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Re: Averages and Capitalism (was Re: Those stupid liberal judges are at it again!)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 19 Sep 2002 03:11:21 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
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> > This is where capitalism has socialism beat by a long mile--in capitalism,
> > the 'harder I work' the more I can have--it all goes to me :)
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> The harder we work and pull together as a team, the better chance we have of
> beating those guys who are merely out for themselves.
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> Of course, once your "team" is a bunch of faceless numbers, you lose your
> motivation. :-)
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> >
Again, in a perect world, this would work, but, as todays newspaper
headlines tell us, and as numbers are crunched, we see the gulf between the
richest of us and the poorest of us growing at an alarming rate. And the
scandals and greed in the corporate world--well, watch CNN and read the dailies.
> > Which again brings up my point--until human nature changes, when we become
> > selfless people instead of selfish people, neither pure capitalism nor pure
> > socialism is ever going to work.
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> Neither takes into account human nature, so I feel both are ultimately
> broken in the "pure" form. If one wants to account one of them a religion,
> I think it would then be equally true of the other.
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> Bruce
Very nicely said, Bruce.
If it were me, I'd toss capitalism, socialism, and alot of the spice called
'social justice' and whip it up together and serve it up as a (mostly) good
way to run a society.
If it were me.
Dave K.
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