And, thus, we come to the letter P in the TRIP-Up aide-memoire for the five mechanisms that capitalism uses to kill people and trash the planet.
Recall that T stood for Theft (of economic resources), R for Rent (from the Theft of the Land), I for Interest on debt (from the Theft of The Law) and, now, P.
P stands for Profit: sometimes referred to a Dividends* since Dividends are Profits distributed to Capitalists-as-shareholders ie Thieves.
*(as in 'Capitalism RIP' = Capitalism Rent, Interest, Profits, Rest in Peace or 'Let's get RID of Capitalism = Rent, Interest, Dividends).
So, if the Theft of land provides Rent and of The Law, Interest, what is stolen to provide Profits?
I suggest that the answer is the smorgasborg called (by The Theives) 'Intellectual Property': things like Patents, Business 'Know-how', Proprietry Knowledge, etc.
And now Data on Consumers . . .
This, last, observation related to a succession that I've mused on before:
Data - Information - Knowledge - Understanding - Wisdom
As in:
Drowning in Data
Inundated with Information
Bereft of Knowledge
Desperate for Understanding
Seeking Wisdom
So, capitalism allows the Theft of what God knows and which we seek to dis-cover: Truth.
That intangible (not holdable) reality, Truth, is appropriated (Stolen) by capitalism in order to generate Profits: to the inevitable weakening of The Common Good.
Even to the bizarre extent that life-forms can be Patented (for Profit).
Bizarre!
In a true Co-operative Commonweal, all knowledge is freely given: just as was the case when I was a research chemist and (by invitation: what an honour!) to be a peer-review referee for academic papers submitted to the various Journals of The Chemical Society (later, in a dispicable despoilation, renamed as 'The Royal Society of Chemistry': yuk! A clear case of the words written by the 'winning' side: grrr!).
So, next, the 'Up' part of TRIP-Up.
No more TRIP-Up!
Love, instead!
Recall that T stood for Theft (of economic resources), R for Rent (from the Theft of the Land), I for Interest on debt (from the Theft of The Law) and, now, P.
P stands for Profit: sometimes referred to a Dividends* since Dividends are Profits distributed to Capitalists-as-shareholders ie Thieves.
*(as in 'Capitalism RIP' = Capitalism Rent, Interest, Profits, Rest in Peace or 'Let's get RID of Capitalism = Rent, Interest, Dividends).
So, if the Theft of land provides Rent and of The Law, Interest, what is stolen to provide Profits?
I suggest that the answer is the smorgasborg called (by The Theives) 'Intellectual Property': things like Patents, Business 'Know-how', Proprietry Knowledge, etc.
And now Data on Consumers . . .
This, last, observation related to a succession that I've mused on before:
Data - Information - Knowledge - Understanding - Wisdom
As in:
Drowning in Data
Inundated with Information
Bereft of Knowledge
Desperate for Understanding
Seeking Wisdom
So, capitalism allows the Theft of what God knows and which we seek to dis-cover: Truth.
That intangible (not holdable) reality, Truth, is appropriated (Stolen) by capitalism in order to generate Profits: to the inevitable weakening of The Common Good.
Even to the bizarre extent that life-forms can be Patented (for Profit).
Bizarre!
In a true Co-operative Commonweal, all knowledge is freely given: just as was the case when I was a research chemist and (by invitation: what an honour!) to be a peer-review referee for academic papers submitted to the various Journals of The Chemical Society (later, in a dispicable despoilation, renamed as 'The Royal Society of Chemistry': yuk! A clear case of the words written by the 'winning' side: grrr!).
So, next, the 'Up' part of TRIP-Up.
No more TRIP-Up!
Love, instead!
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