Reply #22: America or France, the capitalist system cannot last much longer. [View All]

[reprobate]

I believe that the system as it exists now holds the seeds of it's own destruction. The capital system as intended worked well for a time. At the start the enterprise was run by the person or people who started it, and then offered shares in the enterprise to raise capital for growth. T his allowed expansion and helped both the workers (including the owners) by selling more and increasing profits and salaries, and the consumer by offering more diverse products, increasing quality, and lowering prices thru competition.

The corporation was invented to limit the liability of the owners (the stockholders). This was the beginning of the germination of the seeds of destruction of the system. It thru up an artificial barrier, creating a management class and a worker class, separating them forever. In reality, management or labor they are all employees of the stockholder, but the manager has the power.

Human nature being what it is, management has turned the rules around so that it's compensation is far out of proportion to it's contribution. It's main goal has become the hunt for power and money. It has lost the original connection it had with labor, so labor has become just another resource to be used for management's gain.

The end result is a two class system. Wealthy managers and wage slaves. This is nowhere as apparent as in the United States, but it is spreading around the world, wherever the system gains a foothold, it's poisonous seeds germinate and grow, creating casts and turning the worker against the manager.

Eventually the universe will seek balance. Since workers outnumber the management class by billions, the result will and must be the overturning of the system in favor of one more in balance, which will reward work more fairly.

The only question now is whether that change will come by words or by guns.