Sunday, November 20, 2011

The curvature of capitalism


In physics, black hole is known as a finite region of space-time caused by a high concentration of high-density mass inside that creates a gravitational field so powerful that no particle of matter, even photons of light, can escape this region.
The curvature of space-time was studied by Einstein in his theory of General Relativity in 1915.

Let's imagine an elastic surface stretched by its four corners. If we place a small sphere but large mass in the center of the surface, this, by the action of gravity will bend and deform to form a funnel and at the bottom would be the sphere. Any object in the vicinity of the funnel will slide helplessly to the bottom of it.

When socialism and communism are a vague memory in history, only recalled by their excesses, capitalism becomes since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 in the prevailing system in our globalized world.

Since then, capitalism, as the sphere of the simile above, it becomes a black hole from which nothing can escape.

An economic oligarchy concentrating global wealth and whose force of gravity is greed.

An unstoppable force of gravity that drags toward poverty the rest of world. That evicts families without financial resources of their homes because they can not pay their mortgages. That evicts from their land to farmers who occupy them for generations in order to monopolize the means of production. That leads young people to an uncertain future because they can not pay their student loan debts to enter college. No work, no hope...
That speculates on food prices, condemning millions to starve. That speculates on sovereign debt, condemning millions to lose social rights. That makes credit flows difficult, condemning entrepreneurs to reject their projects for lack of funding.

Ultimately, a huge black hole from which nothing and no one escapes. Faced with a social and sustainable economy, a capitalist system whose survival is based on the unequal distribution of wealth, increasingly exacerbated, increasingly greedy and the source of many conflicts that plague our planet. But like a black hole collapses and leads to the creation of new stars and galaxies, perhaps it is close the collapse of capitalism and the birth of a new economic and social model more egalitarian in distribution of wealth, sustainable and respectful on the environment.


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