Posted on 07/05/2025 5:50:09 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Yes, socialism has far too many cheerleaders.
Flag burning America haters. The FREE STUFF crowd. Smash a Trump piñata or burn an America flag and get FREE STUFF! The new Darian Pass “american dream.” Hate the gringos and get lots of free stuff from the communists.
Every healthy society consists of three components: The family, the church and the marketplace.
Government is a parasite.
So instead of “capitalism”, “capitalist?”
True capitalism has never been tried.
Or perhaps “incentive”, or “human nature.” or “common sense?”
We need to stop calling it capitalism. That was originally a pejorative term invented by Karl Marx. A better, and more accurate term is the free market.
One reason can be found in the numerous companies/corporations where the management style unfairly exploits employees in non-management tiers. Unrealistic goals. Overly compressed timelines for tasks. Unpaid overtime (think weekend work). Theft of credit for ideas and execution. Wage compression. Malicious office politics."Old boy networking."
The enemy of capitalism is the Peter Principle. Incompetents rise to the top like poisoned creme in the milk. Those of us without management skills, and know it, try to resist this effect, with varying degrees of success. The problem? Compensation all too often is linked with how many people work for you. This creates an untenable tension.
Consider what is happening in the job market right now. Perfectly capable recent college graduates are finding that there is a brick wall between them and their first real job. Many reasons for that problem: AI, massive layoffs, death spiral of legacy companies, political meddling (think unsustainable minimum wage), and more.
The root of Socialism is "kill out the old rascals, bring in the new rascals, with me at the top." It's not about equality. And you can forget about meritocracy. It's all about ME, ME, ME and the rest of you can go hang.
I'll go and gum my soup now.
Ugh. Terrible
Capitalism supports capital. It’s not that hard.
Or: The guy with the gold makes the rules.
1. What’s mine is mine.
2. What’s yours is negotiable.
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3. The free thinking productive people who disagree with the above must be killed.
It matters not that their efforts support all of human life.
Society is suicidal and most people are effing stupid.
People follow and serve Satan without even realizing that that is what
they are doing.
And Satan is the fount and source of all dysfunction and destruction.
So vote for your favorite murdering idiot.
Case closed. Rant Mode Off.
Sorry folks, I woke up with a blood sugar of 52 this morning.
I will eventually die of starvation or crappy food, in the medical professionals
don’t kill me first.
The food supply is utterly adulterated.
Capitalism is NOT “free market”. Capitalism allows those with more “capital” to control markets
Stop spewing ignorant nonsense. It is what it is.
And spare me your high-falutin’ indignant platitudes telling me I’m wrong. Being educated shouldn’t be condemned in an intelligent discussion.
Horse race? In the TOTALITARIAN CUP it’s Mohammed on the inside, Marx on the outside. At the wire it Mohammed by a head. They’re both a pile of horse crap. They stink too.
bttt
The principles of capitalism are like the physics of an economy.
Physics provides an understanding of the material world. You may not like the law of gravity, but at a minimum, you better recognize its existence. You can defy it (airplanes do that every day), but if you’re designing and flying airplanes, understanding and respecting the law of gravity (and the other laws of physics) is necessary if you don’t want to crash and burn.
Similarly, you may not like the law of supply and demand, but if you’re going to poke around in the world of economics, you better appreciate and take into account that law (and the other principles of the market) or things can crash and burn in that venue as well. Just ask the Venezueleans or the North Koreans.
So in that sense the bases of capitalism are just a recognition of economic reality, as opposed to the economic fantasies of socialism or communism. Those economic realities can be manipulated, perhaps for evil (as can the realities of the physical world), but they’re still hard realities.
“Capitalism” is just a label. Its meaning depends on the opinion of the person using the word. I Think of it more as personal freedom to conduct business and earn a living as one sees fit as long as they don’t violate the “natural law”, generally called out in things like the ten commandments or the two commandments called out by Jesus.
The simplest way of looking at the difference between “capitalism”and “free market” is that capitalism supports monopolies, which tend to create barriers to free markets.
In a “free markets” everyone has access to markets and materials.
That is not necessarily the case in a purely capitalistic system.
With pure capitalism, those with the most capital can create barriers to markets and restrict access to the means of production, as well as influence politics by creating regulation to starve off competition.
The simplest way of looking at the difference between “capitalism”and “free market” is that capitalism supports monopolies, which tend to create barriers to free markets.
In a “free markets” everyone has access to markets and materials.
That is not necessarily the case in a purely capitalistic system.
With pure capitalism, those with the most capital can create barriers to markets and restrict access to the means of production, as well as influence politics by creating regulation to starve off competition.
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