And please, don’t refer to our current twisted capital system, private property etc, this is a philosophical question?I’ve noticed you’ve decided not published my response….could it be that you seek to crush any logical opposition that is likely to undermine the support for the capital system which you advocate so strongly for?Call someone an imbecile and dumb, but then silence them from posting a return if it challenges your view.Wow.
You think this is “fair”? No, not everybody is the same. However, Oxfam’s claims simply do not stack up. We know that these are all lies, but that doesn’t matter, as long as the masses of poor believe such nonsense, that’s all that seems to matter.The state should be in control of it, and its peoples destiny at all times. I guess time will tell.On rereading, I’m starting to think that you may not have been the author responding, but a third party instead.
People sell their skills, knowledge for an ample gain and in the end a monster at the top inflates his wealth like a balloon by the mere expropriation and exploitation. They start pointing fingers at those less fortunate, telling them to work harder, or that they should have tried harder at school. ?…..the wealth I see, and the majority see is in the hands of those few who have capital – akin to rubbing it in the face of poverty!“It is not “lucky” to have capital (yes this can be the case sometimes, obviously) it is often through diligent hard, intelligent and managed work that people can accumulate it. It is absurd to think that these countries would follow Germany’s example.The alternatives offered by left-wing critics of capitalism always have one common denominator: more state and less market. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads.Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. Germany, for example, is shutting down its nuclear power stations and coal-fired power plants and would like to abolish the combustion engine in the near future. You hate to admit that. Left-wing anti-capitalists in particular used to argue from a global perspective and regarded themselves as advocates for poor “Third World” countries. Besides, coronavirus may well yet highlight how successful Capitalism has been towards the masses. Equality of opportunity is not there. These are the common excuses of the wealthy, and the few who were lucky enough to get through the gap. The book makes the mistake of assuming that anyone who disagrees with von Mises is daft or mean spirited. Exactly, no they wouldn’t have time.
It is authoritarian dinosaurs that are going to go extinct.Wonderful reward for a winner who has success and lifetime poverty sentence to the looser no matter however he works hard.
It is authoritarian dinosaurs that are going to go extinct.”Freedom for the masses has not yet been experienced, maybe for the wealthy, but certainly not for the poor.
Why do you think that Steve should have to forfeit his fair share of the earths resources so that you can enrich your life with far more than your fair share, simply because you have lots of useless pieces of paper?
It is like the gold at the end of the rainbow…you can see it but if you try to go and take it all by force (like you would like the state to do) then it will not be there anymore! By clicking “Accept”, you consent to the use of ALL the cookies. Things such as free health care at the point of access etc are a good idea but there needs to be balance.
However the book does make some interesting points. You cannot compare a non skilled job that anybody could do with say a high risk technology entrepreneur that invents a whole new technology with their drive and vision. With massive oppression to go along with it! Only a narrow Euro- or American-centric perspective—an attitude that left-wing anti-capitalists otherwise criticize so sharply—could ignore these worldwide advances.In addition to their focus on inequality and the “gap between rich and poor,” anti-capitalists have also embraced climate change as one of their main critiques of capitalism. Right OK.”Now your just making things up to support your view. No, it is because in the years after the death of Mao Zedong, private property rights were introduced and the role of the (still powerful) state was curtailed. They ignore the fact that throughout the twentieth century, every system that was based on state planning not only failed economically, but led to environmental destruction far beyond the scale of any seen in capitalist countries. In what used to be very poor countries—especially in China and India—more than a billion people have been liberated from extreme poverty.This is a fact that even the most ardent critics of capitalism cannot deny.In a discussion on this very issue, an Oxfam spokesperson highlighted the decline in global poverty as evidence that development aid has had a huge positive impact. You think you are smart but you are really not.