{"id":3137,"date":"2008-05-22T15:40:02","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T22:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3137"},"modified":"2008-05-22T15:34:51","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T22:34:51","slug":"exposed-exposing-exposure-of-capitalisms-inherent-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3137\/exposed-exposing-exposure-of-capitalisms-inherent-blessing\/","title":{"rendered":"Exposed, Exposing & Exposure of Capitalism’s Inherent Blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unchained<\/a> has wrapped up and, by all accounts, done a stand-out job\u00a0exposing Social Media Marketing and the power of the individual.\u00a0 \u00a0I was bummed I could not attend.\u00a0 Funny thing though:\u00a0if you are hungry enough you get fed anyway.\u00a0\u00a0My hunger was sated in seeing how\u00a0a democratic, capitalistic, free economy continues to reveal our greater selves.\u00a0 This past Friday that idea\u00a0was brought home in a powerful, if disjointed, way in the pages of the Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There were three, seemingly unrelated, articles that taken together gave me great joy.\u00a0 From time to time we need to polish our appreciation for the economically empowering era we live in (and sometimes take for granted).<\/p>\n

> Guy Sorman wrote an op-ed piece <\/a>exposing the massive cracks in\u00a0communism and the potential\u00a0for political fall out that stems from\u00a0the\u00a0natural disaster of an earthquake.\u00a0\u00a0The buildings\u00a0whose failures caused the most damage – the schools and the hospitals –\u00a0were those constructed by the state.\u00a0 The graft and corruption that leads to the crushing of school children\u00a0does not go unnoticed by the people.<\/p>\n

So it is with China and with tyrannical regimes: The party is convinced it controls everything. But it is often the unexpected events that reveal fault lines in the system, the hypocrisy of public discourse, and the most unbearable injustices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tyrannical or sublimated, political or economic: the chokepoints of the world are slowly exposed<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

> The second article was a front page celebration of Erin Callan<\/a>, the most powerful woman on Wall Street.\u00a0\u00a0A free economy coupled with a free exchange of ideas is contributing to women taking their place in the most powerful of positions.\u00a0 Even better, in my humble opinion,\u00a0is what Ms. Callan\u00a0has become known for and, one must assume, what helped move her to the very pinnacle of the economic pecking order:<\/p>\n

She aggressively roots out rumors, even while pushing her bosses to disclose more financial information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The open and transparent exposing<\/em> of information\u00a0leads to success.<\/p>\n

> The third article discussed CEO Willie Walsh of British Airways PLC.\u00a0 The company saw a record performance to end the year\u00a0and is paying an annual dividend for the first time in seven years.\u00a0\u00a0The staff will share in Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unchained has wrapped up and, by all accounts, done a stand-out job\u00a0exposing Social Media Marketing and the power of the individual.\u00a0 \u00a0I was bummed I could not attend.\u00a0 Funny thing though:\u00a0if you are hungry enough you get fed anyway.\u00a0\u00a0My hunger was sated in seeing how\u00a0a democratic, capitalistic, free economy continues to reveal our greater selves.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","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":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[84],"class_list":{"0":"post-3137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-disintermediation","7":"tag-capitalism","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15772,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15772\/i-hate-bill-maher\/","url_meta":{"origin":3137,"position":0},"title":"I Hate Bill Maher","author":"Don Reedy, San Diego, CA","date":"March 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I hate Bill Maher...mostly. 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