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Naturyl	Why Capitalism Works	Lead	[-]
Posts: 20136 Jan 21 11 3:33 PM { 0 = ∞ } = { ∞ = 0 } Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tags : None Capitalism works essentially because most people cannot easily figure out what's wrong with the following "business transaction": I place $20 in a box. So do you. Now the box contains $40, and we both know it. I sell the box to you for $30. And we both walk away with a $10 profit. If captialism is the opposite of socialism, shouldn't it be called antisocialism?
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Naturyl		#1	[-]
Posts: 20136 Jan 21 11 3:36 PM { 0 = ∞ } = { ∞ = 0 } Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Free-market capitalism, with its much-vaunted "win-win solutions" and insistence on a "non-zero-sum game," uses a similar (but far more complex and effective) "mind trick" to make people think it is a viable system for everyone's enrichment, rather than a system for one side (the owners) to win and another side (everybody else) to lose. The ownership class are the guys always trying to sell you the magic box. If captialism is the opposite of socialism, shouldn't it be called antisocialism?
vinny the hack		#2	[-]
Posts: 3148 Jan 21 11 4:25 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Actually, capitalism doesn't work. Like any pyramid scheme, it only becomes obvious to the idiots who buy into it, after it reaches its logical conclusion. Capitalism hasn't quite reached it...but it's getting close in the U.S.
Naturyl		#3	[-]
Posts: 20136 Jan 21 11 4:43 PM { 0 = ∞ } = { ∞ = 0 } Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	True enough. By "works" I mean something like "is accepted as functional and/or desirable temporarily." If people saw capitalism for what it really is, it would be rejected immediately. It is mind games like the one in the OP, but on a much larger scale, that keep people thinking capitalism is anything other than a scam. Those mind games are the foundation of the free-market economic religion. If captialism is the opposite of socialism, shouldn't it be called antisocialism?
Birthmark		#4	[-]
Posts: 107 Jan 21 11 10:28 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Capitalism works because it is a fraud. It allows the capitalist to palm off costs that should be included in the price of their products (including a lot of overhead) onto the government and/or future generations. And they have the nerve to complain if anyone seeks to collect on those costs that they're ducking.

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