Sunday, November 15, 2009

Capitalism Sucks?

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  1. AnonymousMay 4, 2010 at 10:20 PM

    Capitalism sucks because it is heartless. It puts the profit motive above all else including the workers' safety and lives. It destroys the environment with no regard for the future. "Free enterprise" is something that a very tiny minority of any country's citizens would ever be able to take advantage of and instead they get taken advantage of by it. Free enterprise = the freedom to exploit those less fortunate than yourself if you are able.

    Anyone who says "Yeah? Well nobody makes you work at the job you have so why not find another one paying better?" is living in some fantasyland where businesses don't collude to keep wages down because in the real world business owners know what the prevailing wage rate is in their area and know that their workers aren't going to be able to find another job doing the same thing for better pay. It's common sense.

    Capitalism sucks because it benefits the wealthy, frequently hereditary ruling elite which amounts to a small sliver of the population and it pisses all over everyone who isn't wealthy. In capitalist countries that claim to have representative democracy (like the U.S.) it is a sick joke, a perversion of democracy because it is nothing but a parlor game for the wealthy ruling elite. The high rollers buy out all the plastic marionette candidates from both hardly-dissimilar parties and let them fight it out because they don't care at that point who wins since they know it will already be someone who is in their pocket.

    And everyone in Congress may as well have their corporate sponsors' names on the back of their suit jackets to show people who they are really working for. In a capitalist country the government is nothing but a committee for running the common affairs of the big business elite. There patently IS NO political party in the U.S. to represent the interests of the average non-wealthy American, the working class, working poor and desperately poor Americans. You have instead the openly bourgeois big business party (Republicans) and the thinly-disguised bourgeois big business party (Democrats).

    Great examples of the government being nothing but eunichs and handmaidens for the ruling class are the Food & Drug Administration, firmly in the pocket of Big Pharma and never afraid to turn a blind eye to dangerous pharmaceuticals being introduced to the market; the Mine Safety & Health Administration which never met an unsafe mine it didn't like and does little more than furrow its brow at companies like Massey Energy; and the Dept. of "Defense", basically the country's energy resource protection force being used as pawns in foreign wars to try to gain as much control as possible over as much of the world's remaining oil and natural gas as possible for their bosses in Exxon-Mobil and Chevron-Texaco.


    Any system that is designed around what's best for the uppermost 5% of the population on the backs of the remaining 95% is horseshit and is not long for this world once the masses who are being taken advantage of become conscious.

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  2. QUALITY STOCKS UNDER 5 DOLLARSMay 25, 2013 at 12:28 AM

    The problem with the free enterprise is that those who benefit most by it seem to think if its good for me than it must be good for everyone else. Communism gained a foothold in different countries around the world not because it could provide its people with a better economic system than capitalism but because the people in those countries lost faith in the free market system because so much of the wealth created by it went to a small handful of slite business men. One could say communism had its roots in capitalism.

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