Comments on: Another non-argument for the failure of capitalism http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/another-non-argument-for-the-failure-of-capitalism/ Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:44:58 +0000 hourly 1 By: Cheryl Boswell http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/another-non-argument-for-the-failure-of-capitalism/comment-page-1/#comment-749 Cheryl Boswell Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:09:29 +0000 http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/?p=2188#comment-749 Please, more like this! Also, please write about the reasons that capitalism is the only ethical system of economics. Working for and getting to keep what you earn is not greed -- regardless of whether it is a small farm on 40 acres or a business like Microsoft -- it is an individual right: the right to own property. The word "selfish" and "selfishness" are not terms the average American will ever embrace, even though they may be literally true. Instead, speak in terms of the right to own and keep property, because everyone understands that on a very fundamental level. Only true thugs will reject the concept "the right to own property." Please, more like this! Also, please write about the reasons that capitalism is the only ethical system of economics. Working for and getting to keep what you earn is not greed — regardless of whether it is a small farm on 40 acres or a business like Microsoft — it is an individual right: the right to own property.

The word “selfish” and “selfishness” are not terms the average American will ever embrace, even though they may be literally true. Instead, speak in terms of the right to own and keep property, because everyone understands that on a very fundamental level. Only true thugs will reject the concept “the right to own property.”

]]> By: Ron Watkins http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/another-non-argument-for-the-failure-of-capitalism/comment-page-1/#comment-711 Ron Watkins Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:23:17 +0000 http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/?p=2188#comment-711 Just what does one "call" our system today (other that a mixed economy and I suspect that is a nice way of putting it.) Liberal Fascism (per Goldberg)? From my own observation -- I keep trying to answer the question: "What can one do now? Where to invest now? What can I do to protect wealth?, What can I do to grow wealth? Thank you for your past and future thoughts/essays/commentary. Best regards, Ron Just what does one “call” our system today (other that a mixed economy and I suspect that is a nice way of putting it.) Liberal Fascism (per Goldberg)? From my own observation — I keep trying to answer the question: “What can one do now? Where to invest now? What can I do to protect wealth?, What can I do to grow wealth? Thank you for your past and future thoughts/essays/commentary. Best regards, Ron

]]> By: Jeff Minder http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/another-non-argument-for-the-failure-of-capitalism/comment-page-1/#comment-708 Jeff Minder Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:45:22 +0000 http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/?p=2188#comment-708 Thanks for this reminder. I fear that capitalism is gone and we will find a poorer experience all over the world. We, as a people and civilization, took capitalism as far as we would let it grow. Ignorance is bliss. Thanks for this reminder. I fear that capitalism is gone and we will find a poorer experience all over the world. We, as a people and civilization, took capitalism as far as we would let it grow. Ignorance is bliss.

]]> By: Wingnut http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/another-non-argument-for-the-failure-of-capitalism/comment-page-1/#comment-703 Wingnut Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:54:53 +0000 http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/?p=2188#comment-703 Hi You DO see the pyramid scheme symbol on the back of the USA one dollar bill, right? You DO see the servitude infestation in capitalism, right? And do you see the "pay up or lose your wellbeing" Chicago mob-like felony extortion widespread within capitalism? Do you see the "join or starve" felony extortion done to the 18 year olds... by this ugly competer's church called capitalism? See how forcing competer's religions onto 18 year olds... kills membership in the cooperator's church (Christianity/socialism)?? Do you understand that AmWay (American Way) (New World Order) got "the exclusive" (legal tender) on the TYPE of survival coupons (money) accepted in supply depots (stores) and leverages 18 year olds into the organization via that felony activity as well? (It puts AmWay-coupon slaving requirements called price tags... on all the survival goods). Do you understand how farmyard pyramids work... from your childhood?? Remember?? Upper 1/3 are "heads in the clouds" while the kids on the bottom ALWAYS GET HURT from the weight of the world's knees in their backs? Still with me? Do you see anything illegal, immoral, or just plain sick... in any of this pyramid scheme's activities? Us American Christian socialists are still patiently awaiting the natural fall of the pyramid-o-servitude, or the busting of the free marketeers felony... by the USA Dept of Justice. Us Christians are VERY CLOSE to issuing a cease and desist order until the servitude and inequality goes away... which means it turns into a commune. Commune is a word we LOVE when used in the word "community"... but its one the caps HATE when used in the term "commune-ism". Go fig. PROGRAMMED!! Do a Google IMAGE SEARCH for 'pyramid of capitalist' to see a full color picture made way back in 1911, when capitalism was first discovered to be a con/sham instigated by the Free Masons/Illuminati. Folks sure bought into the thing... hook, line, and sinker just the same. The caps didn't even check if a string was attached! Now THAT'S easy fishing, eh? Time to level the felony pyramid scheme called capitalism. Abolish economies and ownershipism worldwide, and hurry. Economies just cause rat-racing, and rat-racing causes felony pyramiding. BUST IT, America! Look to the USA military supply/survival system... (and the USA public library system) for socialism and morals done right. Equal, owner-less, money-less, bill-less, timecard-less, and concerned with growth of value-criteria OTHER THAN money-value. Quit doing monetary discrimination immediately, and make it illegal. There are MANY measurement criteria of "value"... not just dollars. Try morals, efficiency, discrimination-levels, repairability, etc etc. Economies are cancerous tumors, and to cheer for their growth... is just insane. Profiting causes inflation, so if caps LIKE inflation, and if they LIKE a terrible time in afterlife when they meet the planet's ORIGINAL OWNER before caps tried to squat it all with ownershipism, then keep it up with the felony pyramiding. I dare you. While us Christians are finally bulldozing that pyramid scheme back to level, lets make servitude and "join or starve" (get a job or die) illegal in the USA, and lets level the architecture seen in USA courtrooms, too. Right now, USA courtrooms are church simulators or "fear chambers", by special design. Sick. Isn't that back-of-the-dollar pyramid... a Columbian freemason symbol? And WHERE is the USA gov located? District of Columbia? (Not even part of the USA!). How much more blatant can ya get? The "Fed" runs a pyramid scheme called the free marketeers. If you're using the "federal reserve note" certificates, or using no-other-living-thing-on-the-planet entitles of ownership, you're bought into a servitude/slavery con/sham... called capitalism. Pyramiding 101. Larry "Wingnut" Wendlandt MaStars - Mothers Against Stuff That Ain't Right (anti-capitalism-ists) Bessemer MI USA Hi

