So we should punish Bill Gates for his success because others weren't given the same luck in business? I certainly don't agree with that.
You're not against capitalism, from what it sounds like to me. Capitalism isn't to blame for Bill Gates because as much as the government and the general population would like to believe it, we do not live in a purely capitalistic society!
We could go around blaming the Bill Gates of the world, but that's like blaming your cast for your broken arm. You're blaming those who have benefited from the society we DO have.
Don't believe it? I'll give you a perfect example.
Take Joe Farmer. Joe Farmer has a farm in California (yes, there are farms in California). Joe has, oh, say, 500 cows on his property (which, by the way, has long ago been paid for by his father's father). He has a milking machine, a bottling machine, and all the machines that he needs to make yummy bottled milk. Joe Farmer wants to sell his milk, for profit, to the local community that he lives in - there's an apricot farmer, an almond plantation, a few vineyard owners and several small homemakers who sew and cook and clean and could use that yummy bottled milk.
In a capitalist market, Joe Farmer would be free to do so. In the market we have right now, Joe is not free do to so. He has to go through the FDA, he has to work to THEIR standards and specifications, he has to have permits and permissions and "licenses" and just to get a milking business started would cost him thousands upon thousands of dollars.
This isn't a new idea. If we really lived in a capitalist society then yes, people would fail. People fail in every society, until we get to heaven anyways. But there would be so many people like Joe Farmer who would be able to market his product. As it is now (at least in the farming business) a lot of farmers have had to sell their property to the "big" companies because they can't afford to do business for themselves - so they simply "manage" the property that they once owned for the companies that now own their land and their pride. It's disgusting.
But "Capitalism" isn't to blame. Because unlike what it says, Capitalism, in the ideal form, IS free market.
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You're not against capitalism, from what it sounds like to me. Capitalism isn't to blame for Bill Gates because as much as the government and the general population would like to believe it, we do not live in a purely capitalistic society!
We could go around blaming the Bill Gates of the world, but that's like blaming your cast for your broken arm. You're blaming those who have benefited from the society we DO have.
Don't believe it? I'll give you a perfect example.
Take Joe Farmer. Joe Farmer has a farm in California (yes, there are farms in California). Joe has, oh, say, 500 cows on his property (which, by the way, has long ago been paid for by his father's father). He has a milking machine, a bottling machine, and all the machines that he needs to make yummy bottled milk. Joe Farmer wants to sell his milk, for profit, to the local community that he lives in - there's an apricot farmer, an almond plantation, a few vineyard owners and several small homemakers who sew and cook and clean and could use that yummy bottled milk.
In a capitalist market, Joe Farmer would be free to do so. In the market we have right now, Joe is not free do to so. He has to go through the FDA, he has to work to THEIR standards and specifications, he has to have permits and permissions and "licenses" and just to get a milking business started would cost him thousands upon thousands of dollars.
This isn't a new idea. If we really lived in a capitalist society then yes, people would fail. People fail in every society, until we get to heaven anyways. But there would be so many people like Joe Farmer who would be able to market his product. As it is now (at least in the farming business) a lot of farmers have had to sell their property to the "big" companies because they can't afford to do business for themselves - so they simply "manage" the property that they once owned for the companies that now own their land and their pride. It's disgusting.
But "Capitalism" isn't to blame. Because unlike what it says, Capitalism, in the ideal form, IS free market.
But I agree with you on the communism! ;)