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In Reply to: I'd love to know how I could prosper in capitalism without being deceitful, manipulative, authoritarian and nasty posted by Lark on January 12, 19100 at 14:55:34:

: I'd love to know how I could prosper in capitalism without being deceitful, manipulative, authoritarian and nasty. I just cant think it can be done.

I think I would have to know how you define 'prosper' aswell as those other things. But its a strange statement. That chap who invented 'dyson vacuum cleaners' is fairly rich I would guess, and they're good cleaners too! I don't think he needed to be any of those things you mentioned in order to prosper though!

Who are the ones who prosper by being those things? mafiosi maybe? political hacks maybe? corporate ladder chasers maybe? But they are all hangers on, they all need the Mr Dysons and all the honest and productive folk to make their own nastiness possible.

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