What ' s So Great About Capitalism?

 There has been a lot of talk in recent times about how great socialism is and how evil capitalism is. In spite of the fact that at least hundred million people have died under socialist regimes trying to make this impossible economic model work, its proponents claim that it has never been tried and that it will work if done correctly. Capitalism, on the other hand, is viewed by many as a tool of exploitation following Marx ' s model of the oppressor and oppressed. In this worldview the oppressors are the bourgeoisie, the middle class that owns property, while the oppressed are the landless working class.Marx actually had the concept partially right, but his solution was backwards. The goal for cultural and economic improvement among any class should not be to overthrow the property owners and construct a society without private property. Instead, the goal should be to make everyone an owner of private property. Here ' s how that works.In the bad old days, when the years had only three digits instead of four, real estate property as well as wealth property (money and portable wealth) was in the hands of very few people. Everybody else worked the land as farmers or plowmen, or perhaps blacksmiths or servants to the rich, who were the owners of everything. The serfs, servants, tenants, and other workers had no power and no possessions.Gradually, however, the tenants began to acquire property. Even a small amount of land allowed these former day laborers a place to put down...
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