Yossarian...........Capaltism has always been with us in one form or another, then we had Communism which sounded fine, especially for the Communist leaders who never went short of any thing, but did it work for the people or the have not's, I think not
You can privatize the share holders from party members to business leaders, what turns the wheels will always be the masses, what takes in all those benifit's will almost never concern the same party that creates it.
This is our nature, unless an asteroid strikes tommorow, I don't ever seeing this changing.
Someone else stated that the progression to capitalism took thousands of years,
Same rules in my opinion of how we view of form of trade today, in time, we may look at today's system *the best for
today's terms*. But may be outpaced or looked at as primitive by future generations.
You can knock all other systems for misallocation of wealth, their defenition of wealth or how "wealth" is created, but no human system of exchange has ever been equal, and I doubt it ever will.
I honestly feel our system of banking, and our views of currency that represents nothing these days is abolutely ridiculous.
We live in a world where a factory can build guns and make butter, but it's represented by electronic wealth, by an idea, a term typed into a computer.
Often by an entity that is no more Federalized than Federal Express.
This is how we trade, I wouldn't trust a strangers word on value, why should I trust this?