Is a heavily capitalist society good for freedom of the individual ?

Question

Or are you more or less owned by a company and the only freedom one has to to change owners by quiting and trying to get someone else to buy you ?

Does the capitolist syestem just rename slavery to employment ?



I am talking about a heavily capitolist society - that creates hordes of poor and a few rich with a slim but grateful middle class that dare not get out of line .....


Have we gone from emerging from asiatic chaos to going back into it (the discription above to the extreme)

boltthrow...

Yes yes we are -

I think you should just start lieing to me about things like that ok

Answer 1

I think either far left or far right corrupts. The supposedly capitalist government today actually makes free markets, in some ways, more difficult. Yes, the middle class are slaves to their jobs. Certainly the working poor. Increasingly upper income, as well. No matter how much we have, we want more and more. We are never content. That drives our economy. The consolidation of companies make it less of a free market economy because it becomes increasingly difficult for smaller businesses to enter the marketplace and become sucessful.

Moderation in all things...

Answer 2

basic freedom to me is to be able to move myself without hidrance to work in a differnet field or different place. But that freedom is directly associated with my skill in my trade. If someone has no skill, they have less freedom and generally work paycheck to paycheck because they have no choice but to continue to work where they are. So, by being reasonably intelligent, healthy, and phyically capable I have had a reasonably free life. This is a benefit of Capitalism, but not a monetary one. I choose lifestyle over dollars. If someone cannot escape the factory scene, he may be a modern serf. But I am the wandering blacksmith who know the secret of iron. Evolution never has stopped...it continues to this day...my hope is in my child to be successful in his own small way to allow his children to be more than just property.

Answer 3

This is an excellent question and I believe the answer is no. I can't understand uber-libertarians who read Ayn Rand and think capitalism is the salvation of humankind. Why don't they open up their eyes and look at the real world of capitalist slavery?

Answer 4

I can just see you, sitting in some cafe drinking lattes with your friends, discussing politics and philosophy. Meanwhile, the merchant who has sold you the goods is in the back counting the coffee beans. It would appear that you're almost totally free.

Your breaks over now, better get back to work.

Answer 5

In an actual free market, everyone has maximum choice, no one is telling you "Do this" or "Don't do that" (unless you're stealing, lying, killing, or otherwise resorting to coercion: that's unacceptable). Every citizen is their own business: you offer what you can do, or have, in exchange for what someone else has, or can do. No one is forced to trade. Unfortunately, our country isn't free enough yet. There is much corruption and pernicious regulation that must be eliminated for all the people to truly flourish.

Answer 6

Capitalism is by definition good for the individual.... its communism that puts the will of the country ahead of the will of the individual.....

Answer 7

arent we all just a number to someone else?

Answer 8

OH come on!! would you rather be a Communist?

Answer 9

adapt and overcome.