Is Poverty the Worst Crime of Capital in the 1st World

[Ocean Seal]

I would postulate that no, indeed it is not. Not because poverty is not a crime worthy of attacking, but because of what they do around poverty that makes it so much worse. Would having less money really be all that bad if it weren't for the crime that is manufactured around it. If it weren't for the capitalists throwing the poor into prisons? Or from the poor being excluded from better schooling. Or from the housing crisis created around them. But the question is, when we eliminate those things from production is that not indeed the end that is created to money, and by money being gone, poverty is also stricken from the record? So the capitalist indeed manufactures poverty from all sides.

[Rafiq]

With regard to previous modes of production capital creates no crimes.

With regard to labor and the class contradiction inherent to capitalism: The crime of wage slavery is the greatest.

[jookyle]

I think the problem is considering poverty to be a product of capitalism. Poverty must exist for capitalism to survive both in domestic and international economies. It's not a product of capitalism as much it's necessary for capitalism to exist as a whole. Without extreme economic and social stratification caused by exploitation, capitalism can not exist.

[tuwix]

And it is sometimes a crime, and a discrimination. As color of skin is cause for being supposed criminal and for discrimination as poverty is. Exactly as people of different color of skin than white couldn't go to some schools, as poor people can't now.

But discrimination due to money is the only one that isn't even tried to be eliminated by a state. The cause of it is obvious: capitalism.

[ckaihatsu]

Gap between wages and consumer prices imperils security

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40wcDd382F0


Poverty rates surge in American suburbs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjsrdcbbPBU

[Sabot Cat]

Resource deprivation is the worst thing that global capitalism does. Beyond the industrialized nations, or even within them in some cases, people die from starvation, contaminated food and water supplies, or diseases that could have been cured or vaccinated against. I find it evident that the wealthy who jealously hoard their wealth and encapsulate themselves in luxury are directly responsible for the deaths of the impoverished.

[reb]

I think we can all agree that the crime of capitalism is that it takes alienation to it's penultimate degree.

[DoCt SPARTAN]

I hate when people talk all about reform and how "the system is in minor depression". Also how all our problems are just a short term imperfections capitalism. SO then i tell them (like most of you mentioned) the system is not broken it is working perfectly capitalism feeds of imperialism, exploitation, materialism, war. The list goes on, you just have to realize how the system really works!