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Is Capitalism Evil?
American Thinker via CDS ^ | 3/3/2010 | Jim Gammon

Posted on 03/07/2010 11:35:10 AM PST by ezfindit

We hear people speak of “business” and “capitalism” as being somehow evil, including comments about capitalists victimizing employees and customers in pursuit of the goal of “maximizing profits”.

In conversations with supposedly educated people who lean to the left, the concept is an accepted axiom, that maximizing profits – at the expense of everything good in the world – is the one and only purpose of business. It is the socialist rallying cry these days.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: capitalism; competition; economics; freemarket
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To: the invisib1e hand
Good point...take away human morals from the free trade of goods, services, ideas, etc. and what are you left with?

The Chicago way of doing business!

The answer? Regulation, the Chicago Way!

41 posted on 03/07/2010 5:11:53 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself... - D.H. Lawrence)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
The answer? Regulation, the Chicago Way!

That, I believe, was the plan, wickedly effective as it has been.

But it ain't over...

42 posted on 03/07/2010 5:13:48 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (let the rich eat the rich.)
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To: the invisib1e hand
I agree!

But I do take some solace in the fact the Axelrod (as reported in the NY Times this weekend) is near burnout. Obviously, holding back the tide of freedom loving Americans isn't quite as easy as the Chicago mafia thought it would be.

43 posted on 03/07/2010 5:22:38 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself... - D.H. Lawrence)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

crucifixion would we too good for Axelrod and co.


44 posted on 03/07/2010 5:27:28 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (let the rich eat the rich.)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
something good from chicago once came...
45 posted on 03/07/2010 5:40:04 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (let the rich eat the rich.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Actually, I think Chicago is a great town. It just has a very bad political machine. And its racial politics aren’t exactly free of hatred either.


46 posted on 03/07/2010 6:13:00 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself... - D.H. Lawrence)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

If capitalism was evil, then libtards would champion it... for libtards *ARE* the voice of evil.


47 posted on 03/07/2010 8:38:00 PM PST by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: 4Liberty

I like that bumper sticker!!!

:-)


48 posted on 03/07/2010 8:44:37 PM PST by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: ezfindit

Any system taken to an unblinkered extreme is evil. However the system as we have it implemented now is not intrinsically evil. It is a tool which often does much good anmd I can’t think of a better system off hand...


49 posted on 03/07/2010 10:46:28 PM PST by Androcles (All your typos are belong to us)
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To: ezfindit

No.


50 posted on 03/08/2010 3:26:20 AM PST by Cindy
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To: the invisib1e hand

“Capitalism is Free Enterprise dressed up as a moral system.”

Well, “Capitalism” was intended as a derogatory term (as are most -isms) because Marx wanted to destroy it.


51 posted on 03/08/2010 5:01:06 AM PST by RoadTest (Wealth isn't obscene. Poverty is obscene. - Thomas (man of few but dynamite words) Sowell)
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To: ezfindit
"In my opinion, “maximizing profits” as a management goal is the most ill-conceived and destructive business management style. It causes loss, not gain."

It's only because you misunderstand, as it appeards, what profit-maximization means. It is not an unconstrained maximization but subject to various restrictions --- legal, physical, and moral.

The argument against profit-maximization is fallacious: it is an argument against a straw man. Specifically, the claim is that UNconstrained profit-maximization is bad for this or that reason. But nobody --- absolutely nobody --- has ever advocated or practiced such maximization.

52 posted on 03/08/2010 8:40:20 PM PST by TopQuark
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To: RoadTest
Well, “Capitalism” was intended as a derogatory term (as are most -isms) because Marx wanted to destroy it.

Perhaps. I tend to think that Marx postulated that free enterprise would destroy itself by morphing -- emasculated of moral conscience -- to the soulless and unchecked practice of capitalism (which most wouldn't and still don't notice) on its way to socialism and eventually communism.

53 posted on 03/09/2010 10:13:56 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (let the rich eat the rich.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Uh-huh.


54 posted on 03/09/2010 2:02:21 PM PST by RoadTest (Wealth isn't obscene. Poverty is obscene. - Thomas (man of few but dynamite words) Sowell)
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To: RoadTest
Uh-huh.

What, are you quoting from your thesis on this topic?

55 posted on 03/10/2010 4:35:06 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (let the rich eat the rich.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

No, I was just adjusting the snowjob protectors over my ears.


56 posted on 03/11/2010 4:50:14 AM PST by RoadTest (Wealth isn't obscene. Poverty is obscene. - Thomas (man of few but dynamite words) Sowell)
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To: RoadTest
No, I was just adjusting the snowjob protectors over my ears.

You need to trade 'em in, pally.

57 posted on 03/11/2010 11:58:27 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (let the rich eat the rich.)
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To: ezfindit
In its highest form, Capitalism is the un-coerced exchange of goods and services.
Give that all the other systems, by definition, require coercion, Capitalism is the ONLY more moral and ethical economic system.
58 posted on 03/11/2010 12:07:29 PM PST by Little Ray (The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!)
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