In other words, let us pay Atlas to shrug. Let's pay the vampire squids to leave us alone -- once and for all.
I'm not talking about industrial capitalists. I'm not referring to the guys who run companies that make shoes and other useful items. We still need those people. I'm talking about the vampires -- the Wall Streeters, the international bankers, the leveraged buyout guys, the Bain capitalists.
The vampires don't do anything for the economy except drain blood from it. So let's just pay the fanged ones to slink off into that sinister night, off to their castles, far from our villages.
Put them on those islands of affluence that they've been talking about. Give them hidden estates. Give them vaults filled with money, enough to swim in, as in the Scrooge McDuck comics. Ship in the classiest of hookers, the finest of foods. Golden toothbrushes. Silver-bound editions of Ayn Rand. Anything they want.
They may enjoy this life of utter privilege and decadence as long as they abide by the rules: They may never again participate in any way with the real economy. They may never again have anything to do with the political process. They may never again assail us with their hateful faces or their foolish opinions. The vampires must stick to their own kind -- forever.
Obviously, no-one can accuse me of fomenting class warfare, since I propose giving the uppermost classes everything they could possibly want. I just want them to go away.
As long as they remain hidden in their own world, they won't know what's happening in this one. We can ship them all the pseudo-art that Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons can produce, and we'll let them maintain the belief that this crap is still considered worthwhile. In the meantime, people in the outside world can support the work of real artists.
Granted, there are a few institutions, such as the opera and the symphony orchestra, which may suffer if we segregate the vampires away from the human beings. On the whole, however, I think the benefits of this plan would outweigh the problems.
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Yes. Money and profit are fucking insane, psychotic categories, and I too wish the super-rich would fuck off with their money and leave the rest of us alone. And the fucking bastards know it.
Sadly, Money-to-More-Money, or M-M' as Marx called it, needs a bit of Commodity in the middle - that's us, being made to eat shit. The vampires today are in a stronger position than the money-lenders of yore, when money-lending was peripheral.
Some purple words from Guy Debord: "One cannot abstractly contrast the spectacle to actual social activity: such a division is itself divided. The spectacle which inverts the real is in fact produced. Lived reality is materially invaded by the contemplation of the spectacle while simultaneously absorbing the spectacular order, giving it positive cohesiveness. Objective reality is present on both sides."
And getting purpler still: "The spectacle subjugates living men to itself to the extent that the economy has totally subjugated them."
As well as money-lenders, don't forget the insurance and assurance subspecies of vampire! :)
Gotta wonder how much of the 'real' economy, i.e. not financial services or gambling, is accounted for by drugs, weapons, and the sex business.
It can't go on for much longer like this...
i can only agree. a pathological system. But you have to admit its cool to watch a system totally self destruct out of the greed of its elite!
Harry
lol, I agree! I've long advocated Islands for the fucktard Libertarians. Let them physically hack out and pave their own roads and live out their Lord of the Flies idyllic fantasy with NO help from anyone.
Your idea of subsidizing them is hilarious. Libertarian welfare.
Lovely ideas all, but at the end of the day, what are vampires but walking leeches?
Burn them off, cover them in salt, and expose them to sunlight.
Don't coddle them, destroy them. Theres a helluva lot more of us then there are of them.
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