Capitalism: The Foundation of Human Life and Morality

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And technology has benefited our lives in numerous way. Like Fidel said it has it's flaws but ultimately it has done far more good than bad. Advances in medicine are just one example how capitalism has helped. I am by no means saying that advances in medicine are only available in capitalist countries, but it is hard to argue that a large portion of those advances don't.

Fidels 'reasoning' goes a little something like this.

Capitalism has flaws because people are imperfect and are greedy, steal, make mistakes.

But under MY system, it wont have flaws.

-A reasonable man would quickly ask: "But if Capitalism is wrong because humans are imperfect, then why are we giving a group of humans near infinite power to rule over us in a monopoly?"

Then an unreasonable man would take that guy to the gulag.

To the OP though, pure capitalism is bad. If you want an example of pure capitalism at work then all you have to do is look at the illegal drug trade. Or really any illegal, underground, or black market trade. Disputes in business in these pure capitalist markets are typically resolved by violence and death.

I'm sorry, but you do realise organised crime and drug dealers only exist because those drugs are made illegal by the government? Without the government, none of these drug wars, etc would even exist.

Because when an industry is made illegal by the government, very few people want to get involved with it because of the risks involved- which naturally creates a void in demand which means higher margins. And if you are some kid growing up in a ghetto/welfare estate (which is caused by the government again), making a few hundred dollars in a day selling drugs is quite appealing to those that have nothing to lose. That's why you get so many outlandish and violent people in drug trade, rather than Joe Shmo businessmen.

Otherwise it would be an Amsterdam coffee shop, rather than some creepy guy in the back of an alley.

But I'm sure you know all this already.