- Capitalism and Alternatives -

Such prodigious chattering!

Posted by: Stoller on October 21, 1999 at 12:03:32:

In Reply to: The hat is tipped. posted by Dr. Cruel on October 20, 1999 at 00:59:07:


: Competitors aim at success. A cheetah wants to catch and eat a gazelle; the gazelle strives to avoid this eventuality. So also, the businessman wishes to accumulate wealth, the consumer to get the goods.

Crude, absurd biological determinism! Could there be any significant difference between the 'labor' of animals and the labor of human? Well, there's the creation of tools, for one thing...

: Competition does seem to favor an increase in excellence, however.

So does selection---in the archaic Social Darwinism you favor. Yet capitalism continually reproduces the 'unfit,' the 'inferior' in the form of the low-skill proletariat (or 'parasite' according to Ayn Rand) because capitalists must always have lots of low-skill wage workers to do their bidding! It's perpetuation of the unfittest really. So much for the ridiculous comparison to Darwinism...

Well, I could go on with more of your improbable points but I'll take a tip from Ayn Rand and insist that because your central premises are crap, there's no point in going on correcting your endlessly proliferating assumptions...

BTW, what ever happened to this post? I would think such a prodigious chatterer like yourself would respond to rebuttals...


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