Capitalism, as an economic system, by definition, gives "control of the means of production" (i.e., control of all aspects of commerce and economic well-being) to the capital investor. Who, naturally, seeks only to maximize the profit returned on the capital invested. It is literally; systematized greed. People who already have more money than they need are being given the power to use that money to capture even more money that they don't need, by taking it away from those who don't have enough, or just barely have enough to live on. It empowers greed. It rewards greed. It justifies greed as the primary motive of every commercial interaction turning commerce into exploitation.
We've heard your rather extreme ideological position*
before, and you did not address what I asked, but
never mind.
Being from a place that was among the crown jewels
of the the British Empire, and one who has benefited
greatly from their having been there (they still are, of
course, in a corporate sort of way) I have my own
views on colonialism, capitalism, and what you
call "greed".
Far fewer have emigrated to the country of their
colonial oppressors from HK than have from
other places, but of course, Britain betrayed
trust by not permitting many to do so in the
years leading up to July 1 1997.
And, I guess, fewer had as much reason to,
than from say, Pakistan or other S Asian,
African, or middle eastern "countries". Quotation
marks supplied re the borders being drawn
by colonial powers.
I suppose you could say with no small truth that
it is capitalism that made America and Europe
rich by draining off the world's resources and
leaving other peoples in chaos and poverty.
I guess i dont see capitalism as an ideology,
but as an organization tool, one among others
that could have been used. The Spaniards who
stole all that gold and silver were not capitalists.
Do you have some system in mind that will provide
what people need, keep the earth from dying, and
so forth?
*
greed as the primary motive of every commercial "
"all aspects of commerce and economic well-being"
ETA- do not look for what is not there, some specific
point being made.