Sorry, but capitalism gives me a good living. I bought my competitor out last year and I'll do it again if I have to! Business, is business, at the end of the day? Doesn't make me a bad person, cos i'm not. Just building a future for my kids, that's all!

Upton Sinclair says "Fascism is capitalism plus murder." I slightly disagree. I believe Totalitarianism is capitalism plus murder. Because if it were up to you, you would by every single competitor if you could. There's nothing wrong with that. This is what I call "self interest." You have to feed yourself and your family. Thanks for proving my point why capitalism will never work.

Here's another example: why isn't marijuana legalized? There are more positive than negative benefits to smoking marijuana. Why do people have to go to jail for selling or buying marihuana if the main concept of capitalism involves no government involvement and acknowledgement of personal freedoms?? Why must I fear government intervention for wanting to purchase 100.00 dollars worth of marihuana for my menstrual cramps?? High fructose corn syrup which is in 99% percent of our food, is linked to weight gain; diabetes, high blood pressure, abnormal distribution of fats. High Fructose Corn Syrup is banned in many countries. And in parts of Europe, the company has to put a HFCS label on the food. The pharmaceutical and food corporations in United States are a multi-billion dollar industry. The pharmaceutical and food corporations have enlisted the services of our elected officials to not only put forth their product; but to regulate laws aimed at people who do want to practice free market capitalism such as selling marihuana. Herion turns into morphine in the brain. Herion amc morphine is from the same opium plant. Why is herion illegal? Because those pharmaceuticals companies who manufacture morphine, dilaudid, Vicodin, Percocet would lose billions of dollArs. The pharmAceutical corporations have enlisted the help of the DEA to ensure that Capitalism such as an individual selling heroin doesn't occur.

If anything, this disproves your point about why capitalism doesn't work. He made a business decision based on his self interest and bought out the competition. He presumably didn't take them over by force. And by selling, the sellers also acted in their own self interest. What was not explained is why those businesses were bought out. There are any number of reasons why those transactions took place. Either way, both parties acted in their own self interest. That is not a flaw in capitalism or in human nature. That's not even a flaw. That is two parties making a deal that is mutually beneficial.

All arguments in favor of free market capitalism, and not the cronyism that you're referring to. You're citing examples of people buying the rules. If they are truly interested free markets, they don't need to bribe those in power to make rules that favor them. It's the buying and selling of influence and power, not the buying and selling of goods and services that is the problem. Anyone can win at a game if they buy the rules they like. A truly free market capitalist system is a level playing field because everyone has an equal opportunity.

here's a one word flaw in capitalism.....Wal-Mart............taking advantage of foreign slave labor, paying employees as little as possible, offering next to nothing in benefits, and forcing all mom & pop business out of the market...is this good or bad for the people of the communities they do business in...?

For the record...I never said I didn't like capitalism. I just simply implied that it would never work. I think we have a better chance of seeing a unicorn than seeing capitalism in America. The shirt you are wearing in your default was probably made in some factory that pays its worker $3.10 cents a day for 10 hours. Because if that worker was getting paid $10.00 an hour for 10 hours a day, your shirt would probably cost about $310.00 dollars.
Also in some of these factories, workers are forced to take birth control. Your self-interest needs are being met by violation of individual basic rights of another. Are you able to sew your own clothes and make your own sneakers?? Again, do you think 320 million people will suppress their self interest needs? This is a question that you fail to answer. No need to. It's a very complex answer. This is why capitalism will never work. Capitalism ideology involves the human element. Human element is complex. Cronyism is part of the human element. It is rooted in self interest.

exactly what is this bought and sold influence that
walmart takes advantage of that is not available to
any other retail merchandiser operating in america...???

and my other question is still unanswered...good or bad ???

here's a one word flaw in capitalism.....Wal-Mart............taking advantage of foreign slave labor, paying employees as little as possible, offering next to nothing in benefits, and forcing all mom & pop business out of the market...is this good or bad for the people of the communities they do business in...?

I don't think it matters whether I trust the government or not. The topic is about capitalism. You are focusing on the political/economic aspect of capitalism. I am focusing on the the psychological and physiological aspect of capitalism. In order for capitalism to work you FIRST have to acknowledge the physiological and psychological aspect of capitalism; humans have to first recognize that they are animals with an innate non-suppressible drive. The human race does that recognize this. The human race believes that they are the supreme beings of the universe. The problem with this way of thinking is that it excludes acknowledgement of our own innate drive: self-interest and sex. "Self-interest" is synonymous to air, food, and water. Human beings are eukaryotic organisms: we are animals. Human beings are no different than lions and orca. This is why capitalism will never work. Capitalism doesn't even work in the animal kingdom. Do you think the mAle lion going not kill a wildebeest for altruistic purposes? Do you think male lion who wants to take control over a pride NOT commit infanticide for the altruism of others?? Because if that male cub matures, he's going to kill any other male that tries to take over the pride. Even if human beings acknowledge that they are animals, in order for them to get the bare necessities such as food, they Have to take away the rights of others for self-interest.

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/capitalism.html

Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.

The recognition of individual rights entails the banishment of physical force from human relationships: basically, rights can be violated only by means of force. In a capitalist society, no man or group may initiate the use of physical force against others. The only function of the government, in such a society, is the task of protecting man's rights, i.e., the task of protecting him from physical force; the government acts as the agent of man's right of self-defense, and may use force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use; thus the government is the means of placing the retaliatory use of force under objective control.

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal





When I say capitalism, I mean a full, pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism,with a separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church...........

Capitalism GOOD!
Cronyism BAD!

what makes you believe that WALMART would exist in a Free Market?