Minimalis Wrote:]Tell that to the slave labor building the toys you like in China...or the dead in Bangladesh. What capitalism does is oppress in the name of efficiency and the beneficiary is always some rich motherfucker who is greedy enough to want to be richer.
Exactly, which is why I hate when people get focused on the word "capitalism" the issue is monopolies of power and abuse of power, and political parties and religion can also be abusive, but so can business. One can go off the rails and oppress or a combo of those can do it, but it still amounts to a monopoly.
I don't want to end all the private sector, but I certainly don't want to compete with China or Bangladesh just to have a big business. The same abuse was committed here in the states in with West Va coal mines. The owners would buy up all the land including housing, buy the gas stations and food stores and pay the workers in company script. By the time the workers paid their bills they were either broke or in dept, so basically they were slaves.
