@kYRANI,
kYRANI wrote:
I agree here with you criticisms of the people who are driven by pure greed and who are mindless of the damage that they do. Your definition (Webster's) has a couple of magic little words in it.. "free market". If you put in the regulations that you say then you no longer have a free market. What is a free market? It means different things to different people. The greedy see it as meaning do whatever you like, which for them means take all you can and not only give nothing back but **** on the environment and the people all you like. We don't need capitalism. Democracy includes the ability to invest and carry on private businesses etc., BUT democracy means that everyone and everything is properly considered, that what we do must take into account a balance sheet. If we take from the environment to profit then we must put something back and leave it in as close to a pristine condition as we found it in the first place. To have a symbiotic relationship between employee and employers and so on. For democracy to work it must be founded on ethics whereas capitalism knows no ethic. I was in a bank some years ago to get a loan and the bank officer struck up a conversation with me and somehow the question of ethics arose. He kind of looked at me as if I was a simpleton and said something that expressed the notion that business and ethics were not bed partners. I asked him "you want me to pay off the loan without you having to take me to court to get your money out of me". "You're going to pay off the loan aren't you?" he said nervously. So I said to him see you do expect me to behave ethically towards you so why can't you see that ethics and business are partners and only when they are no longer partners does the system fail! He had nothing to say. Capitalism wants a double standard and that can't last.
Free markets are a wonderful idea; but they can never be shown... The same people who were buying the cotton of the South were loaning the Souterners money for slaves, and they took all the profit out of it without ever having to crack a whip on anyone's back, or smell the sweat of any dirty negro...
The reason there are so few family farms is that there is no free market to sell into, and when bankers and middle men take all the profit out of it there is not much left to keep the farmer alive so that government can get its piece... The point is that the word economy means house management, and capitalism as a house has no management... Government should properly manage all that might manage the people without the actions of government... If we do not control events, then they will control us, and capitalism which is a kind word for anarchy rules us which means that in spite of our pretension to democracy, it is people with money sitting in board rooms who are allowed to control our destinies in the effort to control their own against others in other board rooms... We might rejoice at corporate farms because with the control of a corporation which one might have with a handful of guns, one has contol over the food supply, but until the people enter those rooms, and level those guns, the executives will have a strangle hold on our throats...
The fact has long been noted that people think first with their stomachs, and only later with their heads, and corporation own our stomachs, so again, where is the free market???... Industry has its hand in the pocket of government to be sure, but it should be the other way around... If business will be free, then the people will not be free... If Free Enterprise is Good, then that good should be clear to all, and it is not clear, or even possible to find... It is eating the good out of the whole society, destroying the ability of government to defend the people, educate the people, or ensure domestic tranquility... Where is the good in their freedom if it brings only slavery???