Replace Capitalism & Love One Another--Do What??

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The HuffPo Blog Post Of The Day: Replace Capitalism With Loving One Another, Man!Over at the HuffPo, a hippie-dippy writer named Stephen Mo Hanan punched up a post called "Why Save Capitalism?"In case you're wondering, yes, this is the typical short-sighted, tie-died, socialistic, Commie-symp wail-fest against capitalism,

Now I'm not stupid enough to forget that capitalism is also a system that has allowed a substantial though relatively small group of human beings to amass titanic wealth and, so to speak, to capitalize on that wealth by exercising transformative power over the whole planet and everyone on it. If they were all wise and benevolent, that might be a satisfactory arrangement; they aren't, and it isn't. So any discussion of how human history (let alone human well-being) might continue after the demise of capitalism must get a good fix on the roots of greed and why it has persisted despite the abundant evidence of its perversity.

The left has such a myopic view of capitalism. They look at people like Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Michael Bloomberg, etc., etc., and bemoan the fact that capitalism has allowed those people to have so much more money than everyone else.

Meanwhile, they fail to notice the fact that most Americans on the bottom end of the scale live better than the richest Americans did 50 years ago. To be lower middle class in America or in many cases, even poor, is to have a microwave, a 32 inch TV, air conditioning, a computer, a MP3 player, a cell phone, a roof over your head, clothes, and a full belly. Moreover, all that is aside from the political, cultural, and religious freedoms we have in this country that have come about in part because of capitalism. That's one of the secrets of capitalism; it ultimately delivers more than just money. If you don't believe that, ask yourself: would you rather make $25,000 a year and live in the United States or make $500,000 a year and live in Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Afghanistan, or North Korea?

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