Which are the top problems of capitalism?

[UnknownPerson]

According to you, which are the top most important problems of capitalism?

[Sixiang]

Exploitation.

[RichardAWilson]

Exploitation and Alienation.

[xub3rn00dlex]

Exploitation.
Exploitation.
And more exploitation.

Oh! Ferrari's for an elite few :[

[miltonwasfried...man]

Capitalism enslaves the masses.

[Ocean Seal]

Starvation, poverty, exploitation, institutionalized racism, institutionalized sexism, bigotry, imperialism, alienation, poor allocation of funds, poor justice system, poor education, 3 million prisoners in a certain capitalist country, 700 military bases of one country outside of said country, violence against activists, lack of democracy, concentration of power and wealth in the few, nationalism, propaganda against socialists.

[RichardAWilson]

Don't forget Alienation: You can be exploited without being alienated. Capitalism, by nature, is dehumanizing.

[The Teacher]

Vast differences in income and opportunity. The people who make and sell the products only receive a fraction of what their labor is actually worth, while people who perform no labor get the vast majority of the benefit. All other problems in capitalism result from this imbalance. Hell, economic imbalance IS capitalism.

[ZeroNowhere]

That it necessarily leads to its own supersession. Je ne suis pas une Proudhoniste.

[Fulanito de Tal]

Private property

There was a guy (Pedro) and he killed a bunch of people (let's say "Indians"). After that, I would be punished for going on the land where he killed those people. Later, another guy (Manolo) came and gave him some papers (money). Now, Pedro can't go on the same land and Manolo can. However, I still cannot go on that land and no one has given me any papers. Why doesn't anyone give me some of those papers to not go on the land too? I'm prohibiting myself from going there in the interest of Manolo, so I should be compensated with papers. And be the way, why do we agree to giving this paper any value? Especially when such a small small small small percentage of people has control over a very large large large percentage of this intrinsically worthless paper?

Tell me how that makes sense in anyone's head.

Here's a better one. If 10 people were stranded on an island, would it make sense to let one person have control over 90% of the most desired land, have another 3 specialize in protecting that person's control over that land, while the other 6 work to maintain the land controller in a VERY well-off fashion, the 3 guards in a content fashion, themselves in a survival fashion, and still fight each other (among the 6) for individual control over the 10% of the rest of least desirable land?

That's stupid and that is what's happening on this island (Earth).

[LevDavidovichBronstein]

The biggest problem with capitalism today is that 10% of the world's population own 70% of the worlds wealth. Over 1 billion people, if not alot more, across the world live in poverty.

Another huge problem is that in capitalism money = power, so once you get rich you can stay rich.

[Volcanicity]

It's irrelevant what the top problems are,as long as we live within a capitalist system those problems will always exist in some shape or form.

The problem with capitalism is capitalism itself.

[The Idler]

Exploitation and oppression.

[freya4]

Capitalism thrives on the exploited labor of the workers, and turns them into wage slaves whose only real purpose, in the eyes of the capitalists, is making profit for them. It creates unnecessary wars between the ruling classes of different countries, who use the workers as their pawns, and creates mass inequality and poverty. Luckily though, it is not a sustainable system, and eventually it will bring about its own downfall in one form or another.

[Lanky Wanker]

Everything. :cool:

[Old Mole]

The problem is of course the uncontrollable factor, the proletariat.