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I believe that it will play its part for some time to come considering the fact that people are too arrogant to move to a system that actually works and too scared to go back to something we've already done.

Agreed.

"Is capitalism the future?" Isn't that a question that belongs in the, I don't know, 1800s? Or maybe the 1500s?

What happen to the traditional system of doing things the old fashioned way...Sometimes, older is better.

Everyone wants to move foward, but we're kind of reaching a limit you know..

Who the hell let America put nukes in the plates? Seriously?

I just did a whole paper on this. Sociological effects of it, I forsee it as the future as well. At least in America anyway. Though with the way things are headed now who knows ;p

The only way to live in this world. At least it's better than the alternatives that only work on theory. Capitalism perfectly separates the success from the failure.

If you don't work why should you have anything?

what we have now is state capitalism, which is fail. capitalism in a really free market, now that is an interesting idea.

capitalism is both the bane and saviour of this world ask me why tomorrow im to tired right now to give a explanation

I agree with the ones who said someting that makes sense.

Captitalism works for now, but I think eventually the wealth retention and general greed in it will cause too many inbalances for it to stay stable. Though I have no idea what system, if there is one, could be permanent.

Capitalism works as long as idiots don't fuck the system up.

Anarchist
Capitalist
Communist
Corporatist
Fascist
Georgist
Islamic
Laissez-faire
Market socialist
Mercantilist
Protectionist
Socialist
Syndicalist
Third Way

These are the economic systems we have come up with so far. Anyone care to explain how this list of ideas is anything other than full of failure? Sure you have the Laissez-faire system, capitalism and, anarchism but, basically the rest of these systems were discarded for various reasons. The most common reason is that capitalism is the fairest system out of them all. People fear the laissez-faire system because of those "mean ol'e rich people (and a majority of the people) might do something to get rich while the rest of the jerk offs will sit and whine about how "unfair" the system is. Why is the system "unfair" you say? Because these people don't want to work. They don't want to put out effort they would rather siphon resources off society just like the parasite from its host.

It seems like some people are saying that with capitalism, a person only fails if he doesn't work hard. That isn't the case at all.

Capitalism is a horrid beast (albeit a necessary one). The ones who work hard don't get all the money; the people with all the money get the rest of the money, more often than not. Look at Wal-Mart - why is it that Wal-Mart does well? Is it because of good business practices? No, it is because Wal-Mart has the money to purchase large quantity of goods, which allows them to sell the products for less money than someone who has to buy a smaller amount. That sort of thing happens all over the place. "It takes money to make money." If you only have a small amount of money, then it's going to be harder for you to make more money. If there are competitors out there who have a ton of money, it's going to be next to impossible for you to be able to make any money, because the people with money are going to be able to afford to buy better products (or a greater quantity) and purchase advertising to get the word out about their business.

If Sam Walton was starting up a store right now, in the year 2008, he would undoubtedly fail.

To be fair. Wal-mart is like the dark side of capitalism. Ever read any of the thousands of lawsuits failed against wal-mart all the time? Everything from sexism in the world place, racism, human rights violation, environmental violation, fraud, etc,etc. The only reason why a company like wal-mart is even still as large is because the average idiot doesn't give a fuck about those things. Doesn't care about it's union busting practices, doesn't care about how poorly it treats it's workers in other countries like China or Germany, they don't care about the racist or sexist policies, or the fact the company steals from it employees. No, these douche-fags only care about saving ten cents on the paper they use to wipe their ass.

That is why I am for capitalism but, also support laws against such shady business practices.

While extremely large amounts of regulation are bad, total laissez-faire capitalism had a number of problems that simply were not acceptable. Horizontal integration, company towns, child labor. These factors combined to basically allow corporations to indenture their workers indefinitely, force parents to make their children work to pay for artificially heightened prices, and so on..

One can argue against wealth redistribution certainly, but there need to be certain things that simply aren't allowed in a capitalist market. Namely, contracts need to involve an exchange of services, goods, or money for other services, goods, or money and not be contingent upon not being part of a certain organization(so long as the organization is legal), shopping at a certain store, living in a certain building, forcing you children to also work, and so forth.

This will probably brand me as a racist but, A lot of black people stay poor because they feel as if they don't have to work for it because of slavery, that and social conditions. A young black male can choose between illegal activities such as selling drugs, gang activity,etc or they can choose to take the harder route and get an education and earn an honest living. Not to say all of them do this but, a majority of my black co-workers and other agree that many have this mentality of entitlement.

In reality the only people who can help the "poor" are themselves. It is a harsh reality that you can't give something to someone for free and expect them to change. Just like the old saying "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."



I agree 100%. My Utopian dream is a Laissez-faire system but, I don't trust humans enough to allow that system to be put into place. I think people are too stupid and it would lead to some very very bad things. To give you a better idea of what I disapprove of. Remember the old policies of Ford Motor company? In order to work for them, you couldn't drink, smoke, gamble, you had to attend church on Sundays, you can only own ford vehicles (which is still enforced today). They would actually have management come to you home and search to make sure you were staying within the "rules". I disagree with those kinds of policies since I believe once you are not on company time, whatever you do is none of their business. I remember a story a while back that a delivery driver for a grocery store similar to food lion or whatever was fired because his employer found out he cross dressed.

Most of the time, the poor people asking for help aren't asking for handouts that will allow them to not work. Some people go on welfare when they shouldn't, but that comes with every thing - there will always be people who abuse the system, rich or poor.

Often, poor people want help. They want tax-breaks, perhaps, because they can't afford to give as much as people with more money. Even if it's the same percentage, and thus seems fair, it isn't always fair because for some people, losing just 10% of their income is enough to cripple them.

Other things, like foodstamps, are necessary because the prices of things will go up without an increase in wages. You can't really go up to your boss and ask for a raise because milk costs an extra fifty cents per half-gallon, but you can't keep the same sort of lifestyle if your pay stays the same over a couple of months while every piece of food steadily increases in price.

Yet, if they want tax breaks and such then why do they tend to vote for the very people who raise their taxes for more hand out programs? You can look at the voting records of either of the main parties and it is pretty obvious which party raises taxes the most. Anyone who understands economics knows the best way to help the poor is to lower these taxes across the board. Sure, the rich will get a larger portion of money back based on the same percentage but, those people buy things, that money finds it's way into the pockets of the rest of us.

If there politicians really want to generate income they wouldn't raise taxes they would just be more efficient about collecting the billions of unpaid taxes by international companies that have business here. Every year billions go unpaid by international companies and instead of collecting those taxes, the government just raises taxes on the rich and the poor alike thus tightening the noose around our economy even more.