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RE: Mid-week Musings: Anniversaries... and it's All a Matter of Time!

Listen here, you commie apologist
Dear @denmarkguy , confusing capitalism with insatiable greed is a symptom of the indoctrination of corporatism and governments being capitalism - which it is not.(that's fascism).
Free market capitalism has no government interference, which means no corporatism (insatiable greed by a non living legal entity).

Capitalism is voluntary cooperation, which seeks to make both parties benefit from the transaction (and if it didn't it wouldn't sustain itself).

Capitalism has a (intentionally) bad reputation - from the insitutions - the powers that be hate capitalism - they love corporatism - which then leads to a more and more centralized one world government = communism/technocracy.
John D. Rockefeller on competition...'Competition is sin'.
If a snakes oil salesman loser, like him, says that - what does it tell you?

'Free market capitalism'- or no capitalism at all.
You can't have both, just the pretense of it.

I'll shut up now - I don't wanna disturb your relaxing day! lol

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I would submit that greed exists as part of the human condition, regardless of capitalism, statism, Marxism or any other -isms.

Whether you lean towards Austrian economics or Socialism... greed simply exists and some people will act on it, regardless of the infrastructure they find themselves in.

Capitalism is simply a framework; a vehicle.

There are always going to be a few idiots — maybe we should label them "mentally ill?" — who believe they should own and control ALL the "marbles," because that's what makes them feel "powerful." Maybe they didn't get enough candy when they were kids...

Most theories are pretty amazing... until you actually get people involved in them!

As you say greed is part of the human condition - it's when it becomes obsessive that problems arise.
'Healthy greed' is no more than acquiring resources to live.(and why lefties have guilt about greed - (ie not understanding the human condition).
What could be more greedy than creating laws to 'legally' take resources off one person and then deciding who should get them?

Capitalism in it's truest philosophical sense - has nothing to do with money - it's the system that runs throughout nature. (we've just created the word in relation to money).
No money required.

All other 'economic systems' run against nature - top down social engineering that's not based on organic hierarchy (small social groups), but by entities not involved with a persons life, directly (governments for example).

The need for power for it's own sake does indeed lead to being 'Mentally ill'.
...Or they are nuts already, (more likely), and it's the expression of their nuttiness!

The Freudian perspective of super ego, id and ego seems to create a model that fits quite well in explaining behaviors (in my opinion, and though observation).
If it's anywhere near accurate - then 'the nuttiness' starts long before the acquiring of resources

Hey, you helped me maintain my relaxing day. I didn't have to respond to exonerate capitalism, since you already did. Cheers!

lol - no problem , matey!