CORONAVIRUS AS A TEST RUN TO DECELERATION OF THE CAPITALISM ECONOMIC MODEL

from Metaphysical Correspondent · host Patrice Kamins

While with the coronavirus, conspiracy sites speak of end of times or martial law, it is an end of times of a different sort - that of capitalist expansionism and overreach.  The virus is the canary in the mine that hopefully forces us to see that we must change course with our economic practices and regard the delicate balance of life and death that we have so callously denied and destroyed through predatory capitalIsm.

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While with the coronavirus, conspiracy sites speak of end of times or martial law, it is an end of times of a different sort - that of capitalist expansionism and overreach. The virus is the canary in the mine that hopefully forces us to see that we must change course with our economic practices and regard the delicate balance of life and death that we have so callously denied and destroyed through predatory capitalIsm.

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