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Saving the World from its own Destruction

Today is April 4 2007, and the world is going down hill. It all starts with a philosophy introduced in the 19th century during the Industrial Revolution. A philosophy that is greedy, and self centered, it is the idea of making as much money as possible. Most people in the world know this philosophy as capitalism. The idea of evil has just evolved with the rest of the world and is now known as capitalism. In the United States, giant corporations are controlled by greedy CEOs and all they want is to make more money and will do all they can to achieve there goal. One industry that comes into mind is the oil industry. The oil companies are monopolizing the energy of the world. Solar, hydrogen, and fusion power are just a few sources of energy that can be as equally efficient as the burning of fossil fuels, but the greedy capitalists pigs have some how controlled the production of these new types of energy sources. All of this is so they could make more money.

There are a few issues with these greedy actions. One is an issue that we all know about, one that some of us might deny, but it is truly out there, the issue of global warming and the destruction of the planet. The burning of fossil fuels releases mass amounts of carbon dioxide that disrupts the natural carbon cycle of the planet. This ultimately results in the suns energy over heating the planet and raising the temperatures globally.




Another issue that is a result of the capitalists is the war on terror. Throughout the world there are terrorist organizations (the major groups in the Middle East) that hate the idea of democracy and a free nation and for some reason they want to see the destruction of every human being under that type of government. Currently the Middle Eastern country of Iraq is being purged of the fundamentalists groups by the major powers of the world. Some of the bigger countries (such as China) won’t help on the war of terror because the Middle East is one of the major sources of oil in the world, now that all gets back to the greedy business men and Capitalism. If people in the world focused there resources on creating new sources of energy oil wouldn’t be such a problem and the great countries of the world could bring there militaries together into one fighting force and destroy all the terrorists in one group effort. If this does not happen anytime soon, the world might be destroyed by another great power, more powerful then all the money in the world, nuclear war.


The sooner people release that capitalism has gone too far and that greed has overpowered the world, the sooner this planet can be saved and we can change history for the better.






(hey guys i wrote this last month and I am looking for some feedback in my little paper. Looking for positive or negative feedback and also points that might not be accurate. I am very interested in this and hope one day I could change the world for the better. Thank you for your time)


Edited, May 18th 2007 10:27pm by dehorseseraph

Edited, Mar 29th 2011 3:50pm by Xsarus Lock Thread: necro

I actually managed to make my way through it.

Learn how to cite to back up the Shit you say. Your paper is just both opinions and nonstop babble that is ultimately pure garbage.

Also, using paragraphs won't kill you. I promise.

Edited, May 18th 2007 9:51pm by Nightsintdreams

You might want to lighten up on the opinionated rhetoric and actually put some facts and figures in there instead of just tossing assumption around like an 800 lb gorrila...

Paragraphs would help too!


On a more rational "pro versus con" side, you might want to consider the positive effects of capitalism. You seem to focus on the "greed" of capitalism, but I think you're missing the point. Greed exists (and has always existed) whether capitalism exists or not. You don't seriously believe that all mankind was about sharing and fairness right up until the 19th century when capitalism started to take hold do you? Ridiculous assumption...

What capitalism does is recognize that greed exists and that there's no way to take greed out of the economic equation. So istead of fighting greed, it attempts to build an economic structure that focuses greed into a positive effect instead of a negative one. By making the route to riches involve investment and successful business ventures, and making "success" require building a usable product that consumers want to buy, it has the long term effect of making everyon's lives better over time. Sure. The rich stay rich. But they always have. However, in past systems the rich were rich and used their riches to simply make their lives better. Under capitalism, the rich are encouraged (by their own greed) to spend their riches making "new things" which certainly enrich themselves further, but have the positive side effect of improving the quality of life of everyone else as well.


Look around you house sometime. Start listing off all the things you see there. From the lights, to the oven, to the toaster, to the TV, the cable box, your computer, your DVD player, your MP3 player, your gaming console, your stereo sytem. All of these things were built because a "greedy" capitalist wanted to make money. Yet every single one of them definately improved your quality of life. You benefitted even while he got rich. That's what capitalism does.


Yes. Capitalism does reward greed. But when you look a bit more closely you'll relize that it rewards greed that is channeled into productivity. Without capitalism, we'd still have greed. What we wouldn't have is all the hundreds of products that you use and that improve your life every single day. You just might want to think about that before blaming an economic construct for the worlds ills...

Overall, lots of work to be done. Lots of grammatical errors. Lack of paragraphs. Wierd transitions between ideas. Unsupported claims and arguments. Lots of overused rhetoric that serves no purpose.

I tried being impartial even though I disagree with just about everything you said. Good luck. Try reading something other then Marx and Engel.

If you're studying for a degree in biased ranting it's not bad.

P.S. Democracy and Capitalism aren't the same thing

Blah blah blah. Do you really expect me to wade through all that crap, Horse? Cliffs Notes version please.

Totem

Capitalism is greedy. Greedy CEO's are corrupting the world. Especially the owners of evil oil companies. They are suppressing new energy technologies in order to maintain their profits. All of these statements are qualified by saying "some how."

Then he talks about global warming and how greed is the cause.

Capitalism caused the war on terror. Terrorists are trying, for some reason, to kill all of the free people of the world. Capitalist China won't participate because they need the oil provided. New energy sources would allow the world to unite in order to fight terrorism. If the world doesn't get new energy resources we will nuke ourselves.

The sooner people realize that capitalism is killing gaia the sooner we can all live together in harmony and sh*t flowers and rainbows.

I'm gonna go kill myself now.



Edited, May 19th 2007 4:09pm by LurkinAround

Appears to be a narrow & mis-informed diatribe.

Almost made me laugh except I am aware of the prevalence of of this type of belief system.

Thank god none of the evil CEOs' employees want to make more money....or their shareholders....or the people who benefit from the huge tax base provided by succesful entrepenurialism.

Capitalism & "Greed" are even practiced in the animal Kingdom (Parasitism,Symbiosis....the squirrel who stores more nuts than he "needs").

To me its like arguing against human nature, or even nature itself.

Any complex organisms' basic programing directs it to survive....& pro-create, which is harder when said organism is "undercapitalised".

As far as climate change, well take a look at the Kyoto & who is an exempt signatory....developing nations who will be significantly increasing their carbon footprint in the next decade, I believe China plans on increasing their coal burning power plants tenfold. (Capitalists' ?)

Reminds me of the Environmentalists' who wanna tell third world countries how & when they can improve their lot in life. Tell the Cambodian or Laotian et al logger NOT to harvest that old growth mahogany ....Hes'doing it to feed his family.(now lets talk about the methane the Elephant carrying the log will spew, LOL)

Take a moment to think how many more people would starve or be killed if petroleum based technology didnt exist (refrigeration, pesticides', transportation......)

I personally would love to have environmentally neutral ways to accomplish all this, & I believe we are headed in the right direction, but as long as it costs ten bananas to produce eight banans...it wont be done.

Not really going to bother reading it either, but I will say that while I don't support a full blown capitalistic nation (which given America's tax system, we really don't qualify as one), there is a need to maintain a capitalistic incentive. Many people are extrinsically motivated and for them it's necessary. As a nation though, we are approaching a point where basic needs are being met with relative ease and a capitalistic workplace is becoming less and less desirable for many people who are not as motivated by extrinsic monetary rewards to perform.

Edit: P.S. Have you guys missed me? :p /rhetorical Probably won't see much of me for a few months, so some of you will just have to get all your rate-downs in right now.

Edited, May 20th 2007 2:08pm by Kachi

Well, Kachi is right in that America is not a pure capitalist society. I don't know about the whole lack of motivation from money thing though.

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If I could do that, you'd never see my *** here again.

If Capitalism is as simple as a desire for money, everyone's a capitalist.

Firstly, capitalism (whether you're Karl Marx or Al Greenspan) is a complex economic model involving the relationship between the generation of profits and hard work (or the lack of such a connection).

Secondly, economics and political models are related but not dependant.

There is democratic capitalism, undemocratic capitalism, democratic socialism & undemocratic socialism.

The OP needs to get his head around that, and maybe learn to string a sentence together without sounding like a 6 year old.