Me and my wife had a big argument on how we were going to rearrange the furniture in the kitchen. Finally I put my foot down and told her where I...
The future is in innovation and making our infrastructure more energy efficient. Going green doesn't have to mean zero growth. Just by changing...
So of course one sentence statements of fact from some guy on the internet with nothing to back them up can be dismissed as just that - the...
There is nothing that states socialism is necessarily totalitarian any more than all the American backed dictatorships in the world prove that...
Interesting reply. I don't know you from Adam Smith so this is in no way meant to insult you or to discount your experience but merely an...
Can you document any evidence that highly productive Swedes are moving to the US or doing better there?
There is no individual freedom without democracy!
Wrong again. Sweden has more billionaires per capita than the US and has a higher standard of living:...
But your land and property rights are enforced by rule of law are they not? Part of the reason George Washington and others revolted against...
You don't think they go hand in hand?
Yes. I agree. There will always be a tension between labour and capital in a capitalist system. The question is, if we are to maintain a...
My feeling is that it is going to take another great economic or military crisis to shake the world out of it's complacency - and I don't think...
Fair enough. I tend to look at how the game was played and wait until the final whistle before snapping to judgement. But the...
I agree. We are seeing this playing out before our eyes every day. Democracy seems to be dying a little more drip by drip every day.
Actually you've attacked almost everybody at one point or another including brutal oppression and military annexation of the Philippines and...
Okay just to follow up, As I stated before Guatemala was considered the private fiefdom of United Fruit and was a very profitable enterprise under...
Both Guatemala and Cuba had huge sugar-cane industries that were wholly owned and operated by United Fruit, who by coincidence was represented by...
I don't think they have stolen anyone's money. What I do think is that the billionaire class has gamed the system to maximize their own wealth...
I know right! [IMG] [IMG] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/long-painful-history-police-brutality-in-the-us-180964098/...
You can't be friends with anyone if you are always attacking them economically and surrounding them with military bases.
You've hit the nail on the head. Capitalism has had a very good run while it was moderated by social forces that could mitigate it's...
Interesting. But where do we get that iron discipline? Is it a part of human nature or is it to be enforced from above. I agree that what we call...
Interesting. I don't know if I would agree completely but I think there is merit in that argument. What do you think of the concentration of...
Great post. Yes capitalism has evolved over the years. I would say that capitalism is a revolutionary force and can work for the betterment of...
No, inequality is a real thing and it is adding orders of magnitude of instability not just in America but around the world. What your assertion...
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