Sorry I am afraid you’re wrong. Capitalism is characterised with disproportionate exchanges. Here at CF, Charlie has been very liberal in disseminating ideas on this forum. The cost of DVDs and material are relatively fair. I know others; Chek, who rip of CF ideas and extort thousands from people. They‘re the greedy capitalists. Here, ideas are exchanged freely. Selling goods is also a socialist idea - as long as the exchange is fair.
I’ll look at the specific topics that we have covered.
The slaughter of race horses could be minimised by regulating the industry through stricter standards. There are too many horses being bred in an attempt to produce the next champion. Let’s limit the number of mares that a stallion can serve in one year and limit the number of foals a broodmare can have within a year. Current mares are injected with hormones to bring them into heat and produce more foals.
Prize money can be redistributed from 2 year old races which favour horses’ breed for speed to races for older horses. Too many 2-year-old horses end up in the slaughter house because their skeletal development doesn’t allow them to tolerate the forces of racing.
The problem is that the horse racing industry is self regulated. Therefore safety standards for horses come second to profit.
Look what happened to Enron in a new unregulated environment. Enron was not obliged to disclose prices or the volumes bought and sold. The company and its subsidiaries bought and sold bulk energy - often with each other. They were not accountable. The end result was that the cost of electricity went astronomically high. Rank and file shareholders lost millions whilst the corporate high flyers sold their shares prior to the collapse.
This is where things become foggy. Industries complain that regulation will cost jobs and limit progress. However, Enron is the proof that de-regulation doesn’t work. Politicians and banks were all in on the Enron scandal.
CEOs and politicians should also be made to make a testimony to federal agents. Any violations of industry standards and corruption should result in serious jail time. This is happening to many top athletes and coaches now. But it’s the biggest load of shit! If the politicians and corporate high flyers were made to make statements to federal agents they would all be up for perjury charges.
Ideologically, the solution to capitalism is to keep a very close eye on it.
Consider us an operational/un-registered not for profit…we practically give our stuff away, and at a loss… so I disagree with you. However, we could always take your opinion and change our pricing model to reflect a more relevant position but that would put our products out of reach for many.
Rupert
CharlieFrancis.com
vices of virtues there will always be a world full of vices and virtues. Greed is forever until the death of mankind (if it ever reaches that point)
From the Oxford dictionary
Cap-i-tal-ism/kapit'lizem/ n.1 an econimic system in which the production and distribution of goods depend on invested private capital and profit making.
Thats exactly what has brought us the CF forum and various training DVD’s and clinics.
The fact is if someone had not had the brains and ambition to invent the computer and then market it for profit. There would be no CF forum. The same goes for the manufacturing of dvd’s and other products.
Almost every advancement the world has seen has come directly or indirectly from capitalism.
Almost every job in the free world has been created by capitalism. Even people who work for the govt or subsit on govt handouts are in reality being paid with taxpayer dollars taken from people and bussinesses that generate the dollars via capitalism.
You can trash capitalism all you like if it makes you feel better. But the fact remains it is the single most important and benifical concept the world has seen.
No, capitalism was born in the 17th century in Europe, when the Industrial revolution begun.
In the 17th century, Capitalism gave birth to the working class. As a class, our people earn their living by selling their power to labour to Capitalists, whose money and position enable them to employ us to make a profit for them, thus enabling them to accumulate more and more money.
How did Capitalism start in England?
The ruling class forced it upon the working people. Murders, hangings, robbing was part and parcel of how Capitalism was coerced onto the working people.
Adam Smith wrote 1776 Wealth of Nations, which gave birth to the phenomena of globalization . Smith argued that individuals should act in their own interests but to this end he must exchange what he owns or produces with others who sufficiently value what he has to offer, so by of dividing labour and free market, the public interest is advanced.
Smith would turn in his grave with he knew what capitalism had into. He argued that self interest was beneficial as it allowed public interest to simultaneously develop. Smith was guided by noble moral sentiments, and his work was aimed at improving the welfare of society. Smith had no control how his work would be used after it was developed. Capitalism was supposed to promote economic benefits for everyone, not empower the ruling class.
O yes what we need to become is communist! That works out great, just look at the countries that have tried it. Not to say capitalistic gov’t is the best, but its the best we have on this earth, an until you or someone else comes up with something that actually works in reality and not just on paper, don’t go around saying that capitalist ruin the world. But if you’re only speaking to “greedy capitalists” then i withdraw my comment. And as far was whales, most of the world has stopped killing whales except Japan, so you sympathy cry has already been heard about 50 years ago. And as you said without testing on animals we would not know even half of the things we do concerning science, we would have/had to test on humans, IT has happened, i.e. Nazi’s, Soviet’s, and I’m sure U.S. gov’t and we all have cried over that, now haven’t we or are you one of those guys who say the “holocaust never happened”?. And your quote about the physiologist saying that we have no conscience being true and backing it up with the things going on in Rwanda as evidence, then you’re full of crap because you can’t simply pick out one incident in time and classify that for a whole species. I mean I know that all of us (humans) have done crazy things; it’s simply our nature so to say to fight and have “our” interest in front over other groups. I mean for you to use a quote about us not having a conciseness is false by your own statements of animal rights.
this is why no one takes peta seriously.
Adam Smith the father of capitalism and economics argued persuasively that within such a market economy every buyer and seller could be left to pursue their own self-interest - and that the result would lead to a healthier, more productive economy. Capitalism was meant to benefit everyone, society as whole was supposed to be better off. Unfortunately Smiths work was manipulated by the ruling class, and all what happened is a massive divide between the ruling class and working class. The British state become enormous wealthy whilst the rest of society suffered.
Communism and socialism are different concepts. I am proponent of socialism. Everyone would share the benefits of production. Public education and public health care are socialist concepts that stemmed from socialism. In Australia and Canada public health care exist because historically socialist parties have influenced the political systems.
If the state were totally capitalist than public education and health care would not exist. Well, in the US there isn’t public health. Now that’s one huge dilemma facing the US.
Any economics student will tell how capitalism works and they way it was supposed to work are two very different things.