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𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐃 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐈𝐍 𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐎𝐍'𝐒 𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐑 While some players enjoy World of Warcraft's competitive raiding scene, there are those who take it a little too far. The raid leader completely crashes out on his team after missing out on a rank 1 parse...

If America was simply a commercial zone for all of its history that was willing to just invite masses purely for expansion, then we wouldn’t have stopped at taking only half of Mexico, only the least populated parts, explicitly because we did not want to have a mass of mixed race people added to our citizenry and population. “It’s the corporations” is a common refrain of many, but it never ends there, never simply ends at “profit motive above all.” Profits, commercial enterprise, are always done with a purpose in mind, to achieve something else. No one makes money purely for the sake of making money. It is always what one can DO with that money that matters. Even if one is fabulously wealthy and is utterly self centered, it never actually just about money for its own sake. It’s either about the status, the social standing which wealth brings, or what one can purchase, enjoy, and experience with that wealth. Even in this kind of greed, the money and making it is not an end in and of itself, it serves a purpose. And many people also conceive of the wealthy as though they aren’t humans, as though they only serve this flat, 2 Dimensional purpose. But many of the wealthy are rich, have pursued it, because just like those who are not wealthy but seek some form of power, they wish to use that wealth to try to shape the world around them to be more like they want it, much as you do the same by throwing your words out into posts online. They just do it with cash. And that’s not to say what they all want is good, far from it. But it is to say that you have to understand that commerce is never its own end for its own sake. If it were, things would honestly be a lot easier. But the wealthy are motivated by political ideals just as much as many of the poor are.