I've been subjected to conversations about investments, 401Ks, retirement programs, health benefits, stock purchases, and mortgages for long enough to where I'm utterly, completely sick of it.
Who really believes, truly, that a 'retirement package' consists of money placed in an investment account, that will for-sure and no-joke and absolutely without fail result in an increase in value? Well, a lot of people. Who are morons.
It's a capitalist system, and therefore someone must lose. I'm now hearing a resurgence of idiocy, with people discussing stocks at work, shuffling their 401Ks, trying to recapture something that cannot exist. I'm sick of the greed, stupidity, and profligate money-grubbing. It is physically impossible for an entire culture, system, and nation to invest every dime they make in loans to corporations and have every single one of them return a profit; and yet that's what people seemed to fool themselves into believing.
Sick of it. God forbid you spend any of your time improving your immediate environment, or making an effort to create a neighborhood of mutually supportive persons. No way should you waste any of your time living around losers who make less money than you. Buy your way to security.
Yeah, that's it: buy your way to happiness and physical security.
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I don't understand why someone must lose in capitalism. I understand that people do lose, but it is not, in my opinion, a necessity.
ReplyDeleteI know I can't by my way to happiness, but perhaps you can physical security.
Capitalism, as practiced, is a competitive system, ergo, someone has to lose.
ReplyDeleteThe end result of of every capitalist system throughout history has been people starting an economic business, and either eliminating competition through force, or eliminating competition through 'more efficient' (cheaper in monetary terms or in work-hours)production.
The history of capitalism has been a story of controls, trusts, cut-throat competition, and wild swings of great wealth and abject poverty. In is a system of inequity, and is designed as such. What the US has currently is a more or less 'managed' system of capitalism, that is capitalism with supervision to try to control the wilder swings of monetary inequity.
However, I'll point out that given any kind of chance at all, participants in the capitalism system bypass, circumvent, or break the controlling rules at every opportunity, creating situations which currently exist in the US at the moment.
Philosophically, viewing the Earth as a place with finite resources, and viewing capitalism as a competitive method of exploiting those resources (and honestly, I fail to see how it can be viewed any other way), it boils down to competition for resources.
And that is nothing more than the same old organic human conflict that has existed since we stood on two feet. And in that conflict, someone has to lose. Sorry.