Gerald Butts stokes the fires of racism

[Miss Hunter]

Having a currency, instead of just bartering, is superior, IMO. This is what allows citizens who genuinely want to work for their money prosper.

I do think methods to protect and care for severely mentally ill, the disabled and the seniors should be in place. But hard working citizens shouldn't be giving the rich, entitled, or the lazy citizens who are capable of working a free ride.

The problem is How do we define and categorize who the needy are?! There are many who will fake it, or have enough resources to lobby the government to recieve the handouts that are better spent elsewhere .

 

[Miss Hunter]

I'll refer back to the Catholic Church Covid payout...(you can google it, its too absurd for me to post here) what a joke.

A perfect example of all what's wrong with the world...

 

[appleomac]

If exchange for goods isn't capitalism, what, by your definition, is capitalism?

Capitalism is about private ownership, in particular private ownership of productive resources (more commonly referred to as the "means of production"). Fundamentally that's all capitalism is really about.

 

[Miss Hunter]

Capitalism is about private ownership, in particular private ownership of productive resources (more commonly referred to as the "means of production"). Fundamentally that's all capitalism is really about.

I have no issues with private ownership, do you?

 

[appleomac]

I have no issues with private ownership, do you?

It depends. For most people the answer is "it depends." Generally no one has a problem that Starbucks and Timmies and Waves and Second Cup are privately owned and compete for our coffee budgets. But most people would not want that same thing happening in let's say hospitals/healthcare. Canadians pay more for cell phone service than pretty much any other 1st world country, there's private ownership in teleco's but not enough competition - maybe we need more capitalism (i.e. competition) in the wireless sector. Yet some say we need government to step in and force the telco's to lower their prices, or some even want the government to step in and start a cellphone company to create that competition. Private ownership all the time is never the answer, generally. But public ownership all the time is also never the answer, generally. It all depends!