by Ibrahim » Thu Oct 20, 2011 3:40 am
Troll shit aside, the issue with capitalism is that it creates winners and losers, and the losers die in the streets. America, to a slightly lesser degree than other developed nations, has some built in degree of socialist policies to ameliorate the effects of capitalist competition, but the "losers" are unhappy with their share, and furthermore the system as a whole appears unable to sustain those programs in the long term.
This is the oncoming crisis for most Western nations, and at the end of the line it comes down to full socialism, where the glorious proletariat wrests filthy lucre from the bloated robber barons and redistributes it equally, or full capitalitm, where the mooching bums deservedly die in droves while the John Galt ubermensch live on in creative splendor.
A few centuries ago this wasn't a problem at all because we were used to people starving to death on a regular basis. Nobody cared before, say, Dickens.