Capitalism and you?

Question

What does it mean to you?

Answer 1

The poor and middle class work to support the rich.

Answer 2

Explotation. Financial limitations. You can only get so far before you fall on the mercy of others who are only out to make money. If someone won't give you a job you're screwed. If you cannot raise enough capital to set up your own business you are screwed. If you set up your own business and it fails you are screwed. If you want to go to college but cannot raise the money to pay the fees you are screwed. Your dreams come to nothing.

Basics of life such as housing and healthcare being "sold" by people who want to make money and don't care if you can "afford" to pay for these need.

Capitalism does not offer true freedom. If you cannot afford to go to college you cannot better yourself to a degree where you can go far in life. You end up stuck in a miserable minimum wage job for the rest of your life being exploited by the rich and ekeing out an existence on peanuts. Then you get told that you are only there because you are stupid, lazy or unmotivated and you deserve your fate.

Capitalism needs to be tempered with Socialism to even the playing field.

Answer 3

it seems 'to me' to be an old dinosaur. as standards of education among the masses improve, and social awareness grows along with it, it is increasingly laid open to growing criticism. and is tolerated less and less. the have's and have nots thing seems to grow and grow. and economic migration is one of the inevitable results of it. (and that cannot be sustained long term) it will meen an ever mobile circle of poverty moving around the earth following a restless nomadic world population. its utter madness that the vast magority be pushed around and manipulated by the few. capitalism is an all consuming monster that seems to steal reason from the minds of 'outherwise' decent human beings. time we all worked for the whole!! its a good ethic. its how we started in the first place.

Answer 4

To have the freedom to capitalize on an idea you have as well as others to do the same. It stimulates the imagination of a nation. Government needs to back off, it has become so difficult to even try that it is stifling. So many regulations, licenses, wow. It has become almost impossible for the average person to pursue their dreams...Some regulation is needed (quality control for health reasons) but most of it isn't.

Answer 5

It means something good in the correct dosages. Uncontrolled it means capitalising on any resources available, without consideration to the long-term cost - it means that profit comes before anything else. and that everything has a prices - there is no morality aside from what can be sold or not sold.

Given limits and controls, it can be a healthy means of people making a living, a means of developing technology, and enabling healthy competition.

Answer 6

Limited government role in the free market, limited price controls such as taxes. I know that you can't have absolutely 0 government involvement in a given market, but less is better.

Answer 7

Above all - Freedom from the Nanny State

Answer 8

A job and I am limited by my own actions how far I can go in this world that I am not limited by government or people who take my money that I earn and waste it.

Answer 9

Chances.
Under any other approach, there are not as many chances.

Answer 10

im not sure any more. all this selling of america s causing me to rethink it.