[citation][nom]ta152h[/nom]You read, but you apparently didn't understand.Motivation is the key. There are exceptions, but when you start getting into huge sample sets, as in millions, the exceptions become unimportant.Capitalism works because it understands the nature of man, and motivates him. Communism has failed. Even China has moved away from it.Having a greater population than the United States, and greater resources, yet having half the GNP, is hardly an example of success. In fact, the system collapsed. Do you think it's coincidence that all Communist countries have been poor? Just look at Germany after WW II. West Germany was very wealthy, East Germany was miserable. It's not all coincidence. Reading books is great. But, living life is what matters. In books, even Communism can look OK. In life, it can't.[/citation]
Capitalism is a great idea...but in practice fails also. Coin was developed for taxation. Credits can be traded between barterers, no officially shared credit distributed by a government is required. Capitalism in theory breeds hard work, but in practice breeds greed and the laziness of a select few. Do you think CEOs making millions who retire a short while later, or run off with retirement funds/pensions deserve the fortune created by millions of man hours when they themselves worked for a mere few years? Its a simple concept, enslave the poor uneducated and profit off their labor. Capitalism is the root of all evil because it makes us lust after wealth. Communism itself is bad because it can still distribute wealth as it sees fit. We need to bring honor back to the world, and its good to see the super wealthy realizing this. In a way, they are correcting their evil - the wealth they achieved was by playing fairly amidst the laws of our society. They as individuals cannot be faulted, it is the fault of society for allowing such practice. We are ALL at fault - for our toleration of capitalism, taxation without representation (I speak against high fed taxes all the time, the States should be loaning money to the Fed when required, not vice versa), and for allowing politicians to make more than six figures. I think there needs to be salary caps on government jobs (including perks). That way we'd return power to the people and actually have our representatives REPRESENTING US, and SERVING the people. The senate is just a big social club and needs to be gotten rid of. Return power to the states, and return the state power to the locals. No decision should be made without the consent of the masses through REAL representation. Let our STATES decide where our money goes, and not the Fed. Like I said, the Fed needs to be requesting resources, not the other way around. The next president candidate who vows to drastically cut the power of the Fed and return power to the States is the one I actually go out and vote for. Until then democracy is dead.
Here are some links that helped me understand the crap rot of our real social system. We as citizens need to start lobbying and demand change. If we want to breathe right again and fix our debt slave society then we need to do away with valueless paper money that is not backed by gold, and return power to the people.
Citizens educate yourselves, know thy role, and demand your freedom:
http
/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_currency
http
/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Shock
http
/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund#
http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-globalization_movement
I threw this one in just because I found a lot of the information to be fascinating, and it is relevant to the global distribution of wealth, etc:
http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold
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