Void,
true co-operation is not to be found under capitalism. Indeed much wasted money and effort is spent by capitalist organisations, each spending millions to bring similar products to the market place and all concerned with one thing, maximising their own profit. Under socialism, r&d would be for bringing products to the market place that would enrich society, not shareholders. Under socialism, desperately ill people would not go wanting of drugs that today are so expensive
as a result of the huge profits the pharmaceutrical companies make out of sick people.
Cartels operate quite openly....take the energy companies as an example. It goes without saying that energy supply should be in common ownership. If it were possible to harness it, private industry would charge us for the very air we breathe----and let those that can't afford to pay die.
Under capitalism, I agree with you, we are all wage slaves. The problem is that the value to society of what you do for a living is not reflected fairly in wage earned. You are right, I deeply resent the millions paid to pop-stars and the like. Obscene.
Only today I read that one Gisele Bundchen, the world's highest paid " supermodel " ( how I detest that title and the fashion industry in toto )is 16th richest woman in the entertainment industry, with an estimated fortune of £92million.......all due to " working " as a clothes-horse! Obscene in the extreme, and whilst the gravy train keeps on rolling along for the likes of her, ordinary people are left competing for the finite number of jobs ( thus ensuring high levels of unemployment ) at whatever terms the man will offer.
I'm glad you admit to having it cushy, lucky you. Good job there are those who will take on the dirty jobs which are not usually as well paid as your friend in sanitation, apparently. In the UK we depend on imigrant workers, frequently exploited, always on low pay, to do the dirty jobs ...cleaning, fruit-picking, hotel work, care of the elderly and such like...the jobs not valued under capitalism.
Freedom is what socialism is about. Freedom to enjoy the necessities of life. Freedom from poverty on the one hand and bloated excess of wealth on the other. Freedom from fear of falling ill and growing old, safe in the knowledge that the state will be there for you. Freedom from being at the mercy of " the man " to put food in your mouth and a roof over your head.
The road is a long one, but sometime in the far off future just maybe we'll get there.
If we don't, then I fear capitalism will have been succeeded by barbarism.
true co-operation is not to be found under capitalism. Indeed much wasted money and effort is spent by capitalist organisations, each spending millions to bring similar products to the market place and all concerned with one thing, maximising their own profit. Under socialism, r&d would be for bringing products to the market place that would enrich society, not shareholders. Under socialism, desperately ill people would not go wanting of drugs that today are so expensive
as a result of the huge profits the pharmaceutrical companies make out of sick people.
Cartels operate quite openly....take the energy companies as an example. It goes without saying that energy supply should be in common ownership. If it were possible to harness it, private industry would charge us for the very air we breathe----and let those that can't afford to pay die.
Under capitalism, I agree with you, we are all wage slaves. The problem is that the value to society of what you do for a living is not reflected fairly in wage earned. You are right, I deeply resent the millions paid to pop-stars and the like. Obscene.
Only today I read that one Gisele Bundchen, the world's highest paid " supermodel " ( how I detest that title and the fashion industry in toto )is 16th richest woman in the entertainment industry, with an estimated fortune of £92million.......all due to " working " as a clothes-horse! Obscene in the extreme, and whilst the gravy train keeps on rolling along for the likes of her, ordinary people are left competing for the finite number of jobs ( thus ensuring high levels of unemployment ) at whatever terms the man will offer.
I'm glad you admit to having it cushy, lucky you. Good job there are those who will take on the dirty jobs which are not usually as well paid as your friend in sanitation, apparently. In the UK we depend on imigrant workers, frequently exploited, always on low pay, to do the dirty jobs ...cleaning, fruit-picking, hotel work, care of the elderly and such like...the jobs not valued under capitalism.
Freedom is what socialism is about. Freedom to enjoy the necessities of life. Freedom from poverty on the one hand and bloated excess of wealth on the other. Freedom from fear of falling ill and growing old, safe in the knowledge that the state will be there for you. Freedom from being at the mercy of " the man " to put food in your mouth and a roof over your head.
The road is a long one, but sometime in the far off future just maybe we'll get there.
If we don't, then I fear capitalism will have been succeeded by barbarism.
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
