03-18-2010, 02:47 PM
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there's no $$$ in porn
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Originally Posted by CosmicTang
Interesting take on it.
Here's the rub though: Capitalism tends to commodify everything up to and including people. So while you can say that we should not be able to grant certain commodities or services to people for free I can say that certain things should not be commodified.
Should clean air and water be commodified? Should health care? Should people?
The profit motive is a wonderful servant and is useful in that role. When it becomes the master, as it clearly has, it becomes a tyrant and counterproductive to society.
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Might wanna read "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith;
" By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was not part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. It is an affectation, indeed, not very common among merchants, and very few words need be employed in dissuading them from it." |
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