Thread: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory 2012. History repeats itself.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

We live in a capitalistic economic system and it's all about the guy who goes out and risks it all on a business or investment or a corporation. They should get to keep everything they earn because of the risks involved. Everyone else who takes the easy way out working for someone else, well...they're just a bunch of slugs who should be happy to earn what their boss feels like giving them. They should be taxed to death to support the country cause they took the easy way out.


That's what many would say.

LMAO Where does this guy Many live? I think we need to seriously talk! You know we really need an emoticon of a pot being stirred for these occasions.

Bob

Historically, if you are a true capitalist and conservative that is the way you think.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Historically, if you are a true capitalist and conservative that is the way you think.

I agree. It is a darwinian outlook. Survival of the fittest. Non hackers are to fall by the wayside and no pity in the naked city.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxMh8qJkTl0

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Historically, if you are a true capitalist and conservative that is the way you think.

Historically true/pure Capitalism as with true/pure Communism have never really existed, at least not for very long. Most of what I see around the world are various combinations of the two. You need only look to China's emergence as a force in modern trade for a, so far, highly successful combining of the two.

It almost reminds me of the old saying that mutts make the healthiest dogs compared to purebreds. Funny how working the compromises and adjusting to meet new circumstances seems bring the best results rather than sticking solely to some one sided dogma or other.

Bob

Originally Posted by BobH

Historically true/pure Capitalism as with true/pure Communism have never really existed, at least not for very long. Most of what I see around the world are various combinations of the two. You need only look to China's emergence as a force in modern trade for a, so far, highly successful combining of the two.

It almost reminds me of the old saying that mutts make the healthiest dogs compared to purebreds. Funny how working the compromises and adjusting to meet new circumstances seems bring the best results rather than sticking solely to some one sided dogma or other.

Bob

Hey, my Dogs Ma resents that remark. She says send the mutt up to Northern Canada and see how long it survives. (She's a Husky).

That's the problem with Huskies, they are just too sensative.

Bob

Oh, SNAP!!!

The law, in it's majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.

Anatole France

Maybe Charlie Dickens had it right in Oliver Twist, "the law is an ass". Well, at least some of the time anyway.

Bob

Unions have been worse to me than any company I ever worked for.

That's what I will say.