Newspeak

Scary piece from mythofsisyphus.net

An Interview with Orwell

From the Cambridge International Dictionary --

Capitalism -- an economic, political and social system based on private ownership of property, business and industry, and directed towards making the greatest possible profits for successful organizations and people

From the Cambridge American Dictionary --

Capitalism -- an economic system based on private ownership of property and business, with the goal of making the greatest possible profits for the owners

Amazing isn't it? You see the problem. In the rest of the world, capitalism means private ownership where success is financially rewarded. Using America's Newspeak Dictionary, capitalism means private ownership where the OWNERS, and not the company or the employees are the ones entitled to capital, regardless of how badly the business does. Success doesn't even come into play. In America, the owners are entitled to the greatest possible profits, period.

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An Interview with Orwell