Comment Great! (Score 1) 1174
Capitalism is GREAT for everyone. Sure there are people in the top 2% who are making out like bandits. But without capitalism you would be either...
a) Dead. Without capitalism there would be far, far fewer people on the planet right now. It is capitalism and the economic incentives therein that have driven the innovation and development that make it possible for a billions of people to live on this planet.
or...
b) Starving and miserable - assuming you were one of the "lucky" few who were alive. Remember things "before" capitalism. War, hunger, disease, suffering... ah, the good old days. With out capitalism you would be struggling just to live day to day. There would be no computers, cars, etc., etc., the list goes on and on.
Thanks to our capitalist system an average working American lives far better (and longer) than any one, and I do mean anyone, that lived 300 years ago.
Sure capitalism is unfair (if it were "fair" it wouldn't be capitalism.) But have some prospective here... just because you have to work a 40 hour (or more!) work week, and don't have as much money as Bill Gates, doesn't mean that you are getting screwed by the system.
a) Dead. Without capitalism there would be far, far fewer people on the planet right now. It is capitalism and the economic incentives therein that have driven the innovation and development that make it possible for a billions of people to live on this planet.
or...
b) Starving and miserable - assuming you were one of the "lucky" few who were alive. Remember things "before" capitalism. War, hunger, disease, suffering... ah, the good old days. With out capitalism you would be struggling just to live day to day. There would be no computers, cars, etc., etc., the list goes on and on.
Thanks to our capitalist system an average working American lives far better (and longer) than any one, and I do mean anyone, that lived 300 years ago.
Sure capitalism is unfair (if it were "fair" it wouldn't be capitalism.) But have some prospective here... just because you have to work a 40 hour (or more!) work week, and don't have as much money as Bill Gates, doesn't mean that you are getting screwed by the system.
