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[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Jeme" == Jeme A Brelin <jeme at brelin.net> writes:

Jeme> Capitalists are those who exploit the labor of others for profit.  They
Jeme> believe that the value of an item is the greatest price at which a buyer
Jeme> can be found.  That's greedy.

Hmm.  Sounds like you've been on the wrong end of that equation far too
often, or you have a narrow view of capitalist.

Without introducing emotion-laden words like "exploit", let's call it:

    Capitalists produce products and services using labor and raw goods,
    motivated by the profit made as the difference between what they buy
    the labor and raw goods and what they can sell it for in a fair
    market.

The difference between the leaders in a capitalist and socialist
society is that a capitalist is motivated by money (which buys power),
and a socialist is motivated by power.

Other than that, there's really no difference.  Both lead to corruption.

There's nothing inherently wrong with motivation, or power, or money,
or buying and selling on an open market.  And I find it hard to not
laugh when the people who most claim that "capitalists are evil" are
the same ones that argue for collective bargaining and unions, which
is just a different form of corruption, manipulating the supply/demand
curve on the labor side rather than the finished goods/services
side. :)

I'm for full disclosure and a free market, in case it's not obvious.
I'll trade my two chickens for your pig.  Please keep the government
out of that.

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