Maybe, just maybe, this is how uncontrolled capitalism ends: as self-destructive greed.
Unquenchable thirst for power, influence and luxury drove people to obtain it by any means necessary, and now that they have it, others fear it threatening their thirst for power, influence and luxury.
The CEO of CBS News resigned on principles that the freedom of the press shall never be abridged. As a member of the fourth estate, CBS News did its job and did so within journalistic standards of professionalism, but someone with power is threatening them. Of course the CEO wasn’t going to buckle; doing that would go against everything journalism stands for. However, the CEO’s bosses don’t care about the integrity of journalism; they care about a merger set to make them even richer. Therefore, they will bend over to someone with more power so they may have the dear leader’s approval for them to be richer. So, yes, the CBS News CEO quit, refusing to allow the free press to no longer be free but for sale to those with power.
I’m sure CBS News’ parent company’s executives and board of directors only care about making more money from the merger because that’s what capitalism runs on: greed, aka, you must keep making money. And now, that greed is going to destroy them if they let it. Integrity, principles and justice will always be more important than wealth, but greed would allow you to justify foregoing all of that for more money, more luxury, more power.
Now, confident he has pulled the rug from under CBS News, this dear leader has now set sights on ABC News with threats of law suits. This is far from new; he’s been doing this from day one. And when he kicked the Associated Press out of the White House, the other news outlets turned their collective backs and acted like they saw nothing, but they were warned then that if they didn’t stand up for one press outlet, they would all fall. So the dominoes are tipping.
If they keep bowing, the cascade will become too great that even the strongest fight too late in the chain will not survive the pressure. And when one right falls, the rest become weaker and weaker until there are no more rights to defend.
With all this greed for wealth, luxury and power all on display, no longer hidden behind marbled walls or gilded doors, the sycophants ooze into the light because even their greed drives them to beg for scraps, just a crumb from that greed pie before none is left. Such unchecked greed will unravel everything until just fragile threads remain.
Just ask good old King Louis and Marie Antoinette how that went for them.
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