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Originally Posted by Sun Tzu
The capitalistic environment (if uncorrupted- regulated in the wrong direction) stimulates innovation, encourages good customer service, and produces quality based on freedom of choice.
If company A produces a better product than company B, then company B will be forced to raise its standards.
Employees are not forced to work for their companies (at least in the US). If an employee views their wages, benefits, or anything else they view as disagreeable from their employer there is nothing stopping them from looking for other employment opportunities.
Uncorrupted is the key phrase here. Walmart didnt become what it is because of being good to its employees or putting out good products. In many cases where employees have ownership in the company the products and services are usually outstanding. If your suggesting that this be forced would go against many of the reasons why we had a tea party a few hundred years ago.
A vision that always comes to mind when having this discussion is- if we were all taking a test, and it was common knowledge that everyone is going to get a C- there wouldn't really be a need to study.
Pan Im almost aligned with everything you stated except the $1000000. Although you wouldnt see me out in the streets protesting it either.
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And in the days of serfdom, the peasant was not forced to work the Lord's land... he was perfectly free to starve to death instead.
Capitalism offers a choice marginally less stark, but fundamentally the same.
I would not speak of the American Revolution in terms of freedom personally... it did not create much freedom for the blakc population, who were enslaved; for the Indian people, who were butchered - did it?
The American Revolution was simply one band of exploiters fighting another band... the common people merely were forced to die for the rich.
The position of the slave in America was horrific even in comparison to the many crimes committed by the European colonialists; the murder of the Indian's carried about by the invaders a crime almost without equal in all human history. And what benefit for the working men and women of the nation, whether the gang master and the capitalist exploiter will pay some tax to a bigger exploiter, or keep it all for himself?
None. The American Revolution was meaningless to the ordinary citizen, other than a symbolic thing.
The Working People of the world have no nation, they are one people - united against the master class and the exploiter in cause, and divided by those exploiters in order to maintain the misery of the people.