(July 11, 2015 at 11:05 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: It is like the tobacco companies and what they knew about the effects of their products. In other words, business as usual.
That is the essence of capitalism. It is all about making the most money, no matter what.
I wouldn't say literally money but wealth - Wealth is not just paper money but everything created that has some sort of value, whether it's a tangible product, an idea, a work of art or a service. The idea is to generate wealth because that benefits everyone inside X country and outsiders as well due to international trade. The way I see it, capitalism is good at some things, like allowing individuals to fulfill their potential and making money out of their investment, business and ideas, but it sucks when answering one single question - What to do with people who can't, no matter what, produce more than what they cost?
Generating wealth is a vague concept and it's present in most economic/political ideologies - Socialists want to generate wealth as well, no society can survive without wealth, goods and services - The difference here would be that socialists want a more egalitarian share of resources from scratch while capitalists support the principle that you should privately keep most of your wealth as long as you didn't breach the law and regardless of how much inequality there is.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
