{"id":1299,"date":"2012-04-27T16:43:49","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T15:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avbp.net\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2012-04-28T00:22:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T23:22:33","slug":"my-new-hobby-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/?p=1299","title":{"rendered":"My new hobby: capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1232207\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 6px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ia.media-imdb.com\/images\/M\/MV5BMjExOTI1NDQ4Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTcwOTIxMw@@._V1._SY317_CR2,0,214,317_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"317\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Well, now I have turned sixty I\u00a0thought\u00a0I\u00a0should\u00a0get a hobby.<\/p>\n<p>Looking around for something intellectually stimulating to work with, fun, something to have an argument about and possibly something useful &#8211; either to make me money or preferably help bring the world more sustainable.<\/p>\n<p>Capitalism: I chose capitalism. I mean, a lot of people praise it as the answer to everything. Some people are calling for its revamping and some are calling it evil.<\/p>\n<p>My initial analysis &#8211; not so deep &#8211; reveals to myself that I do not know what it is. So the first step of this hobby is to find out what capitalism is. When I have done that I can look into various aspects of it to see where in its dna, if anywhere, the evil code is written.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like a fantastic fantasy adventure, a bit like Harry Potter. Harry Potter and the evil capitalists.<\/p>\n<p>This is going to be such fun!<\/p>\n<p>I might start with Micheal Moore&#8217;s film; Capitalism a Love Story. Or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, now I have turned sixty I\u00a0thought\u00a0I\u00a0should\u00a0get a hobby. Looking around for something intellectually stimulating to work with, fun, something to have an argument about and possibly something useful &#8211; either to make me money or preferably help bring the world more sustainable. Capitalism: I chose capitalism. I mean, a lot of people praise it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-a-hobby"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1304,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions\/1304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}