Does Capitalism Really Exist?

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Uploaded by on Apr 22, 2008

Everybody says that it does, but I'm not so sure, myself.

Are corporations really capitalist? What about "Mom and Pop" stores? Are they the same, or are they fundamentally different?

What the hell IS "capitalism", really?

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  • Only about 3% of the total money in existence in a society is in coins and notes. The remaining 97% only exists in ledgers and databases it is what is called 'Abstract money'. It is banks that create this money out of nowhere literally with a few strokes of a keyboard. Banks don't lend out their customers' money nor do they lend out their own money. They create money through loans and lend that out. All money except that 3% in coins & notes comes into circulation as debt!

  • @MissLadyboy007 Yeah, it's pretty ghastly.

    You might be interested in a long essay by Murray Rothbard called "The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar". It's online somewhere. Also, try doing a search on "local currencies" and a unit of local money currently in existence here in the US -- in the Berkshires (Western Massachussets/Norman Rockwell country) called "Berkshares".

  • We never won the Cold War, we lost, therefore what we have now isn't capitalism. Russia and China knew that if they faked the fall of their empires, and opened their doors to the free market, that greedy capitalists would find it irresistable to accept the cheap labour in China and Russia. The end result is America has now lost it's industrial capacity and has a huge trade deficit. Russia and China are just waiting for our economy to further fall, then comes invasion, communism, checkmate.

  • Well, I'm not sure that pure communism OR capitalism is ever truly possible. I think that what we've always really had, is a kind of ethno-nepotism, where monetary circulation is largely confined to certain ethnicities, and so whichever ethnicity establishes and maintains ownership over the money-minting organizations themselves -- such as the Fed -- will automatically be the wealthy ethnicity of a region.

    I've become convinced that everything is just race war, be it covert or open.

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  • You should probably just connect the dots for us here -- it's 2011, we're all thoroughly Bilderbergered, our brains are tired.

  • I agree. Government treasuries, under someone's control and dictates (in America's case, the Federal Reserve) mint and distribute money only to certain select people in order to start the circulation going. So that right there is where it's already arbitrary socialism to begin with.

    But nobody likes to think about this -- it's too scary. But who gets handed the money first makes all the difference, because if they run an organization, they then get to hand off what they like.

  • Crony capitalism... neponomics.

  • Capitalism and Corporatism are not the same thing. To learn more, read my website

    libertyeverafter [dot] com

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