It's not an informed choice though, it is what capitalism is about - it exploits peoples' desperation, like people who drink Coca - cola or eat McDonald's. The people who make it know it's cheap shit and don't give a toss that people are addicted to it. There will always be the layer at the bottom of the pyramid whose only function is to spend money in the direction of the top of the pyramid. That is capitalism. And it's wrong , morally wrong.
Last edited by Grouse; 26-06-2008 at 06:38 PM.
Yep pete i understand what your saying about your NI payments for health care, but what your paying for is in fact a private letter or certificate. Its seen as extra to NHS work. But again the UKA card is a valid competition licence for european (EU) countries.
Sorry but I had to bite, even though its off topic! Christopher I'm much more a capitalist than a socialist but you seem to look at fell running, life and politics in an extraordinarily black and white way.
To say that the 100 years following the Napoleonic War was a success (down to capitalism ), due to its lack of a singular world war is utter bollocks. I'd say that directly and indirectly capitalism led to all sorts of misery.
The Irish potato famine cost what 750,000 deaths alone. The industrial revolution did tons of damage too (read Charles Dickens). On top of that without really thinking too hard there were Afghan wars, the opium wars, the Crimean war, the Indian Mutiny, the American Civil War, the Franco-Prussian wars, the Zulu wars, the Boer war.... and so on. I suspect that capitalism was a route cause in much of all that but, there again, had socialists, fascists, communists or any other 'ist' or 'ism' been in the ascendancy it would still have happened one way or the other anyway.
Last edited by end; 27-06-2008 at 02:35 PM.
You can't blame the Industrial Revolution for Charles Dickens, and anyway he's not that bad.
I'm gonna get that cwazy gwouse...