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Showing Original Post only (View all)10 Reasons to Hate Capitalism [View all]
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10. Capitalist corporations suffer from a personality disorder characterized by enduring antisocial behavior, diminished empathy and remorse, and are rewarded by shareholders for acting that way. If corporations could be sent to a criminal psychologists office theyd be diagnosed as psychopaths and locked away forever.
9. Capitalism encourages greed. But greed is only good for capitalists. For normal people it is anti-social and soul destroying, not to mention very bad for our communities, which rely on altruism, compassion and a generalized concern for others.
8. Capitalism is a system of minority privilege and class rule based on the private ownership of means of livelihood. This gives a few rich people the power to buy and sell jobs, which means they can build or destroy entire communities that depend on those jobs.
7. Capitalists praise freedom and individualism, but they destroy freedom and individualism for everyone but themselves. The vast majority of us who work for a living are daily asked to uncritically follow orders, to act as if we are machines, and limit our creativity to what profits our bosses.
9. Capitalism encourages greed. But greed is only good for capitalists. For normal people it is anti-social and soul destroying, not to mention very bad for our communities, which rely on altruism, compassion and a generalized concern for others.
8. Capitalism is a system of minority privilege and class rule based on the private ownership of means of livelihood. This gives a few rich people the power to buy and sell jobs, which means they can build or destroy entire communities that depend on those jobs.
7. Capitalists praise freedom and individualism, but they destroy freedom and individualism for everyone but themselves. The vast majority of us who work for a living are daily asked to uncritically follow orders, to act as if we are machines, and limit our creativity to what profits our bosses.
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Yes, and neighborhood cooperatives operate differently from State-Run businesses
brooklynite
Sep 2014
#111
It's entrepreneurial capitalism as opposed to institutional, corporate, oligarchic types.
immoderate
Sep 2014
#105
I also favor moving in that direction while we try to figure something else out.
ZombieHorde
Sep 2014
#73
Mondragon Corp. is a Cooperative-started up in 1956 in Basque Region and is very successful today
2banon
Sep 2014
#104
Hybrid socialist capitalist system such as we see in enlightned social democracies (we had it in the
grahamhgreen
Sep 2014
#166
Capitalism for high competition industries (like a bunch of shoe stores) socialize anything that
grahamhgreen
Sep 2014
#205
Really man? Show us in your wiki links anything that remotely resembles what you said:
wyldwolf
Sep 2014
#129
Did you link(s) mention Dodd Frank? This is a prime example of you avoiding the conversation
wyldwolf
Sep 2014
#134
but YOU quoted links that purported to support your position and now you refuse to quote them
wyldwolf
Sep 2014
#138
that says nothing resembling what you said. Let me guess... you know what the writer meant to write.
wyldwolf
Sep 2014
#146
how about we stick to the subject (I don't care about social democrats in the EU)
wyldwolf
Sep 2014
#157
Excuse me jumping in here. It's hard to find the original in this subthread. Some questions:
freshwest
Sep 2014
#183
The general trajectory has not been towards increased regulation since the 80's
BlindTiresias
Sep 2014
#188
No that is a continuation of my statement that capitalism trends towards de-regulation?
BlindTiresias
Sep 2014
#191
where else have you said "The general trajectory has not been towards increased regulation since...
wyldwolf
Sep 2014
#194
Considering how successful my wife has been in her business I think I did Marry it
wyldwolf
Sep 2014
#93
“The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.” ― Voltaire
Tierra_y_Libertad
Sep 2014
#12
what you're doing is refusing to accept people might actually LIKE capitalism...
wyldwolf
Sep 2014
#127
If you call 'winning' changing the topic and ignoring points every time he was in a corner...
wyldwolf
Sep 2014
#185
If you want to claim that anything that is good is a benefit, than everything that is bad is damage
Taitertots
Sep 2014
#115
I'm in favor of socialism. Under socialism we'd have single payer and colleges and universities
Louisiana1976
Sep 2014
#38
Without capitalism, there would be no righteous critiques of capitalism
BeyondGeography
Sep 2014
#59
I am constantly amazed at how the worker-ownership silver bullet appears invisible to lefties ...
99th_Monkey
Sep 2014
#106
Hey! My wife works for one of those worker-owned co-ops....it's called a Wall Street law firm.
brooklynite
Sep 2014
#162
Unrestrained, unbridled growth at the expense of everything else equals cancer.
kairos12
Sep 2014
#79