American capitalism gone with a whimper

[Accountable]

I have only one issue with this line of thinking.

When people speak of "garnering more profits" - they make it sound like something evil. Unfortunately, we all want the economy to grow. We all want to make more money. We all want to be able to buy and spend with a little more comfort. We'd all like to own more things like a home, and be in less or no debt. Unfortunately, NONE of these things can happen if businesses aren't profitable. It bothers me when people believe that "profits" only exist in the form of a fat paycheck given to some asshole in a business suit. In reality, profits = expanding operations, opening new offices or plants, hiring new employees, reasearching new innovations and technologies, etc. When we start deciding that it's somehow bad to profit, we have decided that our entire system is bad.

The system is good. The system is outstanding. The problem is the short-sightedness of eporting for maximum profit at the cost of the long-term damage it does to the US. Hell, we're all too short-sighted nowadays.

 

[Minor Axis]

GREED won't work with Capitalism, Socialism or Communism. (its the other way round actually - capitalism, socialism or communism won't work with greed)

Any system is only as good as those people in charge. If could be perfect but if it is corrupt, then well... We've proven that in the last 20 years.