“Democratic” Monopoly-Capitalism’s Last Raspy Gasp…
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My feelings about “capitalism” were benign most of my life. Of course, my concept of it was mostly the hard striving business, competing against similar businesses in a generally fair, decently refereed, economy. Although in high school, I had read about Teddy Roosevelt’s trust busting, and as a 20-something consumer, I experienced the chopping up of AT&T.
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My perspective began changing somewhere between the dot com boom, and the 2008 crash. The housing collapse, and stock market crash solidified my current negative perception of capitalism. Ironically, this happened during the high point of my small business’ boom that lasted about four years, or until 2010.
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As millions were losing their jobs in late 2008 and all of 2009, my business was doing better than it ever had. Conversely, I was the same age as my father, 48, when he had the worst couple years of his life, career wise. Dad lost his job during the 1973 oil embargo and recession. At that high point for me, and low point for the country, I started to work on a project to change how we approached the economy, and jobs development.
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Unfortunately and serendipitously, my health gave out within two years of my business reaching its highest, yet…
