Sexual capitalism

14. September 2010 by admin.

As it was intended, capitalism was to be the most liberating form of capital exchange in existence.  With the government leaving most forms of coercion out of the buying process (except in the prohibition of vices and other immoral/dangerous transactions), the value of products and labor was to be determined by the people, prices set not by an official with the threat of violence or monopoly of an entire supply, but by free peoples acting with their own money, determining exactly how much something was to be worth, and whether or not prices would have to be lowered or raised.  Supply and demand–the peoples’ wallets and the democratic votes which they theoretically represented–would guide the market into full production and a new kind of populism, one which rewarded those who benefited their customers most, spurning entrepreneurs who failed to live up to standards of public satisfaction. Read the rest of this entry »

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