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I was watching Kevin O'Leary on CBC News this morning, talking about how it matters little whether the left or the right wins out in any political contest, the only thing that matters is that investors are happy. If people with money to invest aren't happy with a political situation, they walk. While I realize that O'Leary is something of a caricature, billing himself as a soulless capitalist villain missing only the cape waxed mustache, he accurately represents capitalism as an underlying force in the world that forestalls any kind of political growth or development in favor of its own existence.
Investors, in their quest to counteract the limitations placed upon them by governments, have created a Frankenstein monster: a semblance of agency that mocks us each time we vote, write our representatives, or protest our government. Since it is unlikely that capitalism will do the noble thing and throw itself onto the funeral pyre of its creator (as in the novel), we may have to take the Universal Pictures approach and surround the investors and their capitalist monster with torches and pitchforks if we want our opinions and ideas to mean anything.
Investors, in their quest to counteract the limitations placed upon them by governments, have created a Frankenstein monster: a semblance of agency that mocks us each time we vote, write our representatives, or protest our government. Since it is unlikely that capitalism will do the noble thing and throw itself onto the funeral pyre of its creator (as in the novel), we may have to take the Universal Pictures approach and surround the investors and their capitalist monster with torches and pitchforks if we want our opinions and ideas to mean anything.