The problem with capitalism is if you can find a way to make money, you can. It doesn't matter if you are furthering or bettering society while you do it. Competition between capitalists can result in faulty, dangerous, even deadly products that do no real good but supply the perceived need. Or, as we've found out recently, that competition can blow a big ass hole in the nations economy.
Take pharmaceutical corporations. Half (or more) of the crap they put out to market now are flat out dangerous or create a lifelong dependency on a particular drug. Why do they still offer it to the public? Because so much money is invested that they have to turn a profit to keep their doors open and their accounts in the black. When medication is approved for public use, it only has to pass 2 clinical trials. That sounds fine until you realize that those were only 2 out of possibly 100 or more failed trials. That is a 2% success rate on something that people are staking their well being or even their lives on. If it weren't for the profit motive, those products would be developed much further and have a much higher success rate before being shipped out for consumption.
Same thing with food. Corporate farms are nasty, dirty, growth hormone saturated pits of despair. Plainly put, today's commercial meat is unhealthy shit. Why? Profit. Take the need for profit out and the farms grow larger, cleaner, healthier, and give people things to do. And it would be done properly.
Nobody needs a $30 million dollar home and a fleet of cars. Why would you? Its just something to spend your money on because you've got nothing better to do with it. And yes, if you want a house that damn big, you best get to building.
This is a material world, and its got our values upside down and backwards. We spend so much time chasing what we want that we forget or ignore what we need. The "American Dream" is a bullshit ploy to get us to work hard for somebody else, get paid, then turn right around and give that money to another somebody else for shit we don't need. The average American is nothing more than a middle man in a very elaborate money exchange program.
The fda (goverment ) is the biggest problem with farming,ranching and the drug market
who knows the name of the person who runs the fda?
who elected them?
I have always felt the fda is as corrupt as the day is long
Now as far as what people need
I'm sure you know what you need.
But I prefer to decide for myself what I need
what I need to survive,and what I need to be happy are 2 different things
what I need isnt a 30million dollar home
I need a 300,000 dollar boat
I dont know what my neibor need,maybe it is a 30million dollar home.
But its not each of us to decide.
The amish could live without any money,but there are some things they
need I guess that requires money.
some people needs require more money than others
I need a rc,a tv,a watch,telephone,ect,ect,ect.
maybe you dont,maybe you dont need a car,maybe your fine riding a bike
we each have different levels of what will satisfy us.
