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Why capitalism fails...
27th December 2011, 01:39
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RE: Why capitalism fails...
Quote:...but isnt that the ultimate goal of capitalism? That one person ultimately becomes the winner...the king...the emperor...the god?

No.
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27th December 2011, 02:09
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(26th December 2011 23:12)Mishka Wrote:  What has succeeded better than Capitalism?

Regulated Capitalism and heavily regulated capitalism.

(26th December 2011 23:13)kılıç_mehmet Wrote:  I don't want to, but I can't stop myself.
It's just integrated into your system, the ever-consumption cycle. To keep it, you need more. I don't know but people don't seem to be ever content with their lives in the USA, and you have a holiday called "thanksgiving". When was really the last time you gave thanks for anything at all?
I'm no fan of unjust taxes, but the people in America seem to have a real antipathy for taxes, I know no one wants to give a portion of their income away..But no one ever stops and thinks, "What can I do for my country and my countrymen" but people rather stop and think, "what can I do to buy myself a wii".
Maybe I'm exaggerating, but this is the general attitude I saw in Americans throughout the course of the years(on the web though, it might not be reliable, but these are the impressions that I got).

It's a general attitude you see on television. Our economic system isn't uncommon in the current world and variations of it exists in the East as well. Most nations are bankrolling on our form of regulated capitalism, for better or worse, and it's only helping them financially.
It's the difference, for example, between China now and China when it was under Chairman Mao's control. The difference is capitalism and that difference is skyrocketing them into a world power.

The reason things in America have beome so broken lately is because the Capitalists corrupted the government that's supposed to be regulating them.
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27th December 2011, 02:43
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Its the golden rule..he who has the gold makes the rule.

You cannot have a fair government under a capitalist system
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27th December 2011, 04:08
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Quote:You cannot have a fair government under a capitalist system


Too true.

Perhaps you'd care to name ONE government in human history which has been consistently fair to everyone? Cool Shades
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27th December 2011, 18:23
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(27th December 2011 04:08)padraic Wrote:  
Quote:You cannot have a fair government under a capitalist system


Too true.

Perhaps you'd care to name ONE government in human history which has been consistently fair to everyone? Cool Shades

None that I know of..maybe Freetown Christianiania.
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