Quote from: Beliathon on October 11, 2014, 08:27:29 PM

Quote from: jonald_fyookball on October 11, 2014, 08:17:14 PM

And 50 million people died of starvation under Mao's communism.
What does that say about the alternatives to capitalism?

It only says that you're looking backwards 50 years in time for solutions instead of looking forwards. It also says that your mind is closed on this matter.

No, it simply is one good example that alternatives to capitalism
fail. To the extent they go against free trade, they fail. The
greatest amount of freedom was found in early america, which
is why it boomed and became the super power it is. As
the USA became increasingly socialistic, it started to decline.
Communism is even farther on the wrong side of the scale,
and every communistic society (China, Russia, Cuba) has
the results to show for it. China now is rising to the
extent the free market is allowed to flourish.

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Quote from: jonald_fyookball on October 11, 2014, 08:17:14 PM

Will you please just give it a rest dude?

"Quiet down, serf! You're upsetting the masters! Why can't you just accept your place as an unthinking wage-slave like the rest of us?"

No, i'm telling you shut up already because
its impossible to provide a better alternative
to capitalism. Clearly you would have done
so already if you could.

The "masters" (if by masters you mean
parasitical elites) don't want free markets.
(Free markets are synonymous with capitalism.)

Elites don't want that. They want control,
politically-based business dynamics, central
banking, and corporatism.

As for forward thinking...

Like I said, tell me when you figure out the
next paradigm. But you simply raging against the
machine is convincing no one and accomplishing
nothing.