Is Capitalism Sustainable?
the basis of capitalism. And Americans are trained from an early age to be capitalists. However, after two centuries of intense grooming into capitalists, the American public finds itself at a crossroad. For the first time ever, America can see the consequences of its capitalist ideals. America and her leaders have taken note of the shocking data pouring in. Al Gore presented alarming data in his film, “An Inconvenient Truth”, about the capacity of the planet to sustain the global economy. Indeed, he shows quite clearly that the planet’s current ecology can not continue to sustain the increasing demands of the current economy. But what lies at the root of the problem? It all goes back to the capitalist motivations of risk and reward. Behind the idea of risk and reward there is an ugly vice, an inherent greed. When a man goes to market he brings along this vice. “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
These two stimuli produce all motivations for American business. It is the basis of capitalism. And Americans are trained from an early age to be capitalists. However, after two centuries of intense grooming into capitalists, the American public finds itself at a crossroad. For the first time ever, America can see the consequences of its capitalist ideals. America and her leaders have taken note of the shocking data pouring in. Al Gore presented alarming data in his film, “An Inconvenient Truth”, about the capacity of the planet to sustain the global economy. Indeed, he shows quite clearly that the planet’s current ecology can not continue to sustain the increasing demands of the current economy. But what lies at the root of the problem? It all goes back to the capitalist motivations of risk and reward. Behind the idea of risk and reward there is an ugly vice, an inherent greed. When a man goes to market he brings along this vice. “He intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in
