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originally posted by: CantStandIt
Slavery is where the laborer has no choice. In reality, it is totally my choice to whom I sell my time and skills and under what terms. I always have the option of starting my own business and being the one responsible for everything. So far, I have chosen not to do that...
originally posted by: ScepticScot
a reply to: onequestion
I would agree that exploitation of labour is inherent within capitalism. I would not necessarily say that makes peoples slaves although depending on the circumstances and degree of exploitation people can find them selves so exploited and with so little option that they are effectively slaves.
Capitalism (as the name suggests) is a system that favours ownership over work. Whether people think that is a good or a bad thing is entirely subjective.
originally posted by: eluryh22
a reply to: Bluntone22
But...but...but that just doesn't feel fair. Just because someone works much harder than me, why shouldn't I have the same stuff as they do?
originally posted by: onequestion
originally posted by: eluryh22
a reply to: Bluntone22
But...but...but that just doesn't feel fair. Just because someone works much harder than me, why shouldn't I have the same stuff as they do?
What a load of crap. You probably don't even work that hard.
I bet the people in factories in China and mining operations in South Africa would laugh at you and what your definition of hard work is.
Meanwhile you go home to posh house with your nice car. "I work so hard I'm awesome".
What a joke.
originally posted by: eluryh22
a reply to: Bluntone22
But...but...but that just doesn't feel fair. Just because someone works much harder than me, why shouldn't I have the same stuff as they do?
originally posted by: fartlordsupreme
a reply to: ManBehindTheMask
nope
the joke is you
and history will not be kind
a fair and functioning system would not need to be defended the way you seem to think this one does
originally posted by: eluryh22
a reply to: onequestion
Your logic is so broken I'm struggling to answer it.
You buy a plot of land for $1 Million to build a small apartment building.
You hire a design firm for $200 Thousand (they receive 21% overhead and PROFIT based on their proposal... standard practice)
You hire a contractor to build it for $500 Thousand (they receive 21% overhead and PROFIT based on their proposal... standard practice)
After completion you sell the apartments for a total of $2.5 Million
See how that works? You made $800 Thousand and the design firm and the contractor made money as well.
originally posted by: Bluntone22
Well aparently you can live in a communist country and still get rich.
China has now passed the United States in number of billionaires....
money.cnn.com...
originally posted by: ManBehindTheMask
Theres a massive difference between capitalism and crony capitalism...
originally posted by: theMediator
originally posted by: ManBehindTheMask
Theres a massive difference between capitalism and crony capitalism...
I don't want to say I don't agree on the first degree but...
Unless tightly controlled by un-corrupted representatives of the population, how can capitalism not end the same way a Monopoly game ends?