The anecdote used by Schweickart really piqued my interest. The poor dwarfs are unimaginably down-and-out and outnumbered the exclusive, elite, super-wealthy giants. And that was only in the States. How can this happen?
Capitalism.
The nature of the system itself, although deemed by many beneficial, is causing the ever expanding gorge between the rich and poor. It’s totally ridiculous to see the facts and figures of American’s income. Capitalism encouraged profit making, in the term of M-C-M’, which means money is used to make commodity that could be sell for more money which is also known as profit.
The problem is that whenever ‘giant’ company adepts to capitalism. The competitive nature of capitalism is healthy, but it will make any new company or business gone quickly out of the ‘profit-making’ race. Those ‘giants’ can easily suppress any other small competition so that they could gain a steady profit, and even more. This means that small business to expand is very hard in this competitive world, unless they are backed up by some capitalist company. If this goes on, ‘giants’ would become ever gigantic and ‘dwarfs’ could be the next smallest thing to bacteria.
If we carefully register the above situation into our daily lives, we can see that almost all kind of business nowadays is a ‘suppressing market’, capitalism style. Everyone raced to make profit in almost whatever means they could get their hands on, including dirty tricks. Blackmailing, breach of trust and backstabbing could become a common thing to gain superiority in capitalism and economy.
How could we stop capitalism? How should I know? I am not an economist. Capitalism had managed to make its way to the deep roots of the human’s life that it seemed like impossible to destroy it. It is like a tumor. Ever expanding, ever destroying. Abolishing capitalism is like destroying the global economy itself. There is nothing that we could do, the ‘giants’ ever growing, the ‘dwarfs’ ever dying.
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yeah, i totally agree with Asyraq that it is ridiculous to see the facts and figures of American's income. it is so sad to see this situation as the poor gets poorer and the rich gets more richer. but the worst thing is to see how much the poor work hard for living but only had little while the rich only lay back, relax and gets what they dont deserve to. i like to imagine being in people shoes. it is amusing for the fact that the analogy made by Schweickart of giant and dwarfs are true! its really fine to have healthy competition but i really dont think its a healthy one know.some human, what what i know, when he always get something that he wants,becomes greedy eventually.nowadays, it is not impossible to think that companies will do everyways including the bad ways to get to their goals;more money.people are getting meaner in these days.where is the love??
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