We are controlled by the decisions of firms everywhere. Our labour is a commodity and the value of it is based on the market value of labour for that particular industry. We are compelled to sell our labour, to be exploited by those who control the means of production, and to continue to submit to antagonistic interests and to sacrifice our ethics in order to survive. We have no control over our own trade; we can be fired if we dont do what we’re told. We are required to work a certain amount of hours and spend our lives generating profit for those who own the business. The capitalist mode of production has destroyed the family and destroyed enjoyable labour. We are agents in upholding what is contrary to our innate desires. We support the system by our every action. The only escape is to make a livelihood on our own, but the majority of people lack the means and training to support ourselves in the modern world, therefore, for the most part we are controlled by businesses. Although they do consider our needs to the extent that it maximizes profit, they also manufacture new "needs" that we buy into to make up for our alienation that the capitalist system produces. The businesses influence the media and influence political policies, so they control much more than economic decisions, but a culture as a whole. The police also act as an organization that upholds property rights and those that support the status quo. The use of force is therefore implied to maintain economic hegemony. To the extent that it influences our whole life, isnt it a dictatorship?
we have collectively chosen to do this. humans act like herd. we have been corralled by fear and false wants into believing that capitalism, with its inherent flaws, is the best way. all other economic systems have been and will continue to be roundly denounced by those in whose benefit this system currently works. it will only change when we no longer place our faith in this fallible system rife with exploitation and decide to create a truly civilized system. until that happens we will continue to spend generation after generation thankful for our wage slavery.
on the bright side at least we are not following the chinese into authoritarian capitalism. on the down side by participating in this system we endorse it.
February 24th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
Nope.
Dictatorships oppress people beyond anything you have ever perceived.
References :
February 24th, 2010 at 3:45 pm
You need to stop watching Michael Moore Movies. From your paragraphless rant its obvious its effecting your composition skills and more importantly your brain waves.
References :
February 24th, 2010 at 3:57 pm
Jesus, liberals are stupid.
What capitalistic dictator told you to buy a computer and sign up for an internet service?
References :
February 24th, 2010 at 4:24 pm
I’m not reading your entire block of print. Paragraphs man. Gees.
Anyways, here is your answer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76frHHpoNFs
Prove it wrong.
References :
February 24th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
that is factually incorrect.
you are controlled by no one. you can buy or not buy anything you want/don’t want. you can also make and sell anything you want (as long as it is legal).
you don’t have to sell your labor, you can toil in your own soil to grow vegetables for you own food and sell the extra to pay your property taxes.
you are only beholden to your own desire to have the nifty things the big corporations offer you.
References :
February 24th, 2010 at 4:59 pm
Why don’t you just start your own business?
Ain’t no law that you have to work for anybody else, right?
Also, you don’t HAVE to buy from Abercrombie and Fitch…those manufactured needs you are talking about are easy to resist. Just don’t buy that crap. Live more simply, and it is better for the environment.
Sooooo, what is your alternative? Letting "the government" own everything and tell you what you must do and give you little handouts? I think that you have the wrong idea of dictatorship
References :
February 24th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
Actually, government controlled economic systems are closer to the model of economic dictatorships. It is important to remember one thing: you cannot escape greed and self-interest. It rules in any system. Now, do you want that system of greed to accrue to the government or to the people and the companies they own?
References :
30 years practicing economics
February 24th, 2010 at 5:20 pm
No. Where do you kids get this crap? From your university professors who live in a campus coccoon and preach their propaganda to "students" who are naive and uninformed?
References :
February 24th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
we have collectively chosen to do this. humans act like herd. we have been corralled by fear and false wants into believing that capitalism, with its inherent flaws, is the best way. all other economic systems have been and will continue to be roundly denounced by those in whose benefit this system currently works. it will only change when we no longer place our faith in this fallible system rife with exploitation and decide to create a truly civilized system. until that happens we will continue to spend generation after generation thankful for our wage slavery.
on the bright side at least we are not following the chinese into authoritarian capitalism. on the down side by participating in this system we endorse it.
References :
February 24th, 2010 at 5:41 pm
No. Please note we are not Denmark or Sweden, we are much , much larger. Their way could never work here. Ours works perfectly for us.
References :
February 24th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
no as you have the freedom to move within the system. you have the choice to work or not work or work on what you want and charge what you want for your services freely. hence open trade. ergo its not a dictatorship.
but i get where your coming from. to your everyday man who has limited abilities/education/skills/contacts/money etc etc life will seem dictated to him where he needs to work in order to survive.
in essence it isnt a dictatorship, but the bounds of freedom are very small for a large majority
References :
February 24th, 2010 at 6:25 pm
Well, I didn’t read your details because it was long and paragraph free, but to answer the question….Yes, it is an economic dictatorship. Corporations rule this country.
References :
February 24th, 2010 at 7:03 pm
Have you visited the CPUSA website? Couldn’t tell at all……
References :
February 24th, 2010 at 7:21 pm
Absolutely! It’s also a "trap economy". A lot of money are made because companies require you sign contracts while including options that you would never need (cable channels that you never watch, functions that you will never use). Companies change terms of contracts that would allow them to fine you and generate substantial amount of extra income.
Economical freedom is myth and illusion.
References :
February 24th, 2010 at 7:59 pm
Pure Capitalism is designed to concentrate all wealth into the hands of fewer and fewer. The logical ultimate outcome is that it destroy itself by destroying through denial of resources the very "chattel" population that enabled it.
When that happens, the cycle must begin again from scratch as populations gradually increase once again through more cooperative economics: Something antithetical to pure Capitalism.
References :