Welcome Trip, you are going to use ZAMM I'm very happy to hear that and your
first post is already appreciated by at least 1 person. My name here is
Davor and I'm from the Netherlands. You wrote;
Some other criticisms of MODERN capitalism. (Post WWII - linked closely to
the Cold War)
The major industries(Air, car, now utilities and etc.) are controlled by a
very few interests becasue they function best with some sort of controlled
planning. It is very easy for these interests to collude and evade
anti-trust laws. Some things, like public transit, are best left to
government control.
Davor; I fully agree
Our giant corporate interests OWN their own news divisions.
Davor;Is this bad and is this any different in any other system and how is
this an consequence or charcteristic of capitalism?
Our gap between rich and poor is dramatically more than any other
industrialized nation
Davor; Agree once again
We, due to the pressure to grow our economy, commit horrendous human rights
abuses worldwide, not to mention the destabilizing effect our CIA has had on
thrid world development.
Davor; I agree but dont forget the other side of the medal of capitalism,
this works also in another direction in a positive way. Economical impulses
from foreign countries can stabilize economies and stabilize the political
and social atmosphere.
The effect of big money from labor and corporations is to weaken democracy
at the expense of capitalism. The power over our lives is decreasing except
for artificial things like appearance. What real choices do we have. We
either join their system or get hounded by the police or other government
agencies.
Davor; Ehm you speak about the system, remeber what Pirsig said about the
system?
Capitalism is a very inefficient method for many things: including
child+elderly care; taken out of the home where very few resources had to be
used - to nursing homes and child care centers where many have to be. Think
of the government red tape, the driving to and fro. Why did this change
happen: because modern parents/adult children, don't have the emotional
energy or time. Our lives, spent making a buck, don't allow this. The
nuclear family is very ineffiecent. Group housing projects here in Portland
consume 50% of what normal homes do, simply by sharing tasks for "free".
Davor; I agree
furthermore I like to add that capitalism is dynamic, one of the big
disadvantages of this is that it is not very predictable or easy to control.
A consequence of this is that the non-capitalistic who lack this dynamic
aspects in their system are left behind, capitalism grows and grows and
grows and other systems can't keep up, in this way the gap between rich and
poor countries is big, very big.
greetings Davor
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