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Kassem:
capitilsm is alright, it only needs a few laws to restrict the rich

J Bananas:

--- Quote from: P.L.O. Style on October 14, 2006, 03:44:37 PM ---i think capitalism will destroy humanity, it's like a drug for the society we live in, we know it's bad but we can't get rid of it, we are addicted to it. Anyway, good things always have an end

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wtf?

AndrE16686:
Capitalism has led the world into the era of the international free market. I don't see free market liberalism as necessarily bad, but of course we will need international regulations (i.e from the UN) and local governments to enforce them (i.e your governments).

National soverignty will be slowly erroded as foreign countries buy off your country's onshore assets. We will become increasingly integrated economically. I think these changes will mostly effect the West as foreign workers and refugees flock within your boarders, which, unofficially the labour market loves because immigrants are harder workers than the increasingly obese locals. However, the existing local working class in the West only needs to educate itself so it can do the skilled labour (there is a shortage in Australia), because all the no-brainer jobs are going to be/have been taken over by immigrants and foreign workers 'swarming' over your boarders and labour being outsourced to foreign countries. So this means getting some skills in the labour market inorder to compete with the immigrants taking the dishwashing jobs. Which isn't so hard, unless you are already some inbred hick then you will naturally despise the pathetic competition. 



'People use yo brain to gain'

-Until We Rich, Ice Cube

acgrundy:
Capitalism will lead the world back to where it was hundreds of years ago.  Just as once back in the day landowners were the wealthy and powerful and scarce, and peasants were abundant, poor, and powerless.  Very few will be rich and powerful, and they will be able to control everything.  The middle class will basically be eliminated.  It will become a more sophisticated form of slavory, as it already is today.  Think about how many americans work just to live.  They spend a majority of their time working so that they can pay rent/mortgage, food, utilities/bills.  Not much different than a slave who works all day, while getting a place to sleep at his masters residence and meals.  Who really knows what it will bring.  The world is overpopulated, so land is becomming scarcer and scarcer and therefore more valuable.  It will become harder and harder for people to move up in classes.  Small businesses will become harder and harder to stay afloat, and most likely in most industries will nearly become extinct, as you can already see this right now.  I believe capitalism led to the most profound history of the world, and it will probably lead to its downfall.  Capitalism will probably lead to world war III.  There is already plenty of ways to make life more efficient, and make life easier for people.  There is no way people in the US should have to work on avg 40 hours a week to maintain the standard of living.  However many people have to work much more than that, meanwhile hundreds of thousands are unemployed.  And who really ends up losing the most from all of this?  The consumer.  Product qualities have fallen.  Customer Service is horrible.  Business ethics are horrible.  Big business never wants to take blame/responsibility.

M Dogg™:
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, and capitalism. Over time, liberalism (capitalism) and neo liberalism (globalization) was responsible for some the greatest events (spead of religions, like Islam, Christainity; political ideals like Democracy and Communism) and some of the worst events (slave trade, blood diamonds and blood oil). In the end, both are human nature, and both are unstoppable now. There is no way you can reverse 10,500 years of progress (trade of animals from Asian to the Middle East in 7,500 BC). We can try to control it to make trade fair (WTO though sucks ass) and we can try to police the countries from conflict (the UN isn't doing well in this aspect any more). But it's too late, unless you want to pay $20 for a white tee, and $75 for some dickies, and $80 for some Chucks, then you should not complain about it all. There are many ways to look at the issue at hand. For one, we are taking advantages of countries. But if you ever bought your mom flowers, you should now most our roses are from Peru. In Peru, they pay the workers shit wages to US standards, BUT these ladies who work in the rose fields make TWICE as much as the average Peruvian worker. They can take care of their family, and live in a nice house because we buy our flowers there. Now they may not be in the best conditions, but at home they live good. In Thailand, home of most sweat shops, the ladies line up trying to work for Nike, because the pay is better than any job they can get outside of prostitution to European tourist. With high unemployment, these ladies want their sweat shop job.

This is very hard to reverse, but what we need is a way of controling people's living and working condition. This is something neither UN or WTO control, and it's not like they would do it anyways. Globalization and Capitalism are both too ingrained to reverse, so it's never going away. But what can come out of it is we can set up global task forces to enforce something that can help workers. It's along road, Capitalism ain't leading us no where else now, it's already lead us here. It's up to us to lead Capitalism to something fair, and for the good of humanity.

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