Hillary or Trump: Which of These is the Lesser of Two Evils?

[abaris]

At what point did we abandon this purpose and become an ever widening polarization between capitalists and labor?  I marvel at people who call themselves capitalists when they don't have a drop of capital.

No matter what ideals we started out with, somewhere along the way we sold our car for gas money.

I draw the line at the fall of the communist block. Capitalism no longer felt the need of presenting a smiling face, since there wasn't an opposing model anymore. For me, consiously having lived through these years, it's rather obvious. Regarding humans as some sort of expendable commodity has taken off after 1989. Maybe there were some other contributing factors, such as increasing globalization, but the 90ies were the first real decade of valuating individuals by how much money they were able to make. To be fair, it already started in the mid to late 80ies, but it only became glaringly obvious later on.