In a capitalistice system, do everyone try to get something for nothing?

Question

Business want cheap labor.
Consumers want low prices.
Business want high profits.
Consumers want social services.

Answer 1

Try as you may in a capitalist system one must achieve their goals. With the exception of those who live off public aid programs.

Answer 2

No, something for nothing is a socialist phenomena, a myth but still socialist myth.

In the free market system people compete with others to produce and sell products or service and sell those to the market so they can make a living. It works well and everyone should try it.

Marxism on the other hand has failed EVERYWHERE. Given that I am completely at a loss to understand why some still want socialism.

Answer 3

Capitalism is an economic system in which the means of production are owned mostly privately, and capital is invested in the production, distribution and other trade of goods and services, for profit in a competitive free market. These include factors of production such as land and other natural resources, labor and capital goods. Various theories have tried to explain what capitalism is, to justify, or critique the private ownership of capital, and to explain the operation of markets and guide the application or elimination of government regulation of property and markets. (See economics, political economy, laissez-faire.)

Capitalist economic practices became institutionalized in Europe between the 16th and 19th centuries, although some features of capitalist organization existed in the ancient world.[1] Capitalism has emerged as the Western world's dominant economic system since the decline of feudalism, which eroded traditional political and religious restraints on capitalist exchange. Since the Industrial Revolution, capitalism gradually spread from Europe, particularly from Britain, across global political and cultural frontiers. In the 19th and 20th centuries, capitalism provided the main, but not exclusive, means of industrialization throughout much of the world.[2]

The concept of capitalism has limited analytic value, given the great variety of historical cases over which it is applied, varying in time, geography, politics and culture. Some economists have specified a variety of different types of capitalism, depending on specifics of concentration of economic power and wealth, and methods of capital accumulation (Scott 2005). During the last century capitalism has been contrasted with centrally planned economies. Most developed countries are usually regarded as capitalist, but some are also often called mixed economies[3] due to government ownership and regulation of production, trade, commerce, taxation, money-supply, and physical infrastructure.

Answer 4

Only rich kids like Bush get something for nothing

Answer 5

If you put it as everyone tries to get the most they can for the minimum price, you'd be a lot closer.

Answer 6

In a capitalist economy, the only way to make progress is to get more back than what you put in.

Answer 7

Strike!!!