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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] All of these issues about equality and merit have nothing to do with capitalism. Capitalism as a monetary system is about GREED as a motivating factor for people to go out and work or build industries TO MAKE CAPITAL (money) off the labor, land and resources of OTHER PEOPLE. It does not CARE about equal distribution of resources, as it actually PROMOTES an UNEQUAL distribution of resources, which is based on a darwinian survival of the fittest, might makes right mentality, that justifies doing whatever it takes to stay on top. Captilism is about social competition for resources where whoever wins is the only one that counts. Therefore, the whole process of exploitation, slavery, oppression, wars and genocide are justified because it keeps the capitalists ON TOP and everyone else on the bottom. Oh, and by the way, just going to work everyday does not make you a capitalist. Going to work everyday is just a means to put food on the table. It is based on the same act of working for day to day survival that mankind has been practicing for thousands of years. What makes it capitalism is WHO gets MOST of the benefit from YOUR labor, WHERE the money goes and WHAT they do with it. That is where capitalism starts as a MONETARY SYSTEM and it has nothing to do with the basic needs of the individual who has to work everyday, as that is fundamental in ANY monetary system. Therefore, a monetary system is just that, a system of money distribution, not just work. It is about HOW money made from the work of others is distributed and WHO gets most of it. The creation distribution and control of CAPITAL is the KEY to capital-ism. Capital being the most important aspect of capitalism as it has ALWAYS been. Capitalism HAS NEVER been about fair distribution of MONEY for work done. Anyone who believes that is blatantly ignorant. Capitalism is about extracting the MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF CAPITAL for any amount of work done, not for the worker, but for the COMPANY or ENTERPRISE and those CAPITALISTS that control it. The CAPITAL is then put into circulation VIA BANKS and FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS which PROVIDE THE CAPITAL for MORE ENTERPRISES and COMPANIES who in turn generate MORE CAPITAL from OTHER PEOPLES labor, land and resources. To know capitalism you must understand HOW the capitalst system works, what makes it function, who controls it, what its primary purpose is and the means by which it maintains itself. Theoretical talk about merit and equal distribution of resources is irrelevant because the reality is that resources ARE NOT distributed equally in a CAPITALIST system and captalism HAS NEVER promoted such an idea. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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