You DO see the pyramid scheme symbol on the back of the USA one dollar bill, right? You DO see the servitude infestation in capitalism, right? And do you see the “pay up or lose your wellbeing” Chicago mob-like felony extortion widespread within capitalism? Do you see the “join or starve” felony extortion done to the 18 year olds… by this ugly competer’s church called capitalism? See how forcing competer’s religions onto 18 year olds… kills membership in the cooperator’s church (Christianity/socialism)?? Do you understand that AmWay (American Way) (New World Order) got “the exclusive” (legal tender) on the TYPE of survival coupons (money) accepted in supply depots (stores) and leverages 18 year olds into the organization via that felony activity as well? (It puts AmWay-coupon slaving requirements called price tags… on all the survival goods). Do you understand how farmyard pyramids work… from your childhood?? Remember?? Upper 1/3 are “heads in the clouds” while the kids on the bottom ALWAYS GET HURT from the weight of the world’s knees in their backs? Still with me? Do you see anything illegal, immoral, or just plain sick… in any of this pyramid scheme’s activities?

Us American Christian socialists are still patiently awaiting the natural fall of the pyramid-o-servitude, or the busting of the free marketeers felony… by the USA Dept of Justice. Us Christians are VERY CLOSE to issuing a cease and desist order until the servitude and inequality goes away… which means it turns into a commune. Commune is a word we LOVE when used in the word “community”… but its one the caps HATE when used in the term “commune-ism”. Go fig. PROGRAMMED!!

Do a Google IMAGE SEARCH for ‘pyramid of capitalist’ to see a full color picture made way back in 1911, when capitalism was first discovered to be a con/sham instigated by the Free Masons/Illuminati. Folks sure bought into the thing… hook, line, and sinker just the same. The caps didn’t even check if a string was attached! Now THAT’S easy fishing, eh?

Time to level the felony pyramid scheme called capitalism. Abolish economies and ownershipism worldwide, and hurry. Economies just cause rat-racing, and rat-racing causes felony pyramiding. BUST IT, America! Look to the USA military supply/survival system… (and the USA public library system) for socialism and morals done right. Equal, owner-less, money-less, bill-less, timecard-less, and concerned with growth of value-criteria OTHER THAN money-value. Quit doing monetary discrimination immediately, and make it illegal. There are MANY measurement criteria of “value”… not just dollars. Try morals, efficiency, discrimination-levels, repairability, etc etc. Economies are cancerous tumors, and to cheer for their growth… is just insane. Profiting causes inflation, so if caps LIKE inflation, and if they LIKE a terrible time in afterlife when they meet the planet’s ORIGINAL OWNER before caps tried to squat it all with ownershipism, then keep it up with the felony pyramiding. I dare you. While us Christians are finally bulldozing that pyramid scheme back to level, lets make servitude and “join or starve” (get a job or die) illegal in the USA, and lets level the architecture seen in USA courtrooms, too. Right now, USA courtrooms are church simulators or “fear chambers”, by special design. Sick.

Isn’t that back-of-the-dollar pyramid… a Columbian freemason symbol? And WHERE is the USA gov located? District of Columbia? (Not even part of the USA!). How much more blatant can ya get? The “Fed” runs a pyramid scheme called the free marketeers. If you’re using the “federal reserve note” certificates, or using no-other-living-thing-on-the-planet entitles of ownership, you’re bought into a servitude/slavery con/sham… called capitalism. Pyramiding 101.

Larry “Wingnut” Wendlandt
MaStars – Mothers Against Stuff That Ain’t Right
(anti-capitalism-ists)
Bessemer MI USA

]]> By: Rory http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/another-non-argument-for-the-failure-of-capitalism/comment-page-1/#comment-692 Rory Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:25:12 +0000 http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/?p=2188#comment-692 On this topic: Am I right in thinking that 'flexibility' is actually good? What it means, if I understand, is that it is easier for labour to move around. It doesn't just mean bad workers can be fired easily, but that good workers (or workers that just weren't suited at one place of employment) can easily be picked up elsewhere. On this topic: Am I right in thinking that ‘flexibility’ is actually good? What it means, if I understand, is that it is easier for labour to move around. It doesn’t just mean bad workers can be fired easily, but that good workers (or workers that just weren’t suited at one place of employment) can easily be picked up elsewhere.

]]> By: Santiago Chavez http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/another-non-argument-for-the-failure-of-capitalism/comment-page-1/#comment-691 Santiago Chavez Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:47:59 +0000 http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/?p=2188#comment-691 "Whos the guiltiest man in this room" “Whos the guiltiest man in this room”

]]> By: Halelly Azulay http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/another-non-argument-for-the-failure-of-capitalism/comment-page-1/#comment-687 Halelly Azulay Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:07:06 +0000 http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/?p=2188#comment-687 Hi, I just wanted to raise your awareness to an article that I learned about today that ARC would probably want to vocally oppose: http://tiny.cc/jpx1V This article basically proposes that humans are irrational and need 'nudges' from leaders to make better choices. I blogged a rebuttal on my blog: http://bit.ly/10GlFb And linked to it via the comments section to that article. It's horrific. Hi,
I just wanted to raise your awareness to an article that I learned about today that ARC would probably want to vocally oppose:
http://tiny.cc/jpx1V
This article basically proposes that humans are irrational and need ‘nudges’ from leaders to make better choices.

I blogged a rebuttal on my blog:
http://bit.ly/10GlFb

And linked to it via the comments section to that article.
It’s horrific.

]]> By: Daniel Wisehart http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/another-non-argument-for-the-failure-of-capitalism/comment-page-1/#comment-686 Daniel Wisehart Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:33:20 +0000 http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/?p=2188#comment-686 Hello Mr. Scialabba, I enjoyed your article, right up to the end. And then you closed with "we have been abandoning it." That grammatical form suggests that we are done abandoning it, which, unfortunately, I do not think is true. If you had said "because we continue to abandon it" or simply, "because we are abandoning it", I would agree with you completely. The Institute is making wonderful strides at bringing rational discourse to the culture, but I do not think we can yet say we have turned the direction of this country to the point where we are no longer abandoning freedom. An argument can be made that we have abandoned more economic freedom in the past year than at any time in the past 35 years. Regards, Daniel Wisehart Hello Mr. Scialabba,

I enjoyed your article, right up to the end. And then you closed with “we have been abandoning it.” That grammatical form suggests that we are done abandoning it, which, unfortunately, I do not think is true. If you had said “because we continue to abandon it” or simply, “because we are abandoning it”, I would agree with you completely.

The Institute is making wonderful strides at bringing rational discourse to the culture, but I do not think we can yet say we have turned the direction of this country to the point where we are no longer abandoning freedom. An argument can be made that we have abandoned more economic freedom in the past year than at any time in the past 35 years.

Regards,
Daniel Wisehart

]]> By: James Peterson http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/another-non-argument-for-the-failure-of-capitalism/comment-page-1/#comment-683 James Peterson Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:18:15 +0000 http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/?p=2188#comment-683 Ayn Rand demanded that every claim have a 'real' standard by which its rationality can be measured. In the case of Capitalism that standard is the voluntary productive relationship between a man and a woman. Ayn Rand demanded that every claim have a ‘real’ standard by which its rationality can be measured. In the case of Capitalism that standard is the voluntary productive relationship between a man and a woman.

]]> By: Michael Fitzgibbon http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/another-non-argument-for-the-failure-of-capitalism/comment-page-1/#comment-681 Michael Fitzgibbon Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:51:44 +0000 http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/?p=2188#comment-681 Norris's article is nothing less than infuriating. He is factually incorrect. April figures have been published, and the Euro-Area unemployment rate is 9.2%, still higher than the United States' 8.9%, although marginally. He further neglects decades of better employment statistics in the United States and provides a critique based solely on a snapshot taking at the worst possible moment. He credits the "safety nets" of European countries, but these "safety nets" are the very programs that reduce European competitiveness, increase prices and create persistent unemployment. These programs are nothing to be proud of or to emulate. More interestingly, he does not refer to the programs by their proper names - "social safety nets". It's like he is arguing against Capitalism but very purposely leaves out the term "socialism". It's a very insidious approach. Norris’s article is nothing less than infuriating. He is factually incorrect. April figures have been published, and the Euro-Area unemployment rate is 9.2%, still higher than the United States’ 8.9%, although marginally. He further neglects decades of better employment statistics in the United States and provides a critique based solely on a snapshot taking at the worst possible moment. He credits the “safety nets” of European countries, but these “safety nets” are the very programs that reduce European competitiveness, increase prices and create persistent unemployment. These programs are nothing to be proud of or to emulate. More interestingly, he does not refer to the programs by their proper names – “social safety nets”. It’s like he is arguing against Capitalism but very purposely leaves out the term “socialism”. It’s a very insidious approach.

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