10 Reasons to Hate Capitalism

[xchrom]

http://www.alternet.org/economy/10-reasons-hate-capitalism

10. Capitalist corporations suffer from a personality disorder characterized by enduring antisocial behavior, diminished empathy and remorse, and are rewarded by shareholders for acting that way. If corporations could be sent to a criminal psychologist’s office they’d be diagnosed as psychopaths and locked away forever.

9. Capitalism encourages greed. But greed is only good for capitalists. For normal people it is anti-social and soul destroying, not to mention very bad for our communities, which rely on altruism, compassion and a generalized concern for others.

8. Capitalism is a system of minority privilege and class rule based on the private ownership of means of livelihood. This gives a few rich people the power to buy and sell jobs, which means they can build or destroy entire communities that depend on those jobs.

7. Capitalists praise freedom and individualism, but they destroy freedom and individualism for everyone but themselves. The vast majority of us who work for a living are daily asked to uncritically follow orders, to act as if we are machines, and limit our creativity to what profits our bosses.

[PowerToThePeople]

1. K&R. Capitalism is the root cause of so many of our problems. n/t

[The2ndWheel]

2. Unfortunately, I think

that's too easy of an answer

[brooklynite]

3. Name an alternative economic system that works in the real world...

[Nye Bevan]

4. Nonsense. With better regulation and higher taxes capitalism can work just fine.

Look at Denmark and Germany, for example.

[el_bryanto]

5. What other financial systems have worked better?

Western Europe/Scandinavia are capitalist countries - they are a lot better managed and regulated than we are (and fit closer with what I would like to see), but they are capitalist.

Bryant