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Originally Posted by Sea Demon
I walked around Occupy Sacramento over the weekend. I couldn't believe the signs being carried by many in this mass of human waste:
"Down with Capitalism - Up with Social Justice"
"Don't tell me to get a job...give me one"
And other such nonsense. The one thing I learned watching these people was that they have no idea how jobs are created, or why they're even possible. Jobs come from great thinking and inventive people with the incentive to carry forth an idea. They come from free markets and private sector CAPITALISM.
I wish these occupy leftist idiots would actually do their homework and understand where they get their iphones, mp3 players, desktop computers, PC and XBox games, and blackberry's they seem to love to have. I say grow up fools, bathe yourselves from the idiocy that is Marxism and really educate yourselves. Support those who create jobs and then by golly..work hard and get one yourself. Of course many of these people will also have to clean themselves up. Seeing what I saw at this event, nobody looked very employable. I can't say I could trust anybody out there with so much as showing up on time to empty a trash can.
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Yes Capitalsim is nice for us, even for the protesters you speak of, (dispite their complaints) they live like kings compared to most people in the world.
Unfortunately capitalism only provides us with a good standard of living, because it denies it to somebody else.
For captialsm to work it requires a rich minority and poor majority on a global scale - that is simply how it operates.
Free enterprise is great too, it means anyone 'have have go' but on the flip side its also wide open to exploitation, and boy has it been exploited.
So yes, captialism has shaped the world around us and everything we know and love! I enjoy it as much as the next person as elsewhere people starve to death!
You know if we divided the world's current food supply up equally amongst everyone on the planet we would each get the equivillant of one bowl of rice a day? Now just think about that and how much we eat.... Oh and you BETTER be grateful
The current system we have is simply not sustainable, there is no way mankind will be able to carry on like this for another 50 years, let alone 100, that is an undisputed fact, the only question is are we brave enough to admit it, act and make sacrafices? Hell NO! we just cowardly deny it and continue down the same path of self destruction as we consume our way though the earths limited recources, leaving a huge trail of pollution waste and garbage in our wake. An yes Im as guilty as everyone here.
Also bear in mind the worlds population has almost doubled since the 1970s and it continues to snowball! We no longer have wars, famines and fatal deases on the same scale that we have had though out history. As the population grows, so does the anger and resentment.
Whatever happens something is gonna have to give pretty soon. And im not ashamed to admit it, I am quite scared.
I have a young son and I dont think he is going to grow up to enjoy the same security and freedom we have had.
Captialism has treated me well and so it is with
alot reluctance, that I must acknowlege that it is unstable, unsustainable and rotten to the core
As for an alternative... I just dont think we have one. Preaching socialism and Communism is all very well, but try talking to someone who has actually LIVED under it.
I agree that too many Pro-Socialists dont seem to have a full understanding of what they are asking for, history has proven that it is very different in practice from what it is on paper.
But likewise Pro-Capitalists are kidding them selves if they think we can keep this system up for much longer. Just about every aspect of the worlds current climate says we can't.