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Gray Phoenix said:However, no other system has brought so much good to so many people.
I think that the material benefits of capitalism are just a nice side effect. I feel leary of the argument that capitalism is moral because it is the best for the most people.
What if a system could be devised that would lift 99 percent of the population to near god- like status by enslaving one percent? Would that not be the most good to the most people?
I think that to be moral all members of society must be treated, if not equally fair, then equally unfair. Life is not fair- so no system can be everything to everybody. But I do not like the idea of a system where someone(s) has force over others built into the system.
No one person or group of people should have power over another and capitalism seems to be the best way to safeguard that as an economic system.