'Capitalism and bourgeois morality only coexist with hypocrisy'
The conclusion comes from the writer Luiz Fernando Veríssimo, who in his column this Sunday poses the following question: "What is the point of greed?"; according to him, "triumphant capitalism evokes a kitchen question, that of the point. What is the point at which human greed ceases to be an economic driver and becomes a sin again?"
247 - In his column this Sunday, the 3rd, writer Luiz Fernando Veríssimo compares "triumphant capitalism" to "a matter of cooking, the point." And he asks the following question: "At what point does human greed cease to be an economic driver and become a sin again?"
"In a Brazil rife with scandals, the question arises: where does greed end? When does the mixture go wrong, the sauce burn, and what was meant to be a pudding turn into a disgrace? Some say the market knows when and how to intervene to save bourgeois morality. I mean, the pudding. Of course, for this to work, one must trust that all people are, at heart, social democrats, or capitalists only up to the right point in the cooking process. Or believe that greed can destroy the idea of society while simultaneously hoping that the idea survives in people, like a kind of nostalgic homemade production," says an excerpt from his article.
According to Veríssimo, "ever since capitalism and bourgeois morality were born, they have been constantly fighting. They can only coexist with hypocrisy, which had one of its apotheoses in the Victorian era, invoked by Mrs. Thatcher."
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