Depends on the individual
Some produce more misery than anything else
That's your opinion, which, with a few dollars, will get you a cup of coffee.
Humans have always had to work together in communities to survive. The mirage of consumer capitalism provides us with what we need from a top-down approach. In the absence of this system, we would go back to micro-economics and local interdependence.
I would leave Ayn Rand out of it, for the sake of clarity. Her "selfishness" is best translated as "personal integrity", if you pay attention.
Yes, but how in the hell can you pay attention?
Yes, but how in the hell can you pay attention?
Capitalism is simply a tool to promote self interest as well by making it easier to acquire the resources one needs and allowing one to benefit from providing services to others.
Society exists to protect the individual and his or her interests. As a result it promotes the self-interest of those individuals.
Henrin said:There is no such thing as an era of selfishness nor is it worse or better today than it ever was in the past. It simply is and will always be as no creature can survive without it.
God forbid any of us ever witness that kind of destruction with our own eyes.
In
the study, published in the journal
Nature
Communications, researchers used high-powered computing to run hundreds of thousands of games to see whether it was selfishness or selflessness that ultimately won.
"We found evolution will punish you if you are selfish and mean," lead author Christoph Adami,Michigan State University professor of microbiology and molecular genetics said in a news release.
Learn more here: Evolution Study Reveals Why Selfish People Will Become Extinct : Science/Tech : Counsel & Heal
I always knew that the anti-social,selfish, mean people who worship Ayn Rand would eventually pay for their sins. Now I have scientific proof of that.
"What goes around, comes around."
[/QUOTE][QUOTE]I read her novel, I've seen what she did to literature...
The evidence in the historic record is that nations that have adopted capitalism have higher standards of living, substantial middle classes, and dramatically lower poverty rates than those that don't, in addition to being drastically better in terms of human rights. I don't think what you wrote makes any sense.
They did, because they abandoned monarchy and aristocracy, and rule by
war leaders, which enshrines selfishness even more than capitalism does. Capitalism was an improvement, and turning capitalism into a wealth-based oligarchy has done it no service. But capitalism is not an end state. It's a transitional system, like any other, to be replaced with something better when the time comes. And the time is long overdue.
They did, because they abandoned monarchy and aristocracy, and rule by war leaders, which enshrines selfishness even more than capitalism does. Capitalism was an improvement, and turning capitalism into a wealth-based oligarchy has done it no service. But capitalism is not an end state. It's a transitional system, like any other, to be replaced with something better when the time comes. And the time is long overdue.
Why would you want to transition from freedom, to no freedom, for the sake of change? You value change over freedom and prosperity? *boggle* I mean, just go pledge your services to the first person you find and let them control your life if that's what you want. Trying to destroy a civilization just so you can be told how to live your life seems silly.
Based on what evidence? Which people compared to which other people? Will be better? What zealous absolutists nonsense. It's like you're preaching to some cult.People want to change things because the new way will be better than the old way.
Absurd. If you do not accept that you have economic freedom unparalleled in most of human history and around the world, you're not being serious. And in every case of this "will change things to get some", everyone knows you mean that they will take ownership of things others own, and make it theirs. Conquest is all you're describing, you want to whip up the soldiers and go pillage. Granted, that sounds kind of fun in a primitive appeal, but call it what it is. Whip up the faithful on your crusade, you're doing great.Because they don't have freedom now and they want some, so they'll change things to get some.
lol. You get to decide what I get? You're too funny Paschendale.You might like things the way they are now, where you have freedom and they don't. But that's too bad. The progressive march of history for the last five centuries has been pretty consistent in distributing freedom more evenly, rather than concentrating it in fewer hands. Of course I value freedom and prosperity. I just value collective freedom and prosperity more than you having more freedom and prosperity than everyone else. You don't get to benefit at the expense of others. You're not special and don't deserve a greater share than everyone else. No one does.
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