@OmSigDAVID,
OmSigDAVID wrote:
Free Enterprize is Nature 's Way:
the Law of Supply & Demand in free operation !
But, thats the problem! Nature sucks! =)
If nature was a nice person we wouldnt be trying to transform the world into a dead rock covered in industrial complexes and an eternal, smokey night.
OmSigDAVID wrote:
Well, the point is to make the MOST of human life,
by having as much FUN and freedom
as we POSSIBLY can cram into our years n decades.
Its easier to do this then people arent trying to kill you to steal your stuff because they have nothing =)
Cyracuz wrote:
Would you say that the way we conduct our global affairs through capitalism is morally justifiable?
I think no.
I doesnt even make sense, so I wont bother to analyze the morality of the thing. It needs changing either way.
Cyracuz wrote:
and there are ways to circumvent any government, because there is no global government. So our precious moral values have for some reason become a lesser priority than feeding consumerism.
There is a global government, it just doesnt works. Simply because people look to other nations and see people different from themselves. I think that the admission of that we are all humans and should be all on the same side, and not competing against each other, is a necessary step in our evolution. I mean, the formation of a global country.
I think we are already walking towards that, in the european union for example. People say the european union wont become a single government due to the cultural differences, but, then people and stuff circulate freely between countries, culture will inevitably mix up and differences will be lessened. Perhaps in some 50 or 100 years...
Fil Albuquerque wrote:
...I must get a farm close to "nowhere" in the map, preferably in an inaccessible rocky island with no beaches and hard access by boat...and no airport to...
Then I can see the price on cereal go up and not worry about it when I get old...
The greedy corporations would parachute mercenaries into your island and steal all your stuff!
Fil Albuquerque wrote:
The problem seams to be that Capitalism support itself through Growth and Development when the Planet has Limited Resources...it cannot go on forever !
Yes, it can! We just need to figure out cold fusion and faster-than-light travel before this ball of mud pops! =)
No, really, I think we should be researching more into those things. Im personally counting in cold fusion to save us from the otherwise inevitable climatic/nuclear apocalipse.
cicerone imposter wrote:
And what is your "different approach?" Good luck; you ain't gonna find any.
You can just tweak laws, actually.
cicerone imposter wrote:
Not all wealth are created equal; some have earned it honestly with hard work.
Honesty and hard work are relative. For example, in order to work you must have something to work upon, or someone else must that is paying you. What right do you or that person have upon that thing? Ok, maybe you bought it, but where did the person that sold to you get that right?
See where I am going? Ultimately no one can truly justify ownership over anything, we just make and hold agreements. Thats why then these agreements are broken (In war or revolution, for example) things are simply stolen and its considered legal afteryards.
Cyracuz wrote:
It is a fact that some nations are locked in perpetual poverty because of the conduct of those who had everything, because they simply came and took it.
It was called imperialism, and ever since those times, the imbalances that were created have been entrenched by trade agreements forced on those who had no real choice in the matter.
I wouldnt say they are locked in perpetual poverty, they simply dont know how to get out of it. Poor nations are plagued with the corruption of their government, which makes it incapable of solving the problems and easily exploitable by external powers, and the general ignorance of the populace, which makes it unable to overthrown the corrupt government. I think that if poor countries suddenly had their population replaced by greedy and educated capitalists, they would get out of the mud very fast.
