Turn Away, Turn Away...

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The strangest thing about capitalism as it stands - notwithstanding all the corollaries of climate disaster and world poverty and, well, just about any ill that you can name or even conceive of, is that it just fails on its own terms. Free markets are not free, and most entrepreneurs will fail, not through lack of hard work or even through a lack of decent ideas; but simply because they run out of time and cash in the pursuit of their dreams.

Privilege, luck, and politics, to a very large part, hold sway and ultimate influence over success: whatever that is and however you measure it. The lie to it all is that hard work alone will ensure, nay guarantee, a triumphant elevation to the ranks of the wealthy. Not so. The problem with capitalism - to which, fundamentally, I hold no negative brief - is that it ain't [properly] regulated, and it ain't open to all on the equal basis so vocally touted by [conservative] society.

Wealth, birthright and sundry other [largely] unearned advantages will always favour those who already benefit from those perks of life. Sure, plenty of people do rise from the ranks of the underprivileged to fame and fortune, but so many of their number simply forget their struggles and subsume them in their own egos. There are notable exemptions, and they know who they are, as do the others who give up in the face of apparently insuperable odds...

So, I say to anyone observing the Tory leadership contest here in the UK, who believes that these people have any connection, in any tangible and meaningful sense, with your own lives; please reconsider, and turn away from these useless, self-serving and ultimately destructive individuals once and for all. You will benefit in the long term...

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