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Originally Posted by davinxtk
Do you really believe that capitalism lends itself well to the egalitarian traits of human nature?
Do you believe that with the bottom line being stressed as a make it or break it situation, humans will reach out to those who fall behind on their own? Is that capitalism?
Are you under the impression that this farcical societal bent in human nature owes itself to anything other than religious or state encouragement?
Your "big 'C'" Capitalism is what capitalism is. We are the big it, are we not? This is capitalism in practice with a republic, and it isn't working.
If you really think that humans are anything but animals, we may never see eye to eye. Human nature combined with capitalism is the doorway to your animalistic existance.
It's bad capitalism to behave like anything but an animal.
Chew on that for now?
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Ok... *sigh*
I really have already addressed this, but I'm gonna give it another shot on the assumption that I did it wrong the first time, leaving you understandably confused.
I believe that human nature is a two-sided coin. On one side, you have the life you live in private, shared with your family and close friends. On the other side, you have the life in which you must compete with others in the workplace for food, shelter, clothing and big screen televisions. It should be easy to see the differences between these two sides of your own nature no matter what kind of life you live. You can't very well treat your boss the same as you would your dad or your co-worker as your spouse, just as you might not want to treat your children as employees or your pet like it's the UPS guy.
When we deal with our families, we utilize methods specific to that side of our lives. If your brother needs a little cash to squeeze through a tight spot in his life, you can decide whether or not to help him out based on your close familiarity with his lifestyle and his history of decision making, known to you in detail because he's your brother. It's not just that, though... Family is family. Close friends are also special to us, and we go out of our way to look after them, just as they do us.
We use different methods on those that we encounter outside of that familial environment. You have a certain reaction to passing a homeless woman on the street, but if that drunken vagrant happened to be your mom... Well, you'd probably react somewhat differently.
The yang to our family yin is how we interact with people at work. When we leave for work, we trade in our familial nature... the on e that is forgiving, comp[assionate and long-term... for a more competitive one. As I said before, you and I enter the workplace together each day in order to compete for the limited amount of cash available for trade that day. We don't actually work in the same building or even the same trade, but in an indirect sense my industry is competing against your industry... My part of the economy is competing against yours. We also compete against those that we work with directly and those for whom we work. We compete with our customers. Our companies compete against government regulations and unions. It's just one big competition.
If some random guy knocks on the stall door while you are taking a big work-dump and asks if you could spare $20 for a week or so, you'd likely tell him to do something bad to himself and he'd leave no richer. What if he said to you, "But Dood! We work at the same company! It's like I'm your brother!" I doubt you'd change your mind. Maybe not. Maybe you would invite him into the stall so you could better aquaint yourself with his problems and his current situation in life in order to make a more compassionate decision regarding his loan proposal... but I still say I doubt it.
Now, on to why I specify whether certain words that start with c's should be capitalized or not in context...
The first side of our nature, the one we use to deal with family, functions remarkably similar to the precepts of the governmental form Communism. You know how people interact with their family members and close friends, and I've even given you a few examples in case you are an entirely unlikeable orphan with no imagination that lives in a bubble, and you probably know at least a little bit about how Communism works, so I'm gonna spare you a whole paragraph laden with further examples.
The second side of our nature, the competitive one, is the one that looks a lot like the form of human interaction we know as hard, cold Capitalism. When I speak of one or the other form of human nature, therefore, I use the same word, but I do not capitalize it. The natural, human communism, when practiced as a form of Government, is Communism. When we adopt the natural, human part of our human nature I call capitalism... or how we deal with one another at work... as an official foundation of our Governments, we capitalize the word and call it Capitalism.
Is this small part of my overall explanation clear so far?
I'm gonna break now so you can both just respond to this concept.