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MrSinister
I think you are right to say that corporations has gone haywire. I think globalization is part of the problem actually. When all those big buisnisses abandoned your country so to did their obligation towards their communities. It`s all about profits now. They suck the government dry of money and act as "job creators" in other countries. Western societies are but consumers now. But with the continuing loss of purchasing power we wont be for much longer.
Perhaps then foreign corporatons will find their cheap labor here?
darkbake
reply to post by sheepslayer247
I agree with you, good argument. I think socialism is not a bad thing. Socialism is not as extremist as communism. Another thought I have on the matter is that in our country, we need more middle-class families (even saying this I feel like it's a joke, like the idea of it is outdated).\
One last thing. One motivating factor in our government (the United States) for sending out assistance to the population has been to deal with civil unrest, I am sure. So what happens when our government has the ability to deal with civil unrest through military means?
What I'm saying here, is if we switch the justification of power for our government from Democracy (what the people want) to military force, there are going to be a lot of changes to the pattern you are suggesting.
For example, the population of the country will not have to be happy, because they can be killed or arrested.
sheepslayer247
Does extreme capitalism give birth to socialism?
sheepslayer247
It was not so long ago, when America still had a manufacturing base, that this ideal was alive and well throughout America. People worked hard, provided for their families and the blue collar worker could live a good life. Half of the country did not have to rely on assistance programs from the government just to survive because capitalism was working as intended.... work hard and you would be rewarded.
But that is not the case today. It seems capitalism has run amok and the corporations have bastardized American capitalism to mean that the ultimate goal is to make money. To find the best path to achieve that goal, they shipped jobs out of the country, lowered the value and pay we place on a hard days work and have slowly turned America into a service nation. We no longer have a nation of skilled laborers that make TV's, and toasters...we are a nation that flips burgers and sells insurance.........
Think about that for a second. Is that not exactly what has happened in the US? Capitalism was allowed to thrive freely in America with very little regulation and if we take the examples I mentioned earlier, outsourcing of jobs, lower pay, no manufacturing etc, could we not make the case that extreme capitalism can be and is the catalyst that brought state-mandated socialism to America through programs like food stamps, welfare, health care etc?.....
Kali74
I think extremes of anything tend to taste bad in peoples mouths after a while and they begin looking at alternatives, generally embracing anything that seems opposite. I know you're familiar with the swinging pendulum analogy.