Quote Originally Posted by crouton976 View Post
I have to say, I think that the meme below describes and illustrates capitalism in it's purist form, and at the same time illustrates why it has become perverted and "failed".

I do not think capitalism is bad, in fact, I think it's the best system out there, if not perverted.
Uh...No.
Just no. Money is NOT capitalism; it's just money. Money in some form exists in almost every culture in which trade evolves beyond gift/barter economies. Money is a means of transformation.

Capitalism would be if he needed more money than he could make just trading a few oranges to buy a larger field, equipment, hire hands et cetera and Agent Smith there gave him the money in exchange for a return on investment -- in its purest form a contractual cut of the profits.

Everyone keeps redefining capitalism to give themselves an excuse to hate it...yeesh!