In order for greed to thrive, there has to be some kind of a culture, or the approximation of one, for greed to thrive in. To pretend capitalism is the breeding ground of morality, is to pretend that a television personality is Santa Claus who goes from house to house, and gives things away because he can.

The one thing that all of the TV hosts Friedman liked to play cutesy with shared, was the voyeurism of whether or not Friedman could balance his checkbook or did his wife do it.

Place applause here.

How you can posture that capitalism and greed are both the same moral attribute is patently absurd and beneath contempt.

The graph that shows the increasing growth rate of hunger among children in America can be placed directly over the graph that shows the increasing rate of child suicide. It’s the same graph.

What an amusing coincidence. The study of economics in America is the study of raw power.

How much money do you need. Why are you here.

I am a communist.

I am also an anarchist.

There is no hope that the rich elite can change. There is no hope that capitalism can be rendered relevant to contemporary issues like food for everyone. There is no hope that health care can ever be a right. There is no hope that workers will not be unfairly exploited. There is no hope that when the forests burn anyone in Manhattan will care. There is no hope that African-American infant mortality can be made equitable to white America. America deserves to be burned to the ground.