Right??
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I might also point out Forbesâ list of the best nations in the world to do business.
1: Denmark (Democratic Socialist)
2: New Zealand (Democratic Socialist)
3: Norway (Democratic Socialist)
4: Ireland (Democratic Socialist)
5: Sweden (Democratic Socialist)
6: Finland (Democratic Socialist)
7: Canada
8: Singapore
9: Netherlands (Democratic Socialist)
10: UK
The US is #22 on the list.
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Donât forget the military! No other country has anything quite like Blackwater or Haliburton.
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You mean Academi, formerly Xe, nĂ©e Blackwater. (Itâs like they donât want the attention or somethingâŠ)
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Yes. Lord knows, all of us Americans made a killing on their operations.
(Actually, I did. Through them I made a lot of killings, when I paid taxes that helped to pay for their Iraqi-killing and Afghan-killing adventures.)
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From the one-and-only Janeen Brady, off of her seminal classic Take Your Hat Off When the Flag Goes By! comes the espirit de corporatism that is Free Enterprise.
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We? We who? I sure as hell hope you arenât lumping me up in that we.
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Capitalism has become a dirty word to many young Americans.
I think this is a product of Hollywood and politicians who need to vilify
Something to stir the pot. It is unfortunate. Capitalism has worked for generations and still does. Look at the great organizations within our land, how they employee millions, supply great products, fund the government. They are the goose who laid the golden egg! What would replace them, the government? Give me a break, not a chance. What we have to do is work together to spread the wealth, and the government is not up to the job.
We need to focus on improving and changing corporate governance: Employees, customers, and suppliers need representation on the boards.
And stock holders need more control. In most cases the CEO has stacked the board. I think we can improve the goose if we do not kill it first.
How does capitalism fix climate change?
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âWorkedâ? For whom, pray tell?
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Isnât âwe need to do X and Y and Z but government is not up to the job,â like, changing the subject? Isnât this topic about who should take power in a government office?
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Sshhhh. @Gerard is here to explain political and economic theory to us. Everything is going to be okay.
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Capitalism is only as old as the industrial era. Its predecessors, mercantilism other systems proved insufficient to deal with the surplus and labor issues brought about by the industrial era. So conservatively, itâs not that old- about 300 years, max. In that time, child labor was only abolished in 1938 in the United States. Itâs track record has continued to suck long after employers had to be forced by war and deprivation to let women work, forced by government action to even hire African Americans- much less promote them. At this time in history, there are no known economic incentives to dealing with environmental degradation which are evaluated as external to classical economic considerations of scarcity. The only way to deal with this has been government intervention.
The future? Increasing automation means that one of the number one occupations for men in America- commercial driving and transportation, will disappear practically overnight. The number of professions which cannot be replaced with automation only dwindles with time. We have even developed supercomputers with the ability to derive fundamental scientific laws from observation. Capitalism is not up to the task of dealing with this looming labor problem any more than mercantilism was up to dealing with factories and railroads. A 1099 economy isnât sustainable, no matter what the startups want you to believe. Capitalism is a product of its time, and its time might have long since passed. The issue of employment is not whether it exists, but what the quality of life for the employed is going to look like. Capitalism does not address that concern, not is it fundamentally interested in it.
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Does some candidate other than Sanders want to put employees on corporate boards?
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smells like motor oil* up in here
* astroturfing via bots
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I was smelling copypasta, though I havenât actually found any. Yet.
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I like pasta. @Gerard: Do you like pasta?
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Iâm not young.
I donât believe that unrestrained capitalism is the answer for health care, education, or any of the infrastructure of society. I donât believe itâs good for the environment, or for human health, or for human rights, or for widespsread prosperity.
The only good corporation is a corporation responsible to and answerable to its workers, its customers, its neighbors and its planet, rather than to just the profit motive, its board and its shareholders.
The only good government is one that is responsible to and answerable to its voters, its citizens, its neighbors and its planet, not to the interests of the wealthy.
I donât believe that a person should have to spend the majority of their life laboring for the profit of others, in order to have a place to live, food to eat, clothes to wear, medical care, education, basic freedom and dignity. We as a society work too much and for the wrong reasons. Some people cannot work â because of disabilities, discrimination, or the shifting winds of industry and the need or lack of need for their skills, and the inflexibility our society has at retraining people. As automation increases, thatâs going to become increasingly true.
I honestly think Bernieâs platform isnât what we need to bring us into the future â itâs what we need to drag us kicking and screaming into the present. Once we get there we need to keep going, and transition to a post-capitalist, post-scarcity society instead of continuing to invent scarcity to prop up the obsolete system.
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