CAPITALISM IS A SCAM/SHAM

[Viva_Daddy]

No Capitalist ever built anything without Labor doing the real work.

[GummyBearz]

1. For the most part

Obviously letting capitalists run wild like we have done since 1980 has got us in a pile of shit. The best answer is capitalism with strong socialist/worker based checks and balances to keep it under control.

[randome]

2. Yet nearly every country on Earth practices some form of it.

Our notion of money is hard-wired into us.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]“If you're not committed to anything, you're just taking up space.”
Gregory Peck, Mirage (1965)[/center][/font][hr]

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

3. Sure. It's a combo of greed, sloth, gluttony.

People who want more than they need, want others to do the work and them to skim off that work, and can never be satisfied.

There's real truth behind the trite saying 'Love of money is the root of all evil.'

[randome]

4. Which is why regulation should be at the root of all solutions.

We're still cowed by the GOP disdaining any solutions, only petulant whining, but I think that's about to change.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen, Anthem (1992)[/center][/font][hr]

[The2ndWheel]

9. Which is what we can never agree about

Who does the regulating, how much regulation, etc. More than that, humans are a limit reducing species. We don't like them. We will find any way around them. Whether it's money, health, or whatever. Humans can't fly, and we can't travel at 50mph. We still physically can't, but we found a way around that. We didn't even have to either.

[marmar]

5. I just think it's reached the end of its useful life .....

..... even it's intellectual "father", Adam Smith, predicted that it would eventually need to be replaced.

[Orsino]

6. There's nothing wrong with capitalism that some socialism can't fix. n/t

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

7. I was just musing on this this morning while working my garden and thinking about

'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'.

Willie Wonka was a capitalist who became incredibly wealthy while he impoverished his entire workforce when he laid them off after finding the 'oompa-loompas', a non-union slave labour force he could exploit while pretending to be some sort of benevolent father figure who 'saved' them by letting them work for him for room and board, and whom he never let leave his factory grounds.

Then, when he decided to retire, did he actually actively seek to find the best possible 'guardian' for his slave labour? Nope, he created some ridiculous random contest in order to drum up even more sales of his candy and place the safety and wellbeing of his captive labour force in the hands of a child.

[Trillo]

8. Maybe -- in regards to your title.

Labor is supreme, even if it's merely hunting for game and gathering berries, or arranging financing for some endeavor. The problem is inequality, it is not necessarily the monetary system that has been gamed by a few.