The problem is that pesky class in Ethics that people with business degrees had to sit through in college. When they get in the real world... they have to throw ethics out the window because there will be someone waiting to take their lunch who will if they won't. That is the problem with capitalism... it is the Temple of the Dollar. It is a natural thing I think, capitalism is simply natural selection playing itself out in modern society. The problem with natural things, is that animals destroying the babies of their competition is a natural thing... I mean lions snap the necks of Cheetah cubs every chance that they get... because there is competition for resources involved. Competition... what could possibly be wrong with competition? Capitalism is competition... the strongest survives... the survival of the fittest... it is natural selection pure and simple.
As man, we have been endowed with a peculiar ability that we have developed through evolution... it is the ability to feel emotionaly what others feel... empathy! Empathy allows us to look at the weak and feel their pain... it allows us to care for the elderly and heal the sick. Empathy is not a natural feeling, but it is an ability that humans have that clearly separates us from the animal kingdom. Shedding our animal ways is called evolution and to a greater extent... enlightenment. Bucking the desire to crush someone and cultivating the ability to actually empower others is one of the things that mankind must set out to do in order to survive on this planet.
You see what I am getting at right? Capitalism is a system that needs to be reformed if it is going to allow mankind to thrive and survive together. The model of the corporation with it's CEO's and CFO's, Board members that elect these financial officers, and stockholders that actually own the shares of the company that allow it to function, and that have complete ownership of the organization... is a disastrous one for mankind. Many of these stockholders rely on these dividends as a source of wealth. They put great pressure on the board members to elect officers that will push the said corporation to ever higher and higher profits out of pure greed. This is a model that is doomed to destroy our culture and civilization as we know it. There must be a better way... I am not advocating socialism or communism since those noble ideas have been polluted by the very evil and greed that the systems were designed to prevent.
The problem is that the world was run by warlords that gave birth to kings, and pharoahs who in turn gave birth to dukes, czars and counts. Those same families who ruled in their monarchies and their associated bloodlines are still around and still have access to great sums of wealth and power. Combine those people with the descendants of capitalist pioneers like J.P. Morgan and his like and you have a small portion of the world's population who owns the majority of the wealth. The descendants of these folk are the stockholders of today... they will wring every dollar out of society that they can get their hands on...
What to do with these people? What to do...
