Capitalism is Violence

Also, some of those "elites" didn't start out that way. Bill gates came from a middle class family, dropped out of college and started Microsoft in the garage of his parents home. Capitalism makes such possible. Socialism doesn't.
Your knowledge of history is less impressive than your insights into economics. Bill Gates came from a rich family that provided him with 10,000 hours of computer programming experience before he left for Harvard.

Gates fortune is the result of politically constructed laws and institutions that socialize cost and privatize profit (How much would Microsoft be worth absent the Internet?)

Socialism would distribute Microsoft's revenue in proportion to the amount of productive labor that produces the wealth:

Why Bill Gates' net worth is so high 20 years since stepping down as Microsoft CEO
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"Microsoft Corporation is a major international technology company, with around 96,000 full-time employees in the United States in fiscal year 2020. Another 67,000 of Microsoft's full-time employees are located outside the company's home market bringing the total number of full-time employees worldwide to around 163,000."

Microsoft employees by location 2020 | Statista.

One parasite worth 96 billion dollars/163,000 employees.

Even innumerate billionaire butt-wipes (like you) should be able to manage that math
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All people are greedy .

The similarities in dictates between religions proffering demands based on theism and religions proffering demands based on secular humanism are astounding .
Capitalism requires greed the same way fire needs oxygen. Economics, which began as a moral philosophy that dealt with how individuals live their lives, has since morphed into a pseudo-science designed to promote monopolized greed and market it as human nature.
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Capitalism or Human Greed? | NEW POINT de VIEW
 
All people are greedy .

The similarities in dictates between religions proffering demands based on theism and religions proffering demands based on secular humanism are astounding .
Capitalism requires greed the same way fire needs oxygen. Economics, which began as a moral philosophy that dealt with how individuals live their lives, has since morphed into a pseudo-science designed to promote monopolized greed and market it as human nature.
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Capitalism or Human Greed? | NEW POINT de VIEW

It's true, a billion poor people scratching in the dirt with sticks to plant seeds don't have very much wealth. Did Jeff Bezos make them poor? How?
 
Preach it Comrade!

You get 50 cents per post, or what?
You're confusing me with a capitalist:

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs - Wikipedia

"In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!
 
What connects slave labor, the ruthless extraction of foreign natural resources, wars of aggression, and regular mass shooting episodes in the US?
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Systemic Disorder

"Violence, force and coercion — exemplified in widespread use of slave labor, imperialist conquests of peoples around the world and ruthless extraction of natural resources — pervades the entire history of capitalism.

"The rise of capitalism can’t be understood outside slavery, colonialism and plunder."

Capitalism took root by placing markets over people.
English lords wanted to transform arable land into sheep pastures to capitalize on the demand for wool, and state force was the crucial midwife.
Slavery played its role in bootstrapping the rise of European and US capitalism.
Over the past hundred years the US has perfected the use of state-sanctioned force to implement William Howard Taft's essential foreign policy:


"... President Taft had already declared that his foreign policy was 'to include active intervention to secure our merchandise and our capitalists opportunity for profitable investment' abroad. "








No, STATISM, is violence. Capitalism is investment in progress.

Anyone who is anticapitalist, IS FASCIST.
 
hey’re called economic principles for a good reason: What is taught in a solid economic-principles course are the principles of the operation of a competitive economy guided by market prices.
Markets, along with corporations and money, are creations of government. The distribution of income isn't determined by an invisible hand's objective appraisal of each individual worker's and investor's marginal utility but the politically constructed laws and institutions that structure economic activity in a given society.

Capitalist markets function on ability to pay.

There are alternatives:
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"The principle refers to free access to and distribution of goods, capital and services.[3]

"In the Marxist view, such an arrangement will be made possible by the abundance of goods and services that a developed communist system will be capable to produce; the idea is that, with the full development of socialism and unfettered productive forces, there will be enough to satisfy everyone's needs.[4][5"

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs - Wikipedia

Capitalist markets function on ability to pay.

Yup.

Capitalist ideas that work make money, capitalists ideas that don't work go under.
 
No, STATISM, is violence. Capitalism is investment in progress.

Anyone who is anticapitalist, IS FASCIST.
Fascism is capitalism when things go wrong.
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The Pentagon practices state capitalism.





Fascism is STATISM. Capitalism is the OPPOSITE of Statism. Capitalism is people, working for other people for a wage. If they don't
like the wage, they can LEAVE. In your hero country the Soviet Union, when the farmers tried to leave the Collective farms that Stalin wanted......they were MURDERED. All 3.5 MILLION of them.

Fine group of people you seem to love. Moron.
 
Taking an Econ 101 course in the US should be advertised as a Capitalism 101 class; it makes as much sense as taking a Religion 101 offering that limits its scope to Christianity.
There is no theory to discuss with Socialist economics. Hand your money to the government and they will take care of you. Class dismissed, everyone gets an 'A'.
 
Around that same time, several counties in southeastern Kansas elected socialists. I'm not sure if they seized all private property or what. Those were the days, eh, comrade?
Many Americans were clear on where Wall Street gets its money at one time unlike their brainwashed descendants:
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"'Debsian socialism' remains in the American lexicon as a vestige of the golden age of socialist popularity, and for good reasons.

"Debs’s near-million-vote total in the presidential election of 1912 would have rendered the Socialist Party the 'third party' in American politics, if the Progressive 'Bull Moose' Party, which split from the Republicans under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt, had not offered overpowering competition."
 

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