{"id":126226,"date":"2015-11-13T06:28:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T12:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=126226"},"modified":"2015-11-13T06:28:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T12:28:43","slug":"guy-fawkes-mask-wearing-anarchists-are-lining-businessmens-pockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=126226","title":{"rendered":"Guy Fawkes Mask-Wearing Anarchists Are Lining Businessmen&#8217;s Pockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/guy-fawkes-mask-wearing-anarchists-are-lining-businessmens-pockets-once-again-capitalism-has-the-a6732926.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have long been toying with a business idea, but never had the time, patience, know-how and, above all, the resolve to do anything with it: the Virtue-Signalling Investment Fund. This fund would invest exclusively in virtue-signalling products &#8211; that is, products which people use to signal a right-on, trendy-leftie view of the world.<\/p>\n<p>It would hold shares in companies making products related to fashionable causes, such as feminism (think of the \u201cThis is what a feminist looks like\u201d T-shirt), environmentalism, identity politics and above all, anti-capitalism.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-capitalism provides the basis for a permanent bull market, which is massive in size and scope. It\u2019s not just the obligatory Che Guevara shirt. There is more anti-capitalist literature on the market than anyone could read in a lifetime, and there are literally thousands of movies and songs with subtle or not-so-subtle anti-market messages. And, of course, there\u2019s anti-capitalist merchandise.<\/p>\n<p>Take the \u2018Anonymous\u2019 masks used on Guy Fawkes Night: You probably knew that Time Warner collects a royalty per mask sold \u2013 but they are not the only ones profiting handsomely from the anti-capitalist gravy train. At least one businessman buys those masks directly from China at a price of \u00a30.22 a piece, and sells them here for \u00a34.20. He says that he makes a profit of \u00a32.60 per mask, which would amount to a staggering margin of 62 per cent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. I have long been toying with a business idea, but never had the time, patience, know-how and, above all, the resolve to do anything with it: the Virtue-Signalling Investment Fund. This fund would invest exclusively in virtue-signalling products &#8211; that is, products which people use to signal a right-on, trendy-leftie view of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126227,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126226\/revisions\/126227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}