@georgetakei

The militarists in Japan were given an enormous boost in their empire-building by the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs.

By destroying international trade to shield those responsible for the 1929 financial crash from taxation, Herbert Hoover's "half court tennis" international strategy triggered the fascist dictatorships & empire building that led to WW2.

International trade keeps the peace & sidelines war hawks.

Millionaires in the USA caused a cascade effect that dominoed into world war.

@phaedral @georgetakei

We forget that capitalism isn't a religion or a system of ethics to anyone but billionaires.
https://jacobin.com/2023/01/amartya-sen-development-economics-capitalist-markets-inequality-exploitation

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/03/climate-crisis-on-track-to-destroy-capitalism-warns-allianz-insurer

It's amoral at best & downright evil at worst.
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/10/the-opportunity-costs-of-capitalism/

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/i-was-useful-idiot-capitalism/615031/

Sometimes democracy ameliorates the damage & tries transparency, oversight, & regulation.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/30/capitalism-is-killing-the-planet-its-time-to-stop-buying-into-our-own-destruction

Pursuing a course of action known to end in world war is evil.

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