Capitalism

Capitalism
2006.01.16 1:43

The essence of capitalism lies in the variety of things.
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Any-ism(Score:2)
by Allen Zadr (767458) * <{Allen.Zadr} {at} {gmail.com}> on 2006.01.16 2:18 (#14476077) (Last Journal: 2006.02.02 1:03)
The same could be said for almost any "ism". Most isms are born from a single part of what is already born into human nature. Obviously, human nature itself is far more complex than any single 'ism'.
--Truth and honesty can be compatible with sales and business, it's people who choose otherwise.
Re:Any-ism(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.01.16 2:56 (#14476244) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.04 2:51)
That's what I wanted to say, bingo!
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My Notes on Capitalism(Score:2)
by Le Marteau (206396) on 2006.01.16 2:59 (#14476253) (Last Journal: 2006.02.03 6:17)
Notes, from other sources, which I copied because I thought (at the time) they were of value:--------------------The MOQ ("Metaphysics of Quality" invented by Robert Pirsig) recognises capitalism as a social value pattern and, as such, secondary to intellectual value patterns such as truth, justice and freedom.In the MOQ making money is a social activity that should not dominate the higher intellectual goal of truth, or interfere with perception and pursuit of Dynamic Quality. (Pirsig, 2002d) *A society based on money and profit deprives the whole world, both the human world and nature, of their own proper value. Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence: this essence dominates him and he worships it. Contempt for theory, for art, for history and for man as an end in himself is the real, conscious standpoint and the virtue of the man of money.* (Rader & Jessup, 1976, pp. 323-24)Money is only a measure of social values. It doesn't, for instance, measure biological pain (or pleasure) or the intellectual truth of a statement.The disposition, character, or fundamental values peculiar to a specific person, people, culture, or movement: "They cultivated a subversive alternative ethos" There is an irritating tendency in the West to put everything in a commercial context even when it's inappropriate e.g. instead of being a student or a patient, I become a customer: /'I buy therefore I am.'/
--"If you can think of it, it exists somewhere" - from the "True Stories" (1986) credits.
higher intellectual goals?(Score:1)
by weierstrass (669421) on 2006.01.16 4:48 (#14476850) (http://retropolitan.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.01.28 22:21)
"there is no preordained harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind."friedrich nietzsche.
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Re:My Notes on Capitalism(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.01.18 0:11 (#14490361) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.04 2:51)
Money can only fulfill our short-term demand. If we were in desert, we would spend a lot of money to acquire a drop of water. But if we had a lot of rain, we would spend a lot of money just for a ray of sunshine. Water, sunshine cannot value their importance of their own. Only money can tell their relative value under particular circumstances.
I just wonder how we spend money just for fulfilling our short-time demand. Before we eat dinner, we spend some money for it, but after we ate it, we wouldn't spend the same money for it.
Also the value of same amount of money differs between haves and have-nots. In one dollar, some can buy only one beer, while others can buy ten beers, depending on where-which country you live.
In general, money means nothing, let alone it's nothing to with truth, justice, freedom.
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I thought Capitalism's essence(Score:2)
by sielwolf (246764) on 2006.01.16 3:59 (#14476533) (http://kulturkrieg.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.01.28 8:41)
was that every thing has two values: what someone will pay for it and what someone will sell it for.
--[A country road. A tree. Evening]-Waiting for Godot
Re:I thought Capitalism's essence(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.01.17 23:48 (#14490190) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.04 2:51)
Oh, you shed light on the market in feature of capitalism, there are so many demands, thus so many supplies. Because there is a difference in value between seller and buyer, the difference generates the viablility.
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Yes(Score:2)
by Stargoat (658863) <stargoat@gmail.com> on 2006.01.16 13:40 (#14479503) (Last Journal: 2006.02.03 6:51)
Except instead of a variety of things, the essense of capitalism is a variety of goals.
--The hallmark work of man for the past eight thousand years has been the creation of a more accurate model of reality.
Re:Yes(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.01.18 0:24 (#14490446) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.04 2:51)
Yeah we all have a variety of goals in our lives. All depend on where we put value on them.
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But...(Score:1)
by eglamkowski (631706) <`eglamkowski' `at' `angelfire.com'> on 2006.01.16 22:32 (#14481147) (http://www.angelfire.com/nj/eglamkowski Last Journal: 2006.02.03 22:11)
"People can have the Model T in any color - so long as it's black." -Henry Ford.
--Government IS the problem.
Re:But...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.01.18 0:32 (#14490502) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.04 2:51)
We need to have a healthy social strata in order to have capitalism flourish fully. The essence of capitalism shoud be built on it. But how to have a healthy society, that's the question.
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Re:But...(Score:1)
by eglamkowski (631706) <`eglamkowski' `at' `angelfire.com'> on 2006.01.18 1:04 (#14490809) (http://www.angelfire.com/nj/eglamkowski Last Journal: 2006.02.03 22:11)
In terms of diet and exercise kind of health, routine maintenance, that is purely up the efforts of the individual members of society and there should be nothing more done for it. A people who are unwilling to keep themselves fit are not worthy of greatness. (Which doesn't bode well for the USA...)Issues of health that go beyond the control of individuals, such as chemical waste being dumped in drinking water, does need to be addressed in some other manner, though the exact nature of how to deal with will vary according to each country's cultural and governmental traditions.
--Government IS the problem.[ Parent ]