Never Give In
27th July 2007, 16:41
This is the basics of my beliefs on why Capitalism is wrong, and how products should be distributed. I call myself an Anarchist but I question it sometimes. Can anyone help me find a label?
One of the fundamental faults of Capitalism is the basic axiom that if all people try to accumulate as much property and wealth as possible the general interest of the people will be served. All this seems to create is exploitation, hatred, and greed. Factory owners try to reduce as much as possible their expenditures on employees. The store owners try to profiteer as much as possible without any concern for the public, only their wallet. While the owners of factories and stores flourish, the worker does not come close to the wealth of the one who does nothing but pull the strings. I think a system which is based on an assumption that man is naturally greedy and because of that only fit to look after him is made of nothing but lies and a sickening greed.
Under Capitalism indifference to human needs has developed. For example, Canada and the United States spend countless hours worrying about the overproduction of food, and pay millions a year to reduce food production. They do this, while millions of people starve all over the world. Also, the production of goods is determined by market and not by human need. At all levels of development industries are run as if they are a good in themselves and should be maintained for their own sake rather then the welfare of mankind. I would like to see production based on human need, instead of human greed.
I believe that food, clothes, water, electricity, etc. (the basic things in life), because they are necessities needed to live and function in the modern world, should be handed out for free. Perhaps not in abundance, there may not be enough resources to support that, but enough for each family inhabiting the society. Other items that are not essential to survival, such as Televisions, Computers, Video Games, Toys, etc. should be bought if the person decides they want to. Want and Need are very different things. Needs should be handed out, Wants should be earned. People would be able to survive without prosperous financial conditions, but when they do they would be rewarded richly.
I have given much thought to if houses should be a free good as well, and I have come to the conclusion that they should. The common argument is that there is too many people to give out homes, which is why there is so many homeless individuals. If all the unnecessary factories that produce goods in the name of greed were knocked down, we’d have plenty of land for a mass construction of houses. The habitats of animals and plants would be unharmed, because the land the mass construction would take place on was already previously cleared. No new destruction, only new construction.
If there's any other info you need to help figure this out, just ask and i'll answer. Labels aren't really important to me, but I'd like to have a banner to stand under with people who believe almost exactly as I do.
One of the fundamental faults of Capitalism is the basic axiom that if all people try to accumulate as much property and wealth as possible the general interest of the people will be served. All this seems to create is exploitation, hatred, and greed. Factory owners try to reduce as much as possible their expenditures on employees. The store owners try to profiteer as much as possible without any concern for the public, only their wallet. While the owners of factories and stores flourish, the worker does not come close to the wealth of the one who does nothing but pull the strings. I think a system which is based on an assumption that man is naturally greedy and because of that only fit to look after him is made of nothing but lies and a sickening greed.
Under Capitalism indifference to human needs has developed. For example, Canada and the United States spend countless hours worrying about the overproduction of food, and pay millions a year to reduce food production. They do this, while millions of people starve all over the world. Also, the production of goods is determined by market and not by human need. At all levels of development industries are run as if they are a good in themselves and should be maintained for their own sake rather then the welfare of mankind. I would like to see production based on human need, instead of human greed.
I believe that food, clothes, water, electricity, etc. (the basic things in life), because they are necessities needed to live and function in the modern world, should be handed out for free. Perhaps not in abundance, there may not be enough resources to support that, but enough for each family inhabiting the society. Other items that are not essential to survival, such as Televisions, Computers, Video Games, Toys, etc. should be bought if the person decides they want to. Want and Need are very different things. Needs should be handed out, Wants should be earned. People would be able to survive without prosperous financial conditions, but when they do they would be rewarded richly.
I have given much thought to if houses should be a free good as well, and I have come to the conclusion that they should. The common argument is that there is too many people to give out homes, which is why there is so many homeless individuals. If all the unnecessary factories that produce goods in the name of greed were knocked down, we’d have plenty of land for a mass construction of houses. The habitats of animals and plants would be unharmed, because the land the mass construction would take place on was already previously cleared. No new destruction, only new construction.
If there's any other info you need to help figure this out, just ask and i'll answer. Labels aren't really important to me, but I'd like to have a banner to stand under with people who believe almost exactly as I do.