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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor
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Yeah, our becoming the world's largest economy is only because of a set of ideals. It had nothing to do with Europe and Asia's infrastructure being decimated during World War II while ours was left almost 100% intact, giving us a 15-20 year head start on the post war industrial age. It has nothing to do with the amount of natural resources we have or the amount of arable land available on our continent.
It's all because of these ideals that you cling to like a religion.
Jesus Christ dude, I can agree that there are good things about capitalism and the free enterprise system, but you worship at the altar like capitalism is Jehovah and you're a witness. Quit drinking the kool-aid for a minute and realize that there are other possible reasons for our proseperity besides capitalism and that in some cases there are better ways to do things than leave them to the free market.
If you're not willing to do that then you've obviously detached yourself from all logic in order to cling to an ideology, and it's pointless to discuss things with a person who won't respond to reason or logic.
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i don't worship anything. i think there is good and bad in all economic and political systems. in our case, i simply believe that hands off, on the whole,.. produces more good than bad. i can't say its free from "bad" and certainly don't believe that.
california... a single US State is the worlds 5th largest economy.. that has nothing to do with asia, hitler or anything else. it has to do with the creation of wealth. the fact 98% of countries in the world lag behind a single state has nothing to do with "head starts" anymore than Africas failure as a continent has anything to do with not being impacted by the war at all.
the only people that are so dismissive of these notions are those who have never created any amount of wealth themselves.