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Do you think it's a sign of a disgusting system when profit maximization triumphs human value? - KM - 02-19-2014 12:38 PM
Labour is just another commodity....and the lower skills one has, the more easier it is exploited, and the wages remain minimal. The human value component is not factored in because it doesn't matter. Individuals are nothing more than the marketable value for their particular labour. The system doesn't care about YOU as an individual, or only cares to the extent that by doing so the profit margins are increased. But if and when it is possible (as has been the case),the human component will be minimized. Positions are already increasingly dehumanizing and divided. Creativitity is important only when it coincides with increasing profit, NOT when it exists to ensure the betterment of humanity because under capitalism SOCIAL VALUE is meaningless.
Isn't this a sign of a sick system, and what's the remedy?
- Raine - 02-19-2014 12:44 PM
It's nothing new, that's the way the world has always been...
- batman - 02-19-2014 12:50 PM
Go start up a business and sell stuff to customers
I did and its a better feeling than working for other people
- Your mom - 02-19-2014 12:55 PM
And you think all businesses are evil just because they make more money than you do?
- Kristine Sixteen - 02-19-2014 12:58 PM
Duh, as long as humans are.on this earth it always be this way, always.
- Pluto C. Rat - 02-19-2014 01:04 PM
Yes.
So you gotta find the perpetrators...
Let's see... Who are they? Where are they?
Ah... US richclass. There they are.
- honestamerican - 02-19-2014 01:09 PM
Yes.
If you stop and think about it when was Americans were considered generous our nation had the most respect in the world.
- Deaner 2.0 - 02-19-2014 01:13 PM
You assume that one's place in the system is fixed. It is not. Everyone in my family grew up lower-middle class and all of us worked hard to get a better life. There are now CPA's in my family, educators, and medical therapists.
As for "social value", I'm quite happy that it's not factored into economics. Because there is simply no way to quantify the social value of something. No economic system on earth - no capitalism, not communism, not anything between the two, can do that.
- Patrick - 02-19-2014 01:21 PM
Capitalism is the only system in the world where people who were born into a lower class have an equal opportunity to advance into the wealthy class.
Marxism and other government controlled economic systems only ensure everyone except the ones in the government get to stay equally impoverished.
- Happyhoney482 - 02-19-2014 01:24 PM
Yes. This is caused collectively and not by just a certain class as some would believe. Most of us crave an "excessive" lifestyle which widens the gap between rich and poor. The more we crave the BS, the more power we give to those that deal it.