we're all gonna get cuban healthcare at the hands of those friggin "socialists" at wal mart, who are "for" capitalism when it disbands unions and has half its employees living off food stamps and state provided healthcare, but okay with socialism when they get those food stamps back from their employees... oh bastions of glory! capitalism! because YAY!!! really??
Capitalism is an economic system not a method of governing. Well, until it builds enough wealth that the result is the negation of any type of government. So in Kenya we see capitalism degraded into a kleptocracy. In America we see capitalism hasn't quite fallen that far but due to the ability to buy an election we're closing in on a Corpatocracy.
It's only a bribe if you believe in socialism's ability for the government to collect money and provide services therefore to pay employees. If everyone and everything is a capitalist then barter and bid would be happening at all turns. Including at the individual level. Again why this is a good example of a system that's capitalistic but degraded in barberism.
"Rule of Law" - The rule for a capitalist system is barter and trade. If you're going to be fair you need an external agency, typically government, to impose rules and judge the rules and results. The "Rule of Law" is a socialist idea!
Wal-Mart is a great example of funnelling too much money. Walmart doesn't manufacture much it resales. The majority of it's profits are not in the generation of wealth but in the collection of wealth. Walmart is big enough it could start it's own factories and put others out of business. What ends up happening is 'socialism' for the corporation instead of 'socialism' by the government. In the bad parts of both systems there isn't much difference. One just needs to decide which King they perfer.robert said:
Praise be Obama, give him some credit, he's trying
Oh! So its Obama's master plan, he is an expert on the "Chicago Way" and has some close Kenyan advisers he consults
and I thought it was the [url=http://www.constitution.org/eng/magnacar.htm]http://www.constitution.org/eng/magnacar.htm Magna Charta but your saying it was really Marx and Engles idea![/URL]
When a baseball team is losing and they throw in that last pitcher in the 9th inning and he doesn't pull out of the slump is it really his fault the game has lost? Or do the other half dozen pitchers that threw the home runs bear some responsiblity? Afterall they setup the game in it's losing state then handed it to the last guy to try and fix. Asking Obama (or McCain) to fix 30 years of problem in 3 is akin to asking the last pitcher to fix the errors of the first 8 innings.
Ideas of socialism existed and were in use prior to Marx or Engles. They simply provided more formalization. Socialism is the idea of communal ownership. I hope you can name various communial type of societies throughout history. For example, early Christians ran their societies as a communial shared collective. Various African tribes ran by socialism where no one owned but their small hut and all work and rewards were shared within society. Certainly tribal socialism pre-dated Marx or Engles. And if you haven't researced Sparta check it out. I think you'll find socialism at play. Again they didn't call the shared productions and shared rewards socialism that was simply a term that came into play later once the concept was more cohesively formalized.
I think we'd have to agree what wealth is before continuing. I'd argue Walmart allows you to use your wealth more effectively. It doesn't make you wealthier, as in you have no more money to spend than before. So if we're talking wealth of the economy are we talking monetary contributions, such as economists would, or is there some quality of life measure by including goods?
add the gains of 300M customers, companies that sell cheaper goods are increasing the wealth of their customers. Its not a long term smart policy for a country to lose its high skilled manufacturing base, but that has to due with tax, labor & environmental policies of the government
Wealth isn't created, it's accumulated.
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No it doesn't, AMD and Intel create CPUs. They only accumulate wealth when people decide to trade their hard earned dollars for a fancy new piece of silicone. It's not an automatic thing either. People are deciding to buy ARM chips these days instead. And AMDs chips are not as competitive these days and AMD is in fact losing money and are in fact hugely in debt.
... ur election year anger is out of control... glad that red meat crap works on someone... not!!