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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3333983" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>The elites in a dying culture confuse what the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Polanyi" target="_blank">economist Karl Polanyi</a> calls “real” and “fictitious” commodities. A commodity is a product manufactured for sale. The ecosystem, labor and money, therefore, are not commodities. Once these fictitious commodities are treated as real ones for exploitation and manipulation, Polanyi writes, human society devours itself. Workers become dehumanized cogs. Currency and trade are manipulated by speculators, wreaking havoc with the economy and leading to financial collapse. The natural world is turned into a toxic wasteland. The elites, as the society breaks down, retreat into protected enclaves where they have access to security and services denied to the wider population. They last longer than those outside their gates, but the tsunami of destruction they orchestrate does not spare them. - chris hedges</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 3333983, member: 56035"] The elites in a dying culture confuse what the [URL='https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Polanyi']economist Karl Polanyi[/URL] calls “real” and “fictitious” commodities. A commodity is a product manufactured for sale. The ecosystem, labor and money, therefore, are not commodities. Once these fictitious commodities are treated as real ones for exploitation and manipulation, Polanyi writes, human society devours itself. Workers become dehumanized cogs. Currency and trade are manipulated by speculators, wreaking havoc with the economy and leading to financial collapse. The natural world is turned into a toxic wasteland. The elites, as the society breaks down, retreat into protected enclaves where they have access to security and services denied to the wider population. They last longer than those outside their gates, but the tsunami of destruction they orchestrate does not spare them. - chris hedges [/QUOTE]

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