(January 20, 2022 at 7:02 am)Jehanne Wrote:(January 20, 2022 at 6:33 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: The chief problem with capitalism seems to me to be resource control and allocation. The resources are there - there exists enough food and material that no one in the world needs to be hungry or homeless or uneducated. But when resources are owned and doled out in a manner that ensures shareholders will he happy and corporate profits protected and enhanced, then misery is bound to follow.
It works kinda like this: Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, buy the pond, tell him he can't have the fish but he can fish for you and you'll sell the fish and give him a very small percentage and he'll say things like, 'I'm hungry' and 'My teeth hurt'.
Boru
No, he will organize with his fellow fishermen and overthrow you.
Right, because that happens so often these days. What he'll do is organize with his fellow fisherman and they'll all refuse to fish until the owner of the pond agrees to increase their starvation wages by 1% and sell them oranges at cost +10% to help with the scurvy. This largesse will be paid for by increasing the retail price of fish by 15% and blaming the increase on the fishermen.
Boru
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