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reply posted on 13-4-2009 @ 11:26 PM by Frankidealist35
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That's exactly what I'm saying. Socialists want for the government to nationalize businesses or to legislate businesses. They want intervention to make them more equal and freer for people in them. But, when you think about it having the government step in isn't the solution and isn't an alternative, and, having the government step in is another codeword for interventionism.


reply posted on 15-4-2009 @ 12:16 PM by theWCH
He's actually right on pretty much all counts. It was basically 35 minutes worth of facts about how our the average American saw their inflation-adjusted wages flat-line while production continued to increase, and then we compensated by using ridiculous amounts of credit. He points out that this is likely an unavoidable outcome of capitalism. Then in the last few minutes he puts forth an alternative that wouldn't require government intervention (and is, in fact, the way that some CompSci companies have willingly gone).

Of course, he fails to mention that, in the 1950s, our military started classifying technological breakthroughs (notice that most of the past 50 years has been little more than the culmination of semiconductor research that was done in the 1940s) and that without invention/innovation, capitalism fails. He also could have touched on the fact that major corpoations have a vested interest in preventing new Entrepreneurs from being innovative (although some made it in the computer revolution), and from preventing innovation from leaking out (the status quo has lower upstart costs).

There's also the fact that many people in the financial sector were committing outright fraud, and capitalism can't function if fraud is tolerated.

Then there's our deteriorating education system -- one of the worst in the world -- which has led us into a situation where people can't find jobs because they're dumber than immigrants who got their education in Asia ("they took our jobs" rhetoric aside, they're simply better at what they do).

The current economic collapse is really a multi-headed monster, and any theorist of any ideology will probably be at least partially about the some of the causes.

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