Everyone loves capitalism when the capitalist are reaping in the money. Its when the capitalist start to trample on the average Joe is when the democracy kicks in and helps out by balancing it with government regulation. That's what happen with John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan. The EPA, labor laws, and Unions helped shape the country that we live into today by showing those men and other presidents and CEO's that you can not trample on the average Joe anymore. Sometimes they take it to far with their Unions and ask for too much (I.E. pensions and what not, along with unemployment benefits).
But in the grand scheme of things America has the better end of the stick. We have a slower much more controllable growth where China on the other hand can only sustain so much growth before it starts to slow down and then...
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Originally Posted by akv
Too many people, to little arable land, massive income gap, it's a perpetual powder keg.
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