{"id":3504,"date":"2018-09-12T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=3504"},"modified":"2018-09-12T15:31:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T19:31:59","slug":"capitalism-is-doomed-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/09\/12\/capitalism-is-doomed-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitalism is doomed right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3503\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3503\" style=\"width: 296px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aw091218-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3503\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aw091218-4-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"Capitalism is doomed right?\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aw091218-4-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aw091218-4-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aw091218-4.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Capitalism is doomed right?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Will capitalism last in its current form forever? Unlikely, given that in terms of human history it&#8217;s relatively new. So, yes, it&#8217;s doomed&#8230; but only in the same sense that we&#8217;re all doomed. I will not, alas!, stand forever. Even the famous walls: The Great Wall, Hadrian&#8217;s Wall, the Wailing Wall&#8230; will eventually be gone, and new walls built. For a more detailed criticism of the current state of capitalism, I recommend the recent instant classic <em>Capital in the Twenty-First Century<\/em>, by Thomas Piketty, currently on reserve at O&#8217;Neill, and in the general collection at the Law Library: HB501 .P43613 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will capitalism last in its current form forever? Unlikely, given that in terms of human history it&#8217;s relatively new. So, yes, it&#8217;s doomed&#8230; but only in the same sense that we&#8217;re all doomed. I will not, alas!, stand forever. Even the famous walls: The Great Wall, Hadrian&#8217;s Wall, the Wailing Wall&#8230; will eventually be gone, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/09\/12\/capitalism-is-doomed-right\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Capitalism is doomed right?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[330],"class_list":["post-3504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-capitalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3507,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions\/3507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}