MisterVeritis (02-11-2019)
When the government intrudes and interferes with the free market why do you blame the free market? Blame the real villain, the government.
It frustrates me when someone says the government should make some activity illegal. The politicians hear that and gladly oblige. The result, always, is tyranny.
Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
True, I'm trying to separate out the economics from the politics. Capitalism and socialism are both economic systems, distinct as described in the OP, but virtually the same in terms of political control. Once you remove capital expenses from production value, the question is how distribute the remainder. In capitalism the capitalist, the private owner is supposed to dcide while in socialism the workers are supposed to decide--supposed, but the government in each case makes most of those decisions. One might say socialism ends of worse but there's nothing to stop capitalism from eventually becoming totalitarian.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
But in a capitalist system, for various reasons, the same thing seems to be happening ...
Coercion is inherent in socialism.Government coercion is simply not a distinguishing feature between socialism and capitalism.
We can limit government interference in capitalist systems. But we must be vigilant. We have not been.
Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.
Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.
The Chinese now have a capitalist system. It's state run.
How much further must we go to reach that state? We're already pretty much there. There's nothing to stop it. Ths notion of individualism offers no defense as it does away with the social hierarchy that once stood between the individual and the state.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
It happens not by intent or design in either system. The intent and design of capitalism is individual control by owners, the intent and design of socialism is equal control by workers. In neither does that exist. It happens because nothing exists to stop it from happening. Good intentions pave the road to serfdom.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler