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RE: Break The Matrix
Thanks for the responses @joeyarnoldvn, I appreciate that a lot my friend :-)
We'll have to politely disagree on this subject though; I can't see how capitalism is in any way inducive to democracy, freedom, or any of the other ideals common to almost all of us. Free markets don't exist, that's just impossible; regulating the market starts very early, by just deciding WHAT can be owned or traded. We can't trade humans, for example. That's a good thing, but also the end of any free market ideal. All systems die eventually, and capitalism's time has come and gone a while ago now...
If you study psychology, you can see the patterns in history of what happens to people. You can the choices that people make and made on average. You can disagree with history, but why? You are not disagreeing with me. Why? Because I don't have an opinion. I can tell you what I saw. I can tell you what I see. I study anthropology. So, you can choose to disagree with what motivates and drives people to work very hard to make things and everything else. We all know what motivates people. Some of us can be motivated by different things. Regardless, we should not ignore averages. You are focused on minority ideology. So, you are ignoring how things are already. You are ignoring generalities of how people act. If you want a better future, start with how things are in real life and not in a theoretical hypothetical.
So, educate me then ;-) You seem to know what motivates people, so tell me. And also tell me what they're motivated to do exactly. And let me point out that the "theoretical hypothetical" is simply how humans have lived for the majority of the species' existence; egalitarian tribes with no personal property. Loving any -ism is alien to me, unless it's humanism or a love for humanity. We're not bad my friend. We are not the problem. We're not born sinful, we're not born greedy, we're just born. And after that the world shapes us, and if the world keeps telling you that you're intrinsically bad, through the sins of the father or through the misinterpretation of "survival of the fittest" into "we're inherently selfish and greedy," and we actually believe that... well, you see what comes of that; we're living it.
Capitalism isn't nature, it's a set of rules, a human made set of rules. That's the first thing to realize, and then we can investigate how this set of rules came to be, without clinging on to fantasies about a free market; it's a set of rules to begin with.
I do disagree with you, because you do have an opinion, or do you believe your opinion is factual? I disagree with your, and the general explanation of history and the economy. A whip motivates people to "work very hard" in that sense capitalism is a substitute for the whip. See how many ways one can attack this problem?
Oh, and it is capitalism that I'm against because all things you mention, cronyism, monopolism, corporatism, technocracy, tyranny, plutocracy and globalism (NOT internationalism), are just capitalism matured. Socialism for the rich has nothing to do with socialism and everything with capitalism.
Anyhow, we have differing views on the economy, and that's great because somewhere out there, there is a factual truth to be found. I'm convinced that we can't solve our problems with the tools that created them...