THE EXPLOSIVE EFFECTS OF THE SEARCH FOR PROFIT

GLOBALIZATION MEANS THAT MILLIONS LOSE LAND AND THAT  SOCIAL TIES AND SACRED BELIEFS ARE SHATTERED.

Buying stuff is all that replaces them, on condition of being among the fortunate who can afford to.   

It speed makes the transformation still more violent. Can one be surprised at a nihilism and turn to strongmen that in Europe, the United States, the Middle East, India (...) is basically the same?

"A global anti-elite surge could carry Trump to victory," op.ed, The New York Times, 2019 / Darren Hauck, Getty Images

The innumerable ways in which

 pre-capitalist African and French societies

contained that search 
proves its destructiveness.   

End of this introduction.

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