Capitalism Gone Awry: Big Oil

This is the first in a new series that will explore why and how overpopulation sometimes ruins parts of capitalistic societies.

Take Big Oil.

I am very mad that I'm having to pay $30 to fill up my wussy car every week while this doofus is getting $400 million just for retiring (from a company that is charging me $30 a week for gas). Um, no. Also, an analyst interviewed on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams (I predict a blog entry on "analysts" in the near future) suggested that consumers have only themselves to blame for rising prices because they are the ones creating the demand. Well, I'm demanding that analyst shut the hell up because it's not like we have any alternatives.

Everyone seems to be blaming everyone else for the sky-high prices, but really it's just because there are too many people on earth. So many, in fact, that we've seemingly become powerless in the face of abuse by certain large corporations that have rendered us completely dependent on the product they supply.

This has been an example of Capitalism Gone Awry.

Since that wasn't light-hearted at all, here's something to lift your spirits from The Gilded Moose. JT pretty much always cracks me up.