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 Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:32 pm
That is how many people control $3.6 trillion. Compare this to 2.4 billion people who control $3.8 trillion. Do the math on a calculator, even. Hell, just the fact that there are more then 6 billion people in the world should tip you off to the fact that there is something wrong here. 1,011 people compared to 6 billion is (for mathematical purposes) effectively 0% of the population. Allow me to reiterate this... NOBODY CONTROLS ALMOST AS MUCH MONEY THAN SLIGHTLY LESS THAN HALF OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION!!! Please tell me I'm not the only person who finds that to be a little more than wrong. These numbers can be backed up by the World Bank.
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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 2:59 am
That's capitalism for you. It's the type of system Americans (and all westerners for that matter) have been fighting to preserve since WW1. I'm not going to say that it's right, but it's the philosophy that thousands of people fought and died trying to defend. Socialism is no better but that's for another discussion. Capitalism has always been a matter of creating large economic disparity depending on the type of work that you do. Essentially, it creates an enormously rich higher class and an enormously poor lower class. Fortunately for the US, there isn't an overabundance of lower class vagrants running amok. Unless you wanna be like those "damn commies" and convert to socialism where the government owns everything or be like the so-called "Anonymous" and push for anarchy which will evolve itself into either a state of barbarism or despotism, you're stuck with the broken system that gives everyone an equal chance to fail miserably at life and starve.
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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 6:56 am
I'm sorry, but do you even know anything about Communism? I'm not talking about Stalin's bastardised version (dictatorship), but true Communism? It's what Marx wrote about. Basically, every person (even those in government) would be treated as equally as the next. Wage would be similar (within a few dollars of each other by today's standards) regardless of position. You would do whatever job it is you do simply because you enjoyed it, or did it well, not because you wanted to be compensated well. Sure, it may not be as glamourous as Capitalism, but who says you can't save up for something that you want? A Communist society (on paper, not in practice) is a pure society. The only reason it doesn't work is because there are people who feel that they are superior to their brother man. Go ahead and call me a Communist, but isn't a system of equality something worth fighting for?
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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 7:03 am
I'm all for Socialism. I just feel that humans are too naturally greedy to make it work. That's why Communism came about. Socialism's what they were striving for, and Communism's the failed attempt's result.
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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 7:30 am
Actually, that's very true...
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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 7:40 am
Yup. And even though we say the US is a Capitalist nation, we haven't been completely Capitalist since before the Great Depression.
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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 7:45 am
That is also true, except that we've never been truly Capitalist because even then there were regulations on the "free" market.
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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 7:50 am
That's true. I guess you could say that Capitalism and Socialism are the ideals, and humans have never really been able to reach them. At least, not as of yet.
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