Anti-Capitalist Sentiment (with some morality)

[OngBonga]

So basically capitalism and communism both suck, largely for the same reason. Greed.

I'd probably hate whatever system was in place.

[wufwugy]

So basically capitalism and communism both suck, largely for the same reason. Greed.

Where would you get that idea? Capitalism is amazing. It's the reason why cars exist. It's why I can eat $1 sandwiches, watch films made in Denmark, and tell you how awesome capitalism is through this series of tubes.

Without capitalism, the production, distribution, and innovation of products and services wouldn't be a thing. Even what people think is the greatest universal good -- technology -- would be unheard of if not for the mechanism by which technology is reimagined, packaged, and dispersed, rinse and repeat. Without capitalism, you would not have a computer, you wouldn't have daily weed, you would most likely be hungry most of the time, you would either be working from sun up to sun down or living in dirt, and you'd most likely wipe your ass with your hand. Every song you ever liked, every movie you ever liked, every time you read a book to a lamp, every time you went someplace with a different climate and different people, every time you took a hot shower, every time you jacked off to pictures and videos of hot naked women, all would have never come to pass without capitalism.

I'd probably hate whatever system was in place.

Listen to me and you won't have to.

[MadMojoMonkey]

Where would you get that idea? Capitalism is amazing. It's the reason why cars exist. It's why I can eat $1 sandwiches, watch films made in Denmark, and tell you how awesome capitalism is through this series of tubes.

Without capitalism, the production, distribution, and innovation of products and services wouldn't be a thing. Even what people think is the greatest universal good -- technology -- would be unheard of if not for the mechanism by which technology is reimagined, packaged, and dispersed, rinse and repeat. Without capitalism, you would not have a computer, you wouldn't have daily weed, you would most likely be hungry most of the time, you would either be working from sun up to sun down or living in dirt, and you'd most likely wipe your ass with your hand. Every song you ever liked, every movie you ever liked, every time you read a book to a lamp, every time you went someplace with a different climate and different people, every time you took a hot shower, every time you jacked off to pictures and videos of hot naked women, all would have never come to pass without capitalism.

Drinking your own Kool-Aid a bit much?

Nothing on that kind of pedestal is going to live up to the elevation.

[wufwugy]

Drinking your own Kool-Aid a bit much?

Nothing on that kind of pedestal is going to live up to the elevation.

This isn't guesswork. The field of economics has long since come to the same conclusion. Economics is the study of how resources are produced, distributed, and consumed. Market capitalism is the paradigm by which the modern world has produced, distributed, and consumed resources. If you were to ask an economist who specializes in economic history, he would tell you the world of consumer products we have today emerged from market capitalism and that if instead the paradigm had been any of the other popular paradigms, there is no way to say that the same results would have come and it is likely the results would have been far less productive.