wyvern999 has a right to post their opinion expressing hatred of capitalism. The picture is graphic, yes, and the spoiler tag is standard for this forum outside of the disturbing images thread, but the fact that this photo was on the front page of a major newspaper says something in itself; the people who died no longer can speak for themselves, yet their image conveys just how serious this problem that lead to the tragedy is. It's an ugly, disturbing image, but it has to be seen to wake people up to action.
As a socio-economic system, capitalism has as many serious faults as state communism, as feudalism, as theocracy, as dictatorship, as plutocracy, as really any system that gets over-centralized with too much power in the hands of too few people. It's as old as humanity; the powerful take advantage of the "weak", and justify it with w/e their personal brand of relativistic justification may be.
I've been a small business owner, and an employee. I appreciate the system, but I don't defend the extreme tactics and callousness that seem to go hand-in-hand with the rise in size and scope of companies, especially when they deem themselves too big to fail, and too important to not have direct influence in politics for their own benefit, at the expense of workers and consumers.
As far as wyvern999's comment about placing that billboard in front of every stock market? Actually, a good idea. Why? Because this is the twenty first century, and it's about time that we stopped ignoring the Victorian Era/Randian Romanticist business practices of a huge number of companies and their owners. There are too many Kochs in this world, and they are still untouchable it seems, even when their choice of how to conduct their business directly or indirectly leads to tragedies like Dhaka, Bhopal and the frightening decimation of the polar ice caps.
It's funny that we use the internet to post pet shaming pictures, but the idea of posting a picture of horrible consequences to shame the truly awful, disdainful, egomaniacal business people is bad? Okay...let's put a billboard with a picture of a Gates Foundation vaccination project next to it, along with a billboard congratulating Elon Musk for his all-electric car, the Tesla S sedan, getting a Consumer Reports rating of 9.7. It has a 200 mile range, with a base price of an average Lexus, and he has plans for an economy priced car with even better range in the very near future. Capitalists that want to get rich making things that are of good quality, useful and needed still exist, thankfully, and they generally manage not to get anybody killed in the process.
