Posted on 08/13/2010 4:48:49 AM PDT by mattstat
Most, with good reason, misremember the quotation. In entirety:
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. —1 Timothy 6:10
And since we have that much, it does no harm to recall the words immediately before: “But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.”
Paul was speaking of the actions of individual men, but he could just have easily meant conglomerations—now corporations, entities which are at once alive, incorporate, and yet not alive. Which, it will be noticed, are the same words we use to describe zombies, the undead. Money itself, and the act of accumulating it, is harmless, neutral; but the love of it, and the concomitant lust for ever greater piles, is the start of pain.
It is here that my sympathies with the Left are strongest. Like them, I dislike the word “capitalism”: a society based on businesses amassing “capital” to create “products” which “consumers” consume. We are content to let these ugly, distasteful words define the foundation of our society?
It’s still worse. ...
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Again, you are seeing what you want to see. I am NOT saying that. I am saying that both capitalism and socialism must ignore some aspects of human nature in order to thrive. A society based purely on capitalism is just as harmful as one base purely on socialism.
A system which has a free market economy is not necessarily driven by avarice, greed, and the grab for power.
Again, I said in "a purely capitalistic" society not a free market society. YOU keep twisting what I say in your mind to try to defend something I am NOT attacking.
Capitalism is another word for free market economy (actually a derogatory term used by Marx and Engels to insult the free market system).
If you are using it another way, just let me know so we are on the same page.
BTW, sorry if I am somehow twisting what you are saying. I don’t mean to be doing that.
Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong....
John O,
Many things that are true are ugly.
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