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In reply to the discussion: Democratic Socialist [View all]ronnie624
(5,764 posts)holding out for the day that they, themselves, may one day be 'rich'.
But alas, the Laws of Thermodynamics will not allow everyone to be 'rich'. Capitalism is inherently illogical and unsustainable, because the Law of Conservation of Energy and Mass says that a thermodynamic system, like a corporation or a factory, can never produce more than the initial investment of stored energy (resources) and available energy (labor). If the stored energy is receiving a disproportionately greater return than the available energy, it does so at the expense of laborers through substandard wages and benefits. Capitalism also incentives and promotes consumerism, thereby wasting resources and polluting our biosphere. This is not a system that can distribute resources, goods and services in an equitable manner, provide economic stability, drive necessary technological innovation and enable us to mitigate the coming hardships for our civilization in the form of resource depletion and global climate change.
If people were properly educated in science, mathematics and rational thinking, and genuine democracy actually held sway, Capitalism would not even exist at all.