I started writing a massive post to counter the topic of this thread, but I was beginning to start an entire book, lol!
Simply put, Capitalism is supposed to be about working hard, giving your best in anything you do and moving up in the workforce so you can become a success. Not everyone is guaranteed this and there will be losers in a capitalist economy. It doesn't mean that they have to stay losers. It's their freedom to choose whether they stay losers or find a new avenue to success. That's the nature of capitalism.
The economy you are seeing now is [i]not[/i] capitalism. It's a hybrid monstrosity that's slowly being morphed into more of a socialistic economy, by the government, where the government dictates who wins and who loses instead of letting the free market decide. Yes, the rich are getting richer and poor are getting poorer, but [i]not[/i] because of capitalism. If you understand basic economics and pay attention to what the crooks in Washington D.C. are doing (both D's and R's), you'll realize this is all a power grab that will result in most everyone losing in the end.
As a side note- not all rich people are evil, fat cats screwing the little, hard-working guy. There are plenty of rich people that actual donate tons of money to charity and build their businesses to promote job growth and opportunity for more Americans to one day become wealthy themselves. That's capitalism at it's best. The major news outlets will rob you of this reality and only focus on the small bunch of rich jerks that take their money and horde it while paying off politicians to help game the system so they can get richer and prevent others from becoming wealthy on their own.
Dang, that was still pretty long. My bad.
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[quote]The economy you are seeing now is [i]not[/i] capitalism. It's a hybrid monstrosity that's slowly being morphed into more of a socialistic economy, by the government, where the government dictates who wins and who loses instead of letting the free market decide.[/quote] Do you know what socialism means? Because it certainly isn't state ownership. Socialism is a mode of production, not a method of resource distribution. The government picking winners and losers is something that has happened throughout the history of capitalism and will continue because the government itself has a class character. The government is allied with the dominant class, i.e. the class the owns the means of productions and exploits the labor of others to acquire surplus value. [quote]As a side note- not all rich people are evil, fat cats screwing the little, hard-working guy.[/quote] While this is true insofar as not every rich person owns some means of production, those who do are inherently exploitative toward the workers. It is by definition that the owners exploit the workers, so to try and pass them off as "not so bad" because they give to charity is like a slave defending his master for feeding him scraps.
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Well it is a debatable topic so not too shaby