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well there's no law that forces them to make it easy.
by luckydata 5y ago
well there's no law that forces them to make it easy.
- olliej 5y agoThere’s also no law that requires it be true or accurate. What a great system! :-/
- nopenopenopeno 5y agoYeah, capitalism is a nightmare.
- robertlagrant 5y agoCapitalism generally happens successfully in societies with laws. The difference with socialism is the state both defines the laws and decides how to allocate resources, which tends to result in a lot of poverty.
- thesuitonym 5y agoGovernment isn't an outside entity. Government is the people--except in a capitalist country where government is owned by corporations.
- p1esk 5y agoBy your logic, corporations are people too
- olliej 5y agoThat is indeed what the US Supreme Court agrees with you. Except of course corporations don't go to jail for committing crime.
- p1esk 5y agoNeither do governments. But individual people in governments and corporations do.
- robertlagrant 5y agoThis is why corporations have directors. Do we have to go through the motions of this tired old cliché?
- robertlagrant 5y ago> Government is the people--except in a capitalist country where government is owned by corporations. In what country is this true? Was everyone in Soviet Russia the government? Why did they order the killing of themselves if so?
- Phenomenit 5y agoDepends on your definition of success.If one is Thinking of the long-term viability of the human race then capitalism can only be seen as a disaster if you look at it from a ecological perspective.
- emteycz 5y agoCapitalism doesn't happen without state and it is defined by the state, so it's a failure of state regulation, not capitalism itself. States must set different regulation and/or incentives. It's perfectly possible to have 100% ecological capitalism.
- pydry 5y agoCapitalism is the engine behind the pay-to-play nature of the political processes and the supporting propaganda that triggers those failures. You cant separate capitalism from, for example, the decades of amplified Koch propaganda attacking environmental regulatory prudence and buying up politicians. The Kochs respond to incentives just like everybody else. >It's perfectly possible to have 100% ecological capitalism. Only with a shallow and one dimensional view of what capitalism really is and how a state actually functions.
- FredPret 5y agoPay-to-play happens in every single society. The bigger the government, the more benefit there is in engaging in this behaviour.
- pydry 5y agoCorruption of some form usually exists in every society but this form is something a bit special. r > g means that the power accumulates at a geometric rate without countervailing forces. What this means is that capitalism requires an exceptionally tight leash to not spin out of control. The mere presence of voting isnt enough.
- ant6n 5y agoAnd in certain capitalist societies, the capital decides the laws and allocation of resources. At least in theory, in a democratic society, government should be elected by the people. Unfortunately there never was a democratic, socialist country, so it's hard to make statements based on observation with these matters.
- emteycz 5y agoThere were many democratic socialist countries, unfortunately socialism devolves into tyranny in less than one election period. For example Czechoslovakia voted for communism freely by its own volition in 1946, and the communists started killing people the same year. It's not an individual's fault - many new unknown people started ruthlessly competing for absolute power as soon as it became available. Similar process happened in the entire Eastern Bloc.
- lovich 5y agoIf killing people is your bar for descending into tyranny then capitalism is guilty of the same thing. The whiskey rebellion happened in the US shortly after it’s formation and that was over paying taxes to the capitalist state. You also had the various government slaughters of workers striking whenever they tried to get a better deal from their employers
- emteycz 5y agoI'm not advocating for capitalism, I'm just against socialism/communism because it fatally corrupts people's minds - watching local movies from this era is painful, as you can see the horrific distortions it imposed on the people from above. I mean stuff like parents teaching children to never stand out, never excel, never strive for more, never be different - in a panic try to protect them from state-mandated harm.
- rbanffy 5y agoThis is more or less what Brazil is doing, but they voted for a (luckily incompetent) proto-dictator to prevent the danger of "communism" (as in "voting for a center-left party" communism). Democracy only works well with a well informed electorate. This is why we need to fight the diffusion of propaganda disguised as news.