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Haven't people always sucked?Capitalism leverages the greed in humans to fuel productivity. However, greed is based on selfishness, which produces hatred of others.
As such, has the advance in capitalism resulted in an increase in hatred in the human race?
What we call poor in modern America is a standard of living that poor people from times prior to capitalism would have killed for.Capitalism creates huge imbalances with some people having no wealth at all. That is a problem.
That's their fault, not the fault of the system.Income does not necessarily translate into an increased standard of life. First of all I have known people who made good money, but spent more than their income could reasonably support and who therefore ended up miserable. Not only that, but I make way more money than my mother's father, but he had a very nice 80 acre farm and was self sufficient. As far as hunger goes, perhaps people are better fed than were the barbaric people of Europe thousands of years ago, but the simple natives in Florida had plenty to eat. It was only when the cruel Europeans showed up and enslaved them did they start to experience a decline in their standard of living. Disease, part of the problem is that so many diseases have occurred like diabetes that are the result of overindulgence as the result of the capitalist lifestyle. And as creature comforts go, capitalism has resulted in enormous filthy slums filled with disease all over the world. For instance, the Israelis have kept over a million Palestinian people in a large slum where raw sewage flows in the street.
Indeed it is my perception and it is based on the reality that capitalism is about making money, and making money is not centered on empathizing with people. I remember when I was young and was struggling in sales. I used to empathize with people when they would tell me things like "O, I am on a budget." This expert told me, look you are not going to sell anything like that. One of two things happens when a you encounter a prospective customer, either you will convince them to buy it, or they will convince you that they cannot. Making money is not about empathizing with people.
Overall, good post. I'm not quite getting the parallels to wars that you and some others are taking in this thread, though.Capitalism was certainly an improvement from the feudal mode of production that it superseded. Feudalism was too an improvement from the slave society that it replaced. Modes of production have consistently, since the fall of the hunter-gatherer society, fostered hatred and a brutish competition for resources. Capitalism has taken competition and bloodthirstiness familiar to humanity and expanded its scope to the national stage. Facilitated by the rise of the modern nation state and the corporation, human relations have been commodified, and the profit motive has subjugated large swathes of the globe's population. When compared to the ethical standards of past systems, capitalism looks rather neat and humane, just as feudalism would look when compared to slavery. Only someone guileless could claim that capitalism is objectively humane, considering its expansion led to colonialism, both World Wars, and continued imperialism to this day.
Capitalism has modernized the world in spectacular fashion. But with that has come much bloodshed, despair, and oppression. We could rather harness the technology that exists today and channel it into creating a vastly superior system.
Capitalism leverages the greed in humans to fuel productivity. However, greed is based on selfishness, which produces hatred of others.
As such, has the advance in capitalism resulted in an increase in hatred in the human race?
Capitalism creates huge imbalances with some people having no wealth at all. That is a problem.
So what? Forcing everyone to be equal doesn't take any real skill. It's a simple matter of having enough force to do it.
Oh please, in a socialist system the leaders greed is all that matters. You don't eliminate greed by stomping people down to keep them all equal.
I love people with dreams, but you got to make a plan to get there and realize that nothing is perfect no matter what. Capitalism improved peoples living standards more than any other system known to man and that includes socialism that can do nothing but feed off the fruits of other systems. Socialism is a parasite that causes societies to stagnant and become dependent on growth coming from government. Socialism takes the life blood out of capitalism and anything it comes into contact with.
Your argument seems to rely on a false notion that hatred in the human race is a new phenomenon.
One thing that Capitalism does is perpetuate hate filed leftist propaganda.
Haven't people always sucked?
What we call poor in modern America is a standard of living that poor people from times prior to capitalism would have killed for.
That's their fault, not the fault of the system.
Capitalism creates huge imbalances with some people having no wealth at all. That is a problem.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and presume you misunderstood what I said.Some poor people. But there are poor people who want no part of the so called extravagant lifestyle that the richest of capitalists live either, so what you said means little.
Then why did you include it if it had no bearing on your point? :shrug: I merely responded to your words.That had nothing whatsoever to do with the point that I was making.
Capitalism leverages the greed in humans to fuel productivity. However, greed is based on selfishness, which produces hatred of others.
As such, has the advance in capitalism resulted in an increase in hatred in the human race?
There is no system or economic structure a country could follow that is not immune to greed and to prevent contempt from the populace. So no, Capitalism doesn't breed hatred, and if it did it is no better at it than socialism, communism, or any other "Ism" one can think up.
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