(September 18, 2013 at 10:13 pm)InevitableCheese Wrote: I'm about to move out of this religious philosophy shit, and move into politics. Surely it will hurt my head less.
Before I start my readings, tell me what you guys think the best political system is!
My personal opinion before reading: My mind heads towards socialism and Marxism, but I believe capitalism has been the most successful. Democracy gives great freedoms, but as Churchill said "The strongest argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter."
I live in America, and these people are fucking stupid. I'm sorry if my country pisses you guys off sometimes. If I had things my way, I'd be born in Britain.
I hate the misuse of the word "capitalism". It is falsely defined as a form of government. IT IS NOT. It is simply the action of gaining resources to maintain power. China's communist party has to have money to keep and maintain it's power. It does so by selling cheap crap through slave wages and labor to the rest of the world. Gadaffi was a billionaire who owned stock in GE.
All human ventures, be they political, religious or business, require the same thing to gain power and keep power. MONEY.
Anything that gets too big can become abusive.
I am am not an either/or guy when it comes to economics. I do not want to end the private sector, but I do want to end the abuse of big money which has way to much influence in our political system.
I'd like to see America get back to what it did after WW2 when taxes where much higher on the rich, when we had tons of investment, lower pay gap and virtually dirt cheap higher education.
Libertarians and republicans spew the phrase "less government", and in theory it sounds nice. The problem is the pay gap. If the people who shout this as business owners would give more directly to the worker that "less dependency" could happen.
What we have today because of global corporatism is a race to the bottom and corporate welfare. There IS a redistribution of wealth, but it is going from the bottom to the top.
The correct term to be used is "free market". But even then we don't really have a "free market", we have an extraction market because we are trying to copy the immoral standards of the sweat shops of India and China to compete.
I am for business, when it does the right thing, like the fast food joint Moo Cluck Moo or bulk store Costco. I am not however for the totality of most big business which is nothing more than "fuck you I got mine".
Abuse of power is the issue. Not pro business vs anti business.
