Capitalism is broken

[Chairman-Mao]

mrstickball said:

ManusJustus said:

Chairman-Mao said:

Capitalism is the only economic system that gives all people an equal opportunity to succeed.

That is so much bullshit, and I hope you are only trying to bullshit others rather than having successfully bullshitted yourself.

You can make the valid argument that capitalism gives people the opportunity to succeed, but in no way does it give people equal opportunities.  On the contrary, socialism strives to give people equal opportunity, with programs like socialized education, while capitalism promotes unequal opportunity.  Surely, no sane person would make the argument that the son of a million dollar a year salary CEO who goes to private school and will inherit his father's business with he graduates has an equal opportunity with the son of a single mother living in the ghetto who is working at Wal-Mart to pay his way through college.

 

The fact is that socialism doesn't promote equality. It promotes mediocrity as strives to ensure that everyone recieves the same input, and demands the same output regardless of skill. The problem is that not all desire to be equal. Many want to squeak through life, living in mediocrity, desiring to use social programs to their own messed up benefits.

My thoughts exactly. Good post mrstickball.