Correction: you're an amoral capitalist -- not "immoral," but "amoral," as in "without reference to morality."
When long-established California Japanese farmer families were interned in WWII, many "capitalist" farmers such as yourself snapped up their seized farmland at a song and went on your merry amoral way.
Meanwhile, other capitalist farmers, such as a few I knew personally, took those government-seized operations, ran them while those families and neighbors were interned during the war, and after the war, those families' farmland and operations were waiting for them; these capitalists, who were quiet ordinary and very imperfect Christians, did the right thing and returned the operationsn to the farmers/friends/neighbors who built them. These capitalists, at least one of whom became quite wealthy through self-made business over his life, were CAPITALISTS as much as you at least as successful (if not quite a bit more), busineswise, as you.
You are among the very sad conservatives who mistake moral compassion and love for weakness and liberalism.
My bible states clearly: "God is love." Where there is an absence of God, there is an absence of love. Those of us who want to bring God back to America, must engage in love. Love inspires loyalty, love inspires commitment.
Liberalism inspires and is powered by anger, envy, covetousness, and self-pity. All the things my bible warns against.
The amoral capitalist is a bereft thing.
Well said.
“The amoral capitalist is a bereft thing.”
So that what you are saying is that it is acceptable for one country to try to demand that the companies of another country run their businesses in a certain manner?
That reeks of imperialism to me. Why do you think that this country is so hated throughout the world? We are continually trying to impose our will upon others and be the world’s ‘morality’ policemen.
Why was there outrage on FR when communist China tried to tell this country that we had to have more stringent gun laws? For the same reason that China does not like us to tell them how to run their country.
Let’s assume that this country would be successful in making companies in another country change their policies toward their employees. Let’s assume that they would say, “OK, USA, you are correct. We are going to institute a 40-hour work week, eight hours per day with an hour for lunch and two 15-minute breaks, two weeks paid vacation per year. In addition, instead of $2 per month salary we are going to start paying them at USA union wages, i.e., $20 per hour for unskilled labor. However, with the rising cost of production, those 10 million widgets you bought for $1 million last month...the price has risen. It is now going to cost $10 million for 1 million widgets.”
My point is, “Where does the morality stop and common sense start?” Is a 40-hour work-week ‘morally’ acceptable? Says who? Why? Taking into consideration travel-time to and from work, that is more than 1/3 of a person’s life. Is that ‘moral’? Does the bible say that a 40-hour work-week is acceptable?
Try to go out shopping and return home WITHOUT something that says, “Made in China” on the tag. You can’t do it. can you? I look for items that DON’T have a union label.
Are you willing to pay double and/or triple higher prices to assuage your ‘morality’? Oh, you changed your mind? I thought so!