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Where is capitalism going to lead us?

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AndrE16686:

--- Quote from: M Dogg on October 14, 2006, 10:47:26 PM ---globalization has been around before anyone has ever coined the term. The Chinese traded silk to the Romans, and in route they picked up Buddhism. That's both the globalization, religions and culture spreading


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 there is an ongoing debate (in the study of international relations) whether globalisation is just now a continuation of past trends, or with the world's increasingly integrated economy and interconnection if it has reached a whole new unprecedented era.


The only way to 'lead Capitalism to something fair' (I believe) is through government regulation of the market. Without regulation the West is just like the third world (the ultimate deregulated free market). The Right have traditionally been for small government, cutting taxes, minimal government regulation of the market and business and the Left has traditionally been for taxing you inorder to provide the means to police the market and provide a safety net to those would fall beneath the feet of the rat-race.  But I see people in the US greatly vilify the 'Liberals' for having high taxes when the truth is the Left spends the money on programs of social uplift whereas the Right will spend that money on a bomb that will either sit in a bunker and gather dust or get dropped on some Iraqi family's house. The Left sees capitalism as a reality but recognises that it can be harsh so it needs programs to help the poor folks, whereas, the Right has this idea that if you strenghen big business (cut their taxes, deregulate, etc) then big business can make more chedder and the wealth will trickle down from the rich to the poor. Make the rich man richer so he can pay the poor man more, this is US Conservative policy, how any person who isn't utterly ballin' feed into that shit is beyond me.

M Dogg™:

--- Quote from: YGZ on October 14, 2006, 11:38:34 PM ---
--- Quote from: M Dogg on October 14, 2006, 10:47:26 PM ---globalization has been around before anyone has ever coined the term. The Chinese traded silk to the Romans, and in route they picked up Buddhism. That's both the globalization, religions and culture spreading


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 there is an ongoing debate (in the study of international relations) whether globalisation is just now a continuation of past trends, or with the world's increasingly integrated economy and interconnection if it has reached a whole new unprecedented era.


The only way to 'lead Capitalism to something fair' (I believe) is through government regulation of the market. Without regulation the West is just like the third world (the ultimate deregulated free market). The Right have traditionally been for small government, cutting taxes, minimal government regulation of the market and business and the Left has traditionally been for taxing you inorder to provide the means to police the market and provide a safety net to those would fall beneath the feet of the rat-race.  But I see people in the US greatly vilify the 'Liberals' for having high taxes when the truth is the Left spends the money on programs of social uplift whereas the Right will spend that money on a bomb that will either sit in a bunker and gather dust or get dropped on some Iraqi family's house. The Left sees capitalism as a reality but recognises that it can be harsh so it needs programs to help the poor folks, whereas, the Right has this idea that if you strenghen big business (cut their taxes, deregulate, etc) then big business can make more chedder and the wealth will trickle down from the rich to the poor. Make the rich man richer so he can pay the poor man more, this is US Conservative policy, how any person who isn't utterly ballin' feed into that shit is beyond me.

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I know that with the US, it's all a matter of time, and which way the wind blows. At the heighten era of us being afraid of the Commies, we still voted in Democrats that pushed social programs, and what not. G.Bush 2 won as a fluke in 2000, but in 2001, once 9/11 happened, the U.S. stopped caring about others, and caring about what's socially correct for the world and ourselves, and we are beefing up the military. Had we ever been attacked in the 50's, Republicans would have ruled since then. It's nothing about conservativism, it's more about protection, and who is better in running a military. The Republicans have now put themselves in a position to push their global agenda, lower taxes for the rich, and explote the world. It's a matter of time before we move passed 9/11 that we'd be able to get back on track. Until then, it's up to the rest of the world to do what they got to do.

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Don Rizzle:
despite what you see in the news capitilism has helped bring countries closer together - to the point there is now less military fueding between countries and more diplomacy. It also helped the world economic growth reach record levels. however that doesn't mean there are not losers in this too, that is the very nature of capitilism - the ownus is on one's self to suceed and those who don't find a market for themselves will fail. As old aliegencies have been lost with the demise of empire, africa for example has become a poorer continent, in their efforts to restore their dignity by taking control of their countries they have allowed laziness, incompetence and curruption to flurish within their governements. the process was too quick - people were now in power who had never been in power before and they didn't know how to use it properly, so whether it was intentional or unintentional they mismanaged things. Now also there have been drawbacks in the west because the benifit of globalisation is the ability to import cheaper product and services, but will have a negative affect on the domestic producers of such products so they may cease trading if they can't find a market for themselves and everyone who works for them will lose their jobs and those companies who supplied them will lose business because their customer no longer exists and so on...

Buhda:
Capatalisim leads to companies buying out their competition or just plain wiping them out, eventually one company will previel above all the others and own everything, when this happens Capatalisim become's the very thing that most people think of as it's total oppisite, Commusnisim (well not true Marxist Communisim but the type of Commusnisim that we have seen and think off), one group of people owning everything but instead of being the Government it will be a Corporation, and because they will own all services they will control the world in a way no Government ever could.

Everything will become a commodity, you want to breathe your going to have to pay a fee to breathe, you want water your going to have to pay for it (well you more than likley already do). Capatalisim is nothing more than a system to justify greed and a lack of caring for others, it encourages money before people, Money will be god and the Mall will be the new church (fuck that you won't even need to go to the mall, you can give thanks to the corporation online with your credit card), at least when one Corapration owns everything people won;t have to die in false wars started to gain control of others resources.

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