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From: Paul Lewiarz
T1: LewiarzP1@alpha.montclair.edu
Date: 10/21/99
Time: 12:33:15 PM
Remote Name: 130.68.51.55
Yes, I agree with everything that you say. I think that the workers are the ones who are left out of a capitalist economy and clearly the ones who benefit are as you say, "the fat cats living in million dollar compounds in the Hampton's." This is true, most people will never be able to live in a million dollar house because the laws of a capitalist economy dictate that everyone is in a free for all for themselves. This is the very reason that people like Bill Gates can accumulate 80 billion dollar's!
But it certainly does not make it right. I think that the most beneficial economic system might be a communist system with industrial parameters in place to help support all the people. So I definitely agree with everything that you have to say. I also think that the war in Vietnam showed the class system in America very clearly. All the poor kids were drafted and went to war and the rich middle class kids stayed home. Now this is clearly unjust and shows capitalism to be the ugly beast that it is.
A system that does not respect the people living within its borders is not a system worth supporting. I also agree with you when you say that nothing will change as long as these huge corporations are making huge profits and furthermore they are being supported by the government to which we pay our taxes to!
The whole system is an ugly chain of events which are designed for the people with the capital and resources. Just look at the people who occupy the vast military personal in this country. The military contractors make all the money of war and their business is clearly to make war. So the more war the make, the more the people running the system benefit.
This has been the case in every war fought by America since the Korean War. But clearly the people who suffered the most during these wars were the ones fighting in them not the owners of defense contractors who were making the profit of off people's misery and grief. This is the very essence of this economy that people fail to understand and as long as they fail to understand this basic tenant, things will never change.
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