Capitalism theory knows only growth. It is silent on when enough is enough. It has no brakes, no way to stop requiring more growth. So it produced commodity saturation, more stuff than people could reasonably want or use. Mountains of trash, misnamed “landfills,” mushroomed. Storage units abounded – so much so that we had people bidding to buy what’s in them because the owners left them behind. People’s homes were jammed with stuff including rooms, closets and garages. People gave away valuable stuff at yard sales and flea markets just to make room for more stuff. Still, we were expected to keep shopping. Many people could no longer buy, buy, buy.
So the capitalist economy suffered multiple and worsening circulatory clots. Money could no longer flow in many places. That is what we saw in capitalism’s last days.
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