Do you think capitalism could die in the next generations to come?

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I mean when the top 10% has more money than the rest, something will happen im not saying in our generation but the ones to come. Economic Inequality is rising, from what we learn in history we go through different phases, until theres some sort of rebelion, in this case it would be something like occupy wall street, but a billion times bigger. I also bellieve we are being brainwashed, almost programed like robots to think that its normal for someone to hold that much wealth, and we have a shot at getting there. What do you think? Capitalism is the more fair economic solution, or its going to explode later?
 
No.

Capitalism will be fine, government will simply have to do more to balance its effects on society.
 
True Capitalism in its essence will never die, but you have to be afraid now since we live in an age where semantic meanings can be changed quite easily based on political intentions just like in George Orwell's 1984. Government will intervene and try to place the blame on other factors why our freedoms have been diminished.
 
slivercord said:
I also bellieve we are being brainwashed, almost programed like robots to think that its normal for someone to hold that much wealth, and we have a shot at getting there. What do you think? Capitalism is the more fair economic solution, or its going to explode later?
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While i do think the destruction of capitalism is entirely possible as it is mostly democratically supported as opposed to legally supported, i dont think it would make sense when push comes to shove as economic inequality is driven by the majority of people choosing to send their money toward billionaires in the form of stock ownership or consumption.

Its like complaining about apple shareowners having too much money when you only want to buy iphones instead of nokias.

Or mark zuckerberg having more money than the bottom 200 million or whatever when people only want to use facebook instead of myspace.

You can try price controlling the ownership of stock, but that will produce shortages, and then you might see something like 10$ to make a facebook account because somebody wants free college, but nobody wants to pay the 10 dollars for the account so the funds to free college go bust from the operating costs of running facebook exceed the revenue they bring in.
 
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If the liberal elite are allowed to continue the destruction of the middle class, then yes, capitalism will die. Pretty quickly i believe.
There is a ton at stake this cycle, real conservatism needs to be honored and rebuild the middle class in a Reagan/Thatcher way, with a bit more honesty. The lib's say the economy is doing great, unemployment is down, but the college kids are freaking because they can't get a return on their education investment. Yes, there are jobs, but few careers. If this is not corrected, and yes, you have to fight the people that need it the most to get it done, we will continue the slide toward socialism.
There had never been a real middle class in the UK until Thatcher showed some favor for business. She basically created the middle class and life has been much better for everyone.
 
I don't think capitalism will die, but we are inevitably moving into a more socialistic welfare state. With automation increasing in scale, sophistication, and efficiency, there's just not going to be enough shit left over that people need to do.
 
Only a total fucktard would want Capitalism to die... or a Communist Authoritarian.

 
Capitalism will be fine for now, but social Marxism is thriving.
 
Capitalism hasn't existed in generations. Ever since its inception, the wealthy elite were already using their influence and monetary influence to get lawmakers to pass legislation which would allow them to continuously feed off the trough of public finance. These days they call it subsidies, or corporate welfare, but as other people have stated, in most of the western world "capitalism" seems only to apply to average persons' economic quandaries while you have national socialism for corporations with the right connections in Washington.
 
In the end there will be totalitarian one world govt. The New World Order that is mentioned by most of our presidents and vice presidents.
 
it won't die until Sharia Law takes over, which may be sooner than anyone anticipates.
 
capitalism provided the fastest growth in living standards, of all time.

every attempt at communism ends in absolute disaster

someday we may have a new system, but its not going to be for centuries at least

income inequality is mostly from rich people getting way richer than before, while the middle classes growth has been given to developing countries instead. we are still in a net growth, its just the american middle class who is decelerating relative to everyone else
 
If the thrust to make the world a sheikdom continues then it will die. Along with every other facet of civilization.
 
Global capitalism has reduced poverty levels more than any other force in history.

The bottom is better off (developing world), the top (west rich) is way better off, while the middle (read the poor and middle of the west) has stayed still and maybe even fallen back a bit.

Hopefully as force it is here to stay and more so, it stays global (that's right, I said it).

But mechanisms that share the wealth and maintain social legitimacy are arguably required IMO.

We don't need such massive concentrations at the top for capitalism to work properly.
 
Capitalism just means belief in property essentially.
 
It's not going to explode, but governments don't typically like less control as time goes by.

As for wealth inequality, extreme global poverty fell under 10% for the first time in 2015, which is something like a 75% reduction in the last 1/4 century, and over half of Americans are globally considered high income, and almost 90% are considered upper middle class. There are more new millionaires in the US every years than any other country.

Nobody wants to consider all the ways life has gotten easier, like almost everybody having a smart phone and life expectancy getting higher. Talk about brainwashing, Bernie's telling everyone that people are dying in the streets because there are evil rich guys who have too much money and they owe everyone money on top of being the ones who make life easier. Oh, we all still expect their products, like Amazon, Facebook, Walmart, cheap quick food, medicine, iphones, google, those are all just things we're owed apparently, but we also want their profits from providing it so Bernie can go buy a 4th house.
 
slivercord said:
I mean when the top 10% has more money than the rest, something will happen im not saying in our generation but the ones to come. Economic Inequality is rising, from what we learn in history we go through different phases, until theres some sort of rebelion, in this case it would be something like occupy wall street, but a billion times bigger. I also bellieve we are being brainwashed, almost programed like robots to think that its normal for someone to hold that much wealth, and we have a shot at getting there. What do you think? Capitalism is the more fair economic solution, or its going to explode later?
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RT: A new Harvard University Poll suggests 51% of young Americans age 18-29 oppose Capitalism in it's current form... Do you think this poll is just politics, or do you agree that there is something wrong with the US economic system as it operates today?

Ron Paul: I think the problem is all in semantics. When they say they oppose today’s capitalism, I oppose today’s so-called capitalism. I don’t even like the word “capitalism,” I like “free markets.” But if you say “free markets” and “capitalism”together, we don’t have that. We have interventionism. We have a planned economy, we have a welfare state, we have inflationism, we have central economic planning by a central bank, we have a belief in deficit financing. It is so far removed from free-market capitalism that it’s foolish for people to label it free market and capitalize on this and say: “We know it’s so bad. What we need is socialism.” That is a problem.

That is a problem in definitions and understanding of what kind of policies we have. I am a champion of free markets, but not of the current system that we have today. I am highly critical of it because it is designed to fail. It is designed to reward the rich; it is designed inevitably to destroy the middle class, and also to finance some of the worst things in government: all the deficits with the welfare state and for the warfare state. So yes, it’s failing. People should reject what we have, but they shouldn’t reject liberty and freedom and sound economic policies because that is not the problem. The problem is we don’t have enough free markets.

RT: In the same poll it is said that Senator Bernie Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, has been the most popular candidate for America’s 18-29-year-olds. Despite the fact that he is now losing steam, as we’ve seen on the campaign trail, what does it really say to you about what’s driving this voting pattern?

Ron Paul: He’s tapped into something, something that I’ve talked about for years and tapped into when I was a candidate. And that is to describe the frustrations, the evil, and the nonsense of what we have. The problem with Bernie and myself is that he sees it quite differently. He thinks that it’s too much freedom and too much capitalism. And I see it as too much government; it’s too much of interventionist planned economy, which leans itself to fascism. But the young people might not understand the economics and what free markets are really all about, and they don’t understand central banking. And Bernie doesn’t understand that we have to get rid of central planning – from the Central Bank – if we want to help these people.

The current economic system is designed to fail, but so was socialism. What we need to go toward is property ownership, voluntary contracts and individual liberty in getting rid of the central bank.

http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/i-oppose-todays-so-called-capitalism
 
luckyshot said:
I don't think capitalism will die, but we are inevitably moving into a more socialistic welfare state. With automation increasing in scale, sophistication, and efficiency, there's just not going to be enough shit left over that people need to do.
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Baseless propaganda and NWO conspiracy theories aside, this will ultimately be the reason for the decline of capitalism. New occupations will be created in budding fields, but it will do little to offset the rise of automation. There simply won't be enough jobs to go around, unless some sort of global pact is made to stunt the growth of industrial tech, for the sake of keeping people at work.
 
Capitalism is already dead, in recent polls even Republicans turning against the free market.
 
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