When buyers no longer trust

                                    
                                        
an accepted method for doing business and   
therefore initiate a different method for
doing business and/or revert to an older    
method for doing business, that accepted    
method weakens and may eventually evap-  
orate in the face of the challenges to it;
and those who attempt to sustain it (i. e.,
to sustain that which is unsustainable) will   
find they have sorely erred and will reap  
the opprobrium of those buyers who no   
longer trust the accepted method for 
doing business.                                    
                                          
This was the point of my simplistic equation:
capitalism = something to sell + someone    
to buy it.  That point, however, was totally    
obfuscated by another's need to interpose  
a refined definition of capitalism.             
                                           
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The above refers to recent comments in a long  
comment stream at K. Silem Mohammad's 
Lime Tree flowing from his Dale Smith . . .
Flarf post.                                  
                                               
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Due to Earth's limited resources and to a  
misguided globalism, it is possible that a
paradigm shift is underway.  Civilization  
as we have known it is passing.                                                     
                                        
                                        
                                        
mr00014