Originally posted by Skyfloating
Capitalism begins with an idea for a business that can generate money in order to
a) Expand
b) Employ people
c) Contribute to society
This is simply illogical.
Capitalism begins with an idea for a business that can generate money... just to generate more money.
How can you possible infer a b or c has anything to do with capitalism?
Those are simply possible outcomes of business growth. Expansion and employing people is to create profits, not the other way around. And a contribution to society is possible, but often people make money by hurting society through exploitation of weak, manipulation of information, and pollution.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Nothing whatsoever to do with exploitation of the weak.
Unfortunately exploitation is a fundamental aspect of capitalism.
Just as pollution is a fundamental aspect of industry and technology, it is something that must be actively resisted.
Unrestricted technology and industry is bad for the environment simply because people are able to make money off of the destruction, their is nothing accept individual morality to stop it.
The same goes for exploitation of the weak and capitalism. It is an intrinsic part of of the system that must be actively resisted by individual powerful people.
A powerful person must actively think, "I am going to decide to make less money and gain less power because I don't want to cause harm to others".
The problem with capitalism is it creates corporatism and a massive centralization of power. This means we depend on the person with the most money to be the most moral.
Capitalism rewards power with more power. It is the only rule.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Anti-capitalism itself is a conspiracy against progress.
Capitalism is also in fundamental contradiction to progress.
The electric car = good for society = bad for powerful corporations
Progress is resisted when it has the possibility to pull money away from corporations.
It is very simple, the most powerful people in the world are powerful in the current system, the more the system evolves and changes the higher the chance of losing power, thus, progress is resisted.
During the industrial revolution we thought that capitalism was the key to progress for society, what we have since realized is it was the key to progress for the powerful.
The slaves now have to feed, cloth, and house themselves.
Capitalism makes the powerful more powerful and the weak weaker.
. I'd always chose capitalism over any other previous ideology, since
capitalism is the one with least rules - its existence is almost natural. 
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