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Demeter

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1. One of the biggest problems facing Capitalism today is Over-Supply
Sat Nov 21, 2015, 09:26 AM
Nov 2015

There are two causes to this problem.

The first is: too many people who would like the products of Capitalist factories cannot purchase them, due to insufficient income. Governments can help rebalance the flow of money so that everyone has enough, or they can buy and distribute the goods where needed.

The second is: there's too many enormous factories that can produce more than the entire global population can consume. They overbuilt, in an excess of capital, greed, and the belief of infinite demand, and their highly automated operations dis-employed their customer base, resulting in point 1 above. They committed economic suicide in their quest for domination.

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