Extinction-Level Capitalism (opens in new tab)

Scratching my head over some punctuation and phrasing… what’s with the multiple sequential commas in the beginning? I also don’t know the author… are they ESL?

Is the capitalism in the room with us now?

Anything larger than a mom and pop shop has some sort of government overreach and control and manipulation pulling at its strings. The massive market power of Amazon, Microsoft, Walmart, Google, is only in small part due to capitalism, the rest is government checks, bailouts, contracts and regulatory control capture through these expensive lobbying. Capitalism died a long time ago and all we have today is it's shambling corpse of crony-capitalism.

unfortunately this is the aftermath effects of late stage capitalism post-bloom. we will only see more of this as the western world falls apart. all empires crumble eventually, inevitably