that which makes up our common inheritance, securing fairness and merit in society, real democratic economic rights for all and thwarting the privateers and plunderers who, in seeking to take it all up for themselves, create the divided class societies we all struggle under today.
Brabeck is a capitalist and an arch profiteer from what is nothing more than a criminal system. Every material need this man can ever have is met a thousand times over and his position in society ensures he can be under no illusions about how the capitalist economy distributes wealth/opportunity. And yet he argues for an even more precarious existence for the greatest victims of criminal class rule and greater power and profit for the perpetrators. These people really shake my faith in humanity, I hope the rest of you will restore it.
Brabeck offers us a simple window onto the reality of capitalist economics: The capitalist system is really based in nothing more complex than the enclosure of key sources of common wealth (like money for example, governments and increasingly water), securing illegitimate power.and profit in the hands of a few, rightslessness, vulnerability and subjection in the many.
Brabeck's philosophy is parroted by countless capitalist advocates who argue that private ownership leads to the better management of such resources. But the obvious and entirely contradictory fact is staring us in the face: it simply creates a hierarchy with meritless ownership and profit at the top, rightslessness, vulnerability and subjection at the bottom, and where the vast majority of us are positioned according to how we serve *that* system.
Capitalist advocates rely on being able to say that the market distributes to those who 'earned' or 'deserve' their wealth, but it's clear how utterly contrary to reality such beliefs are. Capitalist economics is simple conquest; it is brutal, deceitful and it is shameless, it is anti-democratic, incompatible with human rights law and its 'intellectual' foundations are submerged in the rot of falsehood and omission. Capitalism is simply criminally depraved and its advocates are either ignorant, having been programmed to equate this horror with 'freedom', or abhorrent.
Private ownership and market exchange are great (albeit troublesome) things. But we need to know where to draw the line. We need to be able to identify that which makes up our common inheritance, securing fairness and merit in society, real democratic economic rights for all and thwarting the privateers and plunderers who, in seeking to take it all up for themselves, create the divided class societies we all struggle under today.
Brabeck is a capitalist and an arch profiteer from what is nothing more than a criminal system. Every material need this man can ever have is met a thousand times over and his position in society ensures he can be under no illusions about how the capitalist economy distributes wealth/opportunity. And yet he argues for an even more precarious existence for the greatest victims of criminal class rule and greater power and profit for the perpetrators. These people really shake my faith in humanity, I hope the rest of you will restore it.
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