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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCapitalism is basically a predatory system-is the human race that retarded in their growth?
Or have you been so gaslighted by those who benefit from the system that you can not see it or are we as a life form just part of the jungle? I challenge you to think about this analytically without emotion.
BannonsLiver
(20,859 posts)Stargazer99
(3,563 posts)BannonsLiver
(20,859 posts)Magoo48
(6,739 posts)Bonx
(2,353 posts)Capitalism rocks.
Stargazer99
(3,563 posts)Bonx
(2,353 posts)Johnny2X2X
(24,438 posts)Capitalism has still fed more hungry mouths and put the roofs over more heads than any other system.
I think what people argue about in the US is should we have regulated and controlled capitlism or should we have unregulated and corrupt capitalism.
Happy Hoosier
(9,628 posts)I think many of us have criticisms of unbridled capitalism, but many others recognize the benefits of blended system. What are you proposing? Any details?
Stargazer99
(3,563 posts)Yes maybe controlled capitalism would be the best of both worlds but I do not see the system as it is now providing positive out come for the ones that do not have capital and it may eventually corrupt the system and destroy the nation from the inside
brooklynite
(96,882 posts)You're criticizing capitalism in general, not in it's unregulated form.
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