Quote Originally Posted by crouton976 View Post
Dude, relax that was just an old Internet joke.

For it to truly be capitalism the farmer would have to reinvest the profit back into his Grove repeating the process over and over again. The investor in your scenario can indeed be the farmer. It doesn't have to come from an outside source.
Sorry. I do take this too seriously; if you look in my first post in this thread you'll see why: seeing investors running scared makes making my dreams come true harder to do. I hate seeing investors treated poorly because "they're the 1%" when I need them as do a lot of people with big schemes and no money to spare.

Sadly, most people blaming capitalism for all our ills are doing so by oversimplifying WHAT capitalism is.

And yes, the farmer could indeed reinvest and that would be capitalism... but without some means to buy the farm in the first place he'd have never gotten started. That's where I am and why I take this so seriously and get so frustrated by people blaming a system that works for all their problems when in fact the issues were caused by things entirely tangential to the problem (even Soviet Russia had a banking system, central banking is not capitalism!).

I apologize for ruining your joke. I CAN see the humor in it.