I've been pondering this for the last hour or so... What is the point, the grand scheme, the end goal of capitalism as a person existing within it?
Is it to simply accumulate as much wealth as you can for yourself and family? Is that the end goal? And when is enough wealth enough?
I'm not trying to say Capitalism is bad, but I do feel that we need to as a race of humans start to think that this planet, and it's people are more connected than just competitors trying to take our resources... we are more than that...
Should we not try and help others to live happy as we do? I can't help but feel that capitalism's sole goal is to pit one another against each other in order to claim a resource, or wealth...
What does constant compeition do for us as a people, a society in the long run? Why do we as individuals have to compete on an every day basis... Should we not as a society ever do anything to benefit everyone?
When I boil down the end result of capitalism, I feel the end result is for everyone to act and live as if on an island, isolated from fellow man in an eternal struggle to gather resources in direct competition with your neighbor.
That doesn't feel like the path to true happiness... Where are we going as a global society if Capitalism is our greatest attempt to bring freedom and liberty to the world... Will our legacy simply be that we installed greed and isolationism through out the country, where we look at everyone trying to compete for what we have, instead of looking at others as to what we can do together and what we can achieve together?
Looking at our research and R&D facilities, and how that business works, we used to encourage universities to develop new things, now instead of sharing ideas, we horde them in order to turn a profit... which could be why we actually had major medical breakthroughs in the past like curing Polio, and other major diseases and now all we can do it put bandaids on the medical mysteries. Instead of sharing information, we have created silos of secretive business where there sole goal is to discover something they can make a profit from, not curing or eliminating disease.
I do not think based on the teachings of the Bible, that the big J intended humanity to turn against one another in order to compete for every little scrap of resource available, nor did he intend for us to shun helping those in need and doing whatever it takes to shield yourself from society in your own attempt to aquire wealth...
I'm confused to see what the end result, the end game, the impact that capitalism will have on humanity, and if it is a good thing. I look towards the future, and feel that a society that works in order to make life better for everyone is a better place than a society that does whatever it takes to horde wealth at the expense of everyone else...
Is it to simply accumulate as much wealth as you can for yourself and family? Is that the end goal? And when is enough wealth enough?
I'm not trying to say Capitalism is bad, but I do feel that we need to as a race of humans start to think that this planet, and it's people are more connected than just competitors trying to take our resources... we are more than that...
Should we not try and help others to live happy as we do? I can't help but feel that capitalism's sole goal is to pit one another against each other in order to claim a resource, or wealth...
What does constant compeition do for us as a people, a society in the long run? Why do we as individuals have to compete on an every day basis... Should we not as a society ever do anything to benefit everyone?
When I boil down the end result of capitalism, I feel the end result is for everyone to act and live as if on an island, isolated from fellow man in an eternal struggle to gather resources in direct competition with your neighbor.
That doesn't feel like the path to true happiness... Where are we going as a global society if Capitalism is our greatest attempt to bring freedom and liberty to the world... Will our legacy simply be that we installed greed and isolationism through out the country, where we look at everyone trying to compete for what we have, instead of looking at others as to what we can do together and what we can achieve together?
Looking at our research and R&D facilities, and how that business works, we used to encourage universities to develop new things, now instead of sharing ideas, we horde them in order to turn a profit... which could be why we actually had major medical breakthroughs in the past like curing Polio, and other major diseases and now all we can do it put bandaids on the medical mysteries. Instead of sharing information, we have created silos of secretive business where there sole goal is to discover something they can make a profit from, not curing or eliminating disease.
I do not think based on the teachings of the Bible, that the big J intended humanity to turn against one another in order to compete for every little scrap of resource available, nor did he intend for us to shun helping those in need and doing whatever it takes to shield yourself from society in your own attempt to aquire wealth...
I'm confused to see what the end result, the end game, the impact that capitalism will have on humanity, and if it is a good thing. I look towards the future, and feel that a society that works in order to make life better for everyone is a better place than a society that does whatever it takes to horde wealth at the expense of everyone else...
