In a message dated Sat, 3 Aug 2002 2:00:11 AM Eastern Standard Time Mike Pritchard writes:
> "errr, actually, no, capitalism is fundamentally based > on the extraction of profit from someone else's > labour, and therefore is not even theoretically good. Well I don't know about that statement. While it's true that capitalism is based on the profit derived from someone else's labor, how is that "not even theoretically good?" You can peel it down to the idea that the laborer is trading their sweat for money. I can't weave, I don't have a farm; what's left for me to trade but my smarts and muscle? Although exploitation isn't good at all, I don't think that it is that the action of using labor to get profits is the problem per se. It's the application of pure theory onto human beings. Some of whom may be wickedly inclined, some of whom may be saintly good and most of whom are somewhere else along the bell curve. You can rile against the exploitation of labor within the idea of capitalism but truth be told, that exploitation takes place within just about any political/economical practical application. And probably always will until humans can achieve a kind of nirvana of living and loving the golden rule. (treating others as you would like to be treated, not the other kind of golden. (:-D ). Anyhow, at least that is how I see it. MG - wondering how early is too early to go out and mow the lawn.....
