{"id":2089,"date":"2014-04-21T15:59:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T15:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/04\/21\/there-is-a-fundamentalist-belief-by-capitalists\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:48","slug":"there-is-a-fundamentalist-belief-by-capitalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/04\/21\/there-is-a-fundamentalist-belief-by-capitalists\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>There is a fundamentalist belief by capitalists that capital will save the world, and it just isn\u2019t so. Not because of what Marx said about the contradictions of capitalism, because, as I discovered, capital is an end in itself and no more.<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2014\/apr\/13\/occupy-right-capitalism-failed-world-french-economist-thomas-piketty\">Occupy was right: capitalism has failed the world | Books | The Observer<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>So I came across the book by Piketty on capitalism and was blown away. It appears he\u2019s delivered conclusive proof that under capitalism the rich do indeed keep getting richer\u2026<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a fundamentalist belief by capitalists that capital will save the world, and it just isn\u2019t so. Not because of what Marx said about the contradictions of capitalism, because, as I discovered, capital is an end in itself and no more. Occupy was right: capitalism has failed the world | Books | The Observer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/04\/21\/there-is-a-fundamentalist-belief-by-capitalists\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2447,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions\/2447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}