Well, I didn't invent the term capitalism. It seems to me that your
situation either doesn't reflect capitalism, doesn't depend on capitalism, or
mutated capitalism to be something else.
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 01:25:11PM -0800, Stede Troisi wrote:
>
> --- Sean Gilbertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > Capitalism is defined as "an economic system based
> > on private ownership of capital," so capitalism
> > itself as defined that way bears no requirement of
> > employee hierarchy.
>
> Makes sense to me.
>
> Now, if you are a single mother working at Starbucks
> in New York making $5.25 an hour and you expenses are
> $5.26 an hour how do you acquire private ownership of
> capital?
>
> If Starbucks offshores their entire IT department to
> India and saves millions will the single mother then
> be able to acquire private ownership of capital?
>
> In fact in the most basic
> > sense, the employees do own the company.
>
> Explain that to the single mother working at Starbucks
> in New York making $5.25 an hour.
>
> Stede
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