-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 December 2001 07:23 pm, Jim Choate wrote:
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Matt Beland wrote:
Capitalism is a meritocracy. *Commerce* is simply a label for that class of activities that include all forms of resource transfer from one entity (person, company, nation, world) to another. Some of those are meritocracies, such as capitalism. Others are not - true communism is one example, almost any form of "planned economy", welfare.
Communism can't be a form of Capitalism. In fact they are the anti-thesis.
Would you mind sticking to the topic? I did not say Communism was a form of Capitalism, I said Capitalism and Communism were both forms of Commerce.
Actually capitalism is the belief that it's the ONLY mechanism to solve problems.
No. The belief that capitalism is the only mechanism to solve problems is philosophy, not commerce, and pretty bad philosophy at that.
That IS the problem, that is also the difference between 'commerce' and 'capitalism'.
Are you learning impaired?
In commerce, trade is the means that people use to protect themselves and provide for themselves. Capitalism is the use of money to manage the society. Not the same thing at all. 'commerce' is a means, 'capitalism' is an end.
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