4 Pollution
It shouldn’t be hard to convince people not to kill themselves, however, this is what companies are doing as they refuse to put in environmental measures because it will reduce their profit margins. It doesn’t matter to them that, in the long term, we’ll all be dead, as long as in the short term they’ll have the most money.
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Zim : Let me see, Socialist government run China has a severe
air pollution problem. (From burning coal without smoke stack
scrubbers.) In contrast, the United States mandated 'smoke
stack scrubbers' on all of America's coal fired power plants.
End result - Capitalist America has cleaner air than communist China.
Look. Just as in labor safety with OSHA, America has the EPA to
ensure those nasty polluting capitalists do not poison everybody.
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3 War
Many of the wars fought in recent years have been over profit. In Iraq, the war was largely funded by oil barons, and it was private firms who handled most of the security after the initial invasion. In Libya, western forces intervened when the civil war caused oil supplies to be cut off. They only sided with the rebels because they thought they were the most likely to win. In Iran, military intervention is being threatened over the blocking of trading routes to transport oil.
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Zim : The lies in the above paragraph are legion. The United States did
not invade Iraq over oil. I could write a paper on the subject, but if
anyone disagrees with me let them produce evidence. In the meantime, just
in case ya didn't notice, Iraq has their own elected government now.
As for Iran threatening to block the flow of oil out of the Persian gulf . . .
Blocking sea lanes is a violation of international law.
And then socialist countries are just as likely to make war as capitalist
countries. Probably more because the President of the U.S. is supposed
to have a war approved by the congress . . . Where-as the socialist
'dear leader' might start a war because 'somebody' disrespected him or
as a means to distract an unruly populace from the miseries that (eventually)
come about as a result of socialism.
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2 Dictatorship
We wouldn’t stand for dictatorship in our governments, so why do we stand for it in the workplace? CEOs get paid massive salaries, and award themselves huge bonuses on top of them, while they pay their workers minimum wage. The bosses don’t do the work, they don’t produce the goods we consume, and they merely own the means of production. As for those who do? The workers don’t have any say in how it is controlled.
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Zim : What would be keeping the workers from leaving an abusive boss
to go to work in a more 'worker friendly' place? And then here in
the United States we do have an assortment of 'fair labor' laws.
Contrast that with the socialist countries . . . where, all too often,
workers who irritate the party apparatchik get sent to gulags.
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1 Propaganda
You cannot escape capitalism, it’s everywhere. On every billboard, on every TV program, you have someone telling you to buy something. When this is done by governments in dictatorships we call it propaganda, when companies do it, it’s called advertising. They’re both forms of brainwashing.
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Zim : There is that.
However, if America's socialists ever got absolute power, I'm pretty
sure one of the first things 'they' would do is to abolish Fox
News. Goodbye Constitutional Rights.
One can escape Capitalism. One can ignore billboards and not watch TV.
Ignore the commercials. But why would I want to 'escape' Capitalism?
Capitalism is why the American grocery stores have lots of food on the
shelves. Capitalists trying to make money create factories and if
there are enough of them I have a plethora of choices for who I might work
for and if I work 'capitalistically minded' I can make more money to buy
more of what the capitalists are making and selling.
In short, I live a pretty good life - because of American Capitalism.
I'm pretty well protected at work because of American Laws supporting
Capitalist principles while protecting everybody. I live in a fairly
clean environment because American law strikes a balance between
keeping the environment clean and still producing an excess of goods
and services cheaply enough that I can enjoy a comfortable standard
of living.
Zim.
Mad Poet Strikes Again.
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