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Originally Posted by Terminus
This made me wonder: What, in your opinion, is (or isn't) wrong with capitalism?
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The problem with capitalism is its basis upon the flawed idea that, in a system within which the acquisition of currency serves the singular impetus to work, individuals will continue to undertake such work for the benefit of society rather than to secure fiscal assets for themselves. Under capitalism, movies don't have to be good as long as people will watch them, news doesn't have to be true as long as people will read it, no one has to create anything as long as to profit from the labor of others is possible. Though to participate in these socially poisonous enterprises is far from fulfilling, the sole impetus to work, as previously stated, is capital, and so, in order to survive, the average man must toil away, steadily dehumanized, until his intellect atrophies completely and he returns home from an 8 hour work day believing that his brain needs rest rather than resuscitation, cracking open Twilight or turning on Fox.
An ideal capitalism, wherein every person produces and is compensated to a degree proportionate to their product's quality, would rule. Human nature, however, pollutes the system. The only reason for which capitalism generally receives more flak than say, communism, is that a totally compromised communism can no longer really be called communism, whereas a totally compromised capitalism is still fundamentally capitalism.
Some of the posts in this thread infuriate me, by the way. You people have an opportunity to educate someone, and instead you just come off like pricks who subscribe to leftist philosophies for no reason beyond that to do so is rebellious, and allows you to answer questions like "What's wrong with capitalism?" with stoic Clint Eastwood answers